A kaleidoscope of kitsch in a new vintage-inspired kitchen

Walk along the streets of Toronto’s Dovercourt Village – Hallam Street, Delaware Avenue, Dovercourt Road or Gladstone Avenue – and you’ll see the usual bricks-and-mortar suspects: small bay-and-gables, vaguely Craftsman-style semis, worker’s cottages and that ubiquitous 1960s/70s infill, the Toronto Special.

It’s the same architectural story down Cassidy Ritz and Kevin Harper’s street. Some squat two-storeys, some three, all mostly gabled and semi-detached, there is a quiet, pleasant, predictable rhythm. And should one think that calm continues after opening one of those sturdy and staid Toronto front doors, one has obviously never been a guest of the former city planner and retired tattoo artist.