It was three years ago that the City of Toronto set out to study the ways condo owners “hack” their units to make living in tight quarters work for families.
The idea behind the project, called Growing Up, was to develop guidelines for integrating family- suitable design into new multi-unit residential projects. As the study rolled out, the city’s planning division visited families across the GTA for firsthand accounts of raising children in condo units ranging from 635 to 1,400 square feet. The work-from-home findings it unearthed now seem like ancient history.
Of the nine anonymous households it consulted, only two made mention of working from home, and only one had dedicated home office space. For the most part, dens were used not as offices but as bedrooms for children.
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