Famous Toronto fashion influencers list their 'Scandifornian' home for $5 million

Toronto has no shortage of multimillion-dollar homes that take themselves very seriously, but 6 Denmark Cres. is definitely not one of them.

The North York home is packed with colourful arches, curved walls, natural wood and playful design choices that feel like a mash-up of a Scandinavian retreat and a laid-back California beach house.

Or, as the listing puts it, "Scandifornian."

The living room. 

And while that might sound like a made-up design trend invented by an LA-influencer, it's actually a pretty accurate description of what's going on inside. It also makes a little more sense when you find out who lives here.

The family room. 

The home belongs to twin sisters Sam and Cailli Beckerman, arguably two of Toronto's original fashion influencers, who have spent years turning their love of bold colours, vintage fashion and maximalist accessories into a career.

The kitchen and dining room. 

So perhaps unsurprisingly, their house isn't exactly beige.

A play room. 

The sisters worked with Toronto architect Robert Micacchi to completely reimagine the property, with the renovation reportedly taking six years and stripping the house right back to the studs.

The foyer. 

The result is more than 4,200 square feet of living space that combines the warmth and simplicity of Scandinavian interiors with California surf culture, vintage influences, and the Beckermans' decidedly playful sense of style.

The soaring ceilings and skylight on the main floor. 

White oak floors, skylights, soaring ceilings, and rounded corners run throughout, but the home's most memorable feature might be its colourful arches.

The playful arches in the home. 

Rather than sticking with the neutral palette that dominates so many luxury Toronto homes, rooms are framed by glowing LED arches in shades of pink, blue and green.

The floating oak staircase. 

Then there's the spectacular floating oak staircase, which curves through the centre of the home like a piece of sculpture.

The kitchen. 

Even the home's more practical elements have been given the designer treatment, with bespoke lighting, marble and natural stone finishes, custom Scavolini cabinetry and quartzite countertops in the kitchen.

One of the primary bedroom's ensuites. 

But what's particularly wild about the transformation is what the house looked like before all of this.

The front door. 

The property last sold for $1.8 million in 2020, and photos from around that time show a home with a dramatically different aesthetic.

Instead of pale oak and pastel arches, the house leaned heavily into a kind of retro '80s glam, complete with lots of mirrored surfaces, black toilets, and a smoking room in the basement.

The main floor. 

In other words, the Beckermans didn't exactly slap some white paint on the walls, swap out the kitchen cabinets and call it a renovation.

The curved staircase in the centre of the house. 

The four-level backsplit was completely reimagined over the following six years, turning what was once a very particular time capsule into something that looks unlike almost anything else currently on the Toronto market.

A bedroom. 

And because the sisters were designing the house for themselves, they apparently had some very specific requests.

The gym. 

For Sam, it was a home gym. The former basement smoking-and-party room was transformed into an exercise and wellness area, complete with a sauna.

The sauna. 

"We put a sauna in there, and we made it like a whole spa in the basement," she told Hello! Magazine.

A bedroom. 

For Cailli, meanwhile, the must-have was a more fashion-focused space: a Harry Potter-inspired closet.

The "Cabinet of Curiosities". 

Located in one of the house's highest-ceilinged areas, the enormous dressing room presented a design puzzle: how to use all that vertical space.

A bedroom. 

Working with Micacchi, they eventually found a solution and gave the finished space an appropriately whimsical name: the "Cabinet of Curiosities." And if you've spent years working in fashion, having a closet that requires its own nickname feels pretty fitting.

A primary bedroom ensuite bathroom. 

The home has two primary suites, each with its own spa-like ensuite and elaborate dressing room, plus two more bedrooms on the lower level.

The wet bar. 

There's also a family room with a striking mirrored wet bar — one of the few remaining pieces of the home's former mirror-heavy aesthetic.

The backyard. 

From there, a walkout leads to a covered terrace and sprawling rear lawn that offers plenty of room for summer entertaining.

A playroom with built-in shelving. 

Other luxury touches include heated floors, automated lighting, custom window coverings and a circular driveway.

Currently, 6 Denmark Cres. is listed for $4,990,000. That's nearly $3.2 million more than the property sold for six years ago, though given the scale of the transformation, you're obviously not buying anything close to the same house.

The view from the main floor. 

And in a Toronto luxury market where multimillion-dollar renovations can sometimes make one home indistinguishable from the next, a "Scandifornian" house with glowing arches, a Cabinet of Curiosities and a former smoking room turned private spa is at least one you're unlikely to forget.