House And Home – Urbaneer

A Climate Risk Assessment Tool Is Now Available For Canadian Homebuyers & Homeowners

March 15, 2023

Welcome to my blog on housing, culture, and design! I’m Steve Fudge and I’m celebrating my 31st year as a realtor and property consultant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Although Spring keeps approaching to knock at our doorsteps, it retreats and leaves us with the harshest – and wildest – of…

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Dear Urbaneer: Help Me Create Easy-Breezy Indoor Holiday Sparkle!

November 28, 2022

Design, House And Home

Welcome to this month’s instalment of Dear Urbaneer, where I take questions from my readers and clients regarding all things housing and home. This month, I’m getting seasonal, helping a reader who is looking for some easy ideas to elevate his home during the holiday season – and all winter…

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A Story Of Friendship – Plus Tips & Tricks For A Bedroom Refresh – At The Black House On PEI

February 24, 2022

Design, House And Home, Tales Of Upper Hillsborough

Welcome to a blog on housing, culture and design by a cross-country Canadian and Toronto realtor! If there ever could be ‘good news’ about a global pandemic, it’s having governments confident COVID-related travel restrictions can be relaxed so citizens can travel freely again. Who isn’t looking forward to this? As…

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BLeisure, WFH, & An IKEA Hack

February 11, 2022

Design, House And Home, Tales Of Upper Hillsborough

Welcome to my blog on Canadian real estate, culture and design, with a particular focus on Toronto, Ontario and occasional posts from my Home Away From Home design incubator in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Today I want to tell you about my recent attempt to ‘butch it up’ by tackling…

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Good Fences Make Good Neighbours In Charlottetown, PEI

January 24, 2022

Architecture, Design, House And Home, Landscape, Tales Of Upper Hillsborough

Welcome to my blog on housing, culture and design by a cross-country Canadian and Toronto realtor obsessed with all matters of housing & home. Back in the autumn – my favourite season because I love wearing cable-knit sweaters and jaunty caps, smelling wood burning in a fireplace, and looking at…

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Post-Pandemic Housing Trends To Watch For

August 18, 2021

COVID-19 & Toronto Real Estate, Healthy Home, House And Home

Working in Toronto’s real estate trenches I have the unique vantage point from which to watch the ever-evolving state of architecture, interior, and landscape design, as I get to see what features and fixtures renovators and builders install in their product, and how prospective purchasers respond to it. Yes, our approach to shelter provides us with a…

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Who Wouldn’t Love This Kitchen In The Button Factory At 200 Clinton Street, Toronto?

June 16, 2021

College Street / Little Italy, House And Home

I was showing my listing at The Button Factory – one of the first adaptive reuse conversions I was engaged in back in the mid-1990s – and I had this moment of envy for the future Buyer as I stood in the kitchen of this sun-drenched vintage brick and beam…

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Making A Splash At Home: The Benefits Of A Backyard Oasis

May 18, 2021

House And Home, Real Estate

COVID-19 has altered many things about our lives, but it has most certainly had an impact on real estate – from creating a pandemic-fueled freehold housing market and inciting the profound shift from working-in-office to working-from-home, to escalating desired modifications in our physical home designs (I cover off all of these topics and…

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Dear Urbaneer: Should I Sell My House In As-Is Condition, Upgraded, Or Elevated?

April 28, 2021

Dear Urbaneer, House And Home, Junction / High Park / Bloor West / Swansea, Real Estate, Roncesvalles Village

Welcome to this month’s installment of Dear Urbaneer, where I put aside time each month to share real estate queries from my clients and my advice. This month, I am helping a client who has lived in their home for many years. While she doesn’t’ plan to sell immediately, she does plan…

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Dear Urbaneer: How Do I Renovate A Washroom With Resale In Mind?

September 16, 2020

Dear Urbaneer, House And Home

Welcome to this month’s Dear Urbaneer where I address housing issues, design dilemmas, and real estate endeavours. This month, I’m fielding questions from clients interested in upgrading their 15-year-old washroom in their vintage loft condo without over-improving it. In addition to sharing my opinion on optimizing a washroom for resale, I’ve included…

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