79 Colborne St
Colborne St, Inner Harbour, Kingston, ON, K7K 1C7
Quick Summary
Quick Summary
- Charming downtown townhouse with unique character
- Spacious living and dining rooms with high ceilings
- Fabulous staircase with ornate octagonal newel post
- Gourmet kitchen with large gas fireplace
- Private courtyard for outdoor entertaining
- Three bedrooms on second floor, loft can be fourth
- Potential to finish basement with Churchillian pool table
- Unique architectural details throughout the home
79 Colborne St is beautiful, of course, but not particularly glamorous. It is more glamorous-in-waiting, like the brilliant teenager slumming it in front of a Playstation console (in an old Lou Reed T-shirt). The colours don’t match (the third-floor loft is the colour of a London bus while the laundry nook is lined with the wildest... Show More
79 Colborne St is beautiful, of course, but not particularly glamorous. It is more glamorous-in-waiting, like the brilliant teenager slumming it in front of a Playstation console (in an old Lou Reed T-shirt). The colours don’t match (the third-floor loft is the colour of a London bus while the laundry nook is lined with the wildest Florida lime), and the flooring involves a looking-glass sort of checkerboard as well as thick coral shag-pile in a bedroom or two. It is a forgotten bag of liquorice all-sorts, a mixed load of laundry. Which is to say that you will likely fall in love immediately with this downtown townhouse, and then tease from it an altogether brilliant third act. The living and dining rooms are but high-ceilinged escorts to the fabulous staircase, its octagonal newel post like something plundered from a Victorian gambling den. There is a gas fireplace in the kitchen with the wingspan of Pavarotti, and beyond that a courtyard where you surely negotiate the end of wars, the start of an affair. You park your Bugatti back there, or the horses you had grazing all morning at McBurney Park. There are three bedrooms on the second floor and the loft can be a fourth, with its own ensuite, as if the plan all along was to both rise above the fray and ride out the apocalypse. I’d finish the basement too, and install a Churchillian pool table beneath sulphur beams, line the stone walls with mahogany humidors. You see where I’m going with this: 79 Colborne St is that oil painting the conservationist examines with cotton swabs and then returns with the news that you’ve bought yourself a Rembrandt. It is the perfectly designed magic trick; the handsome devil you nearly missed. (id:54626)
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Property Details
Size
Parking
Lot
Build
Heating & Cooling
Utilities
Rooms
4pc Bathroom
10′6″ x 13′8″
Bedroom
10′0″ x 11′5″
Bedroom
10′0″ x 11′6″
Bedroom
12′3″ x 13′9″
4pc Bathroom
13′0″ x 13′11″
Loft
17′6″ x 19′11″
Ownership Details
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