Condo comes with wrap-around balcony

North York home extends indoor living space to outdoors, overlooks nearby park for $799,900

- TRACY HANES

The 1,435-squarefoot corner condo in North York offers three spacious bedrooms, plus a 600-squarefoot wrap-around terrace.

Location 1006-115 Antibes Dr., Toronto

Price $799,900

The sellers Janice and Derrick Niss wanted to downsize from their detached home in Thornhill three years ago, but two of their three children were attending university and still living at home. They found a solution in a 1,435-square-foot condo in the nearby WestminsterBranson neighbourhood in North York. It had three bedrooms, so was large enough for everyone.

The building was older, but the 10th-floor, corner condo suite had been completely renovated, so was modern and bright. And its huge wraparound balcony with two sliding doors offered beautiful south and west views of a surrounding park, and, at 600-square-feet, extended the indoor living space to the outdoors.

“In the summer, I sit there all the time,” says Janice Niss. “It’s lovely and I’ve made planters out there. I don’t miss the house.”

“You basically get the warm sun all morning on the balcony,” adds Derrick. “There are no condos close by, so you can see some distance. In the fall time, it’s beautiful to see the changing of the trees in R. Ross Lord Park.” They can even see the CN Tower in the distance, and “when there are fireworks, we don’t have to go anywhere to watch them!” adds his wife.