A building family lives in the basement in Toronto’s Roncesvalles neighbourhood while renovations continue above
“Okay, I got it,” said Tom Knezic’s neighbour. “You’re going to live up and build down, and then live down and build up, and then live up and rent down.” And that’s when Mr. Knezic, co-founder of sustainability experts Solares Architecture Inc., knew he had explained the concept correctly.
Today, that side yard sports a very wide concrete stair down to a cheerful, two-bedroom basement apartment that Mr. Knezic and Ms. Lolley, their 12- and 10-year-old, and Ginger the guinea pig, all call home while a frenzy of construction happens, literally, right over their heads. But, because of “overkill” on soundproofing, things have been kept to a dull roar: “I think it’s really important to throw money and effort at the sound separation because that’s what really drives people crazy.
“I was trying to figure this out, because the structure is different,” says Mr. Knezic as he points to the place where the two buildings meet. “And there’re multiple bearing walls … and you could tell that [one of them] was older.” In all, Mr. Knezic says it took 10 months to ready the basement for occupancy when “you could almost have done the whole house in 12.” And cost for the basement alone was in the “low 200,000s.” But there wasn’t much choice when tenants were found to fill their old house right around the same time they took possession of this place. So, as Maya Angelou once said: “Ain’t nothing to it but to do it.”
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