127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The inside of this $730,000 Toronto house is an absolute trip

Toronto real estate has given us plenty of questionable design choices over the years.

There have been bizarre bathrooms, kitchens that look like they haven't been touched since the '70s and enough grey laminate flooring to cover the entire city.

But every once in a while, a house comes along that makes all those other properties look positively boring.127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The front entrance. 

And 127 Salem Ave. is one of those houses. 

From the outside, the three-bedroom semi-detached home in Dovercourt Village looks relatively unassuming.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The backyard. 

Sure, it's not exactly going to win any architectural awards, but there's nothing about the exterior that prepares you for what's waiting inside. 

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The living room. 

Stepping through the front door of 127 Salem Ave. is a bit like dropping acid and wandering through someone's grandmother's house.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

A bedroom. 

There is wallpaper. So much wallpaper.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

Another bedroom. 

Floral wallpaper, patterned wallpaper, wallpaper in colours that probably shouldn't exist alongside one another — basically every room has committed to its own completely different aesthetic.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The inside of the front entrance. 

Then there's the bright red wall-to-wall carpeting, which somehow manages to make everything else going on in the house feel even more intense.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The dining room. 

The living and dining rooms are particularly chaotic, with competing patterns, colours and textures everywhere you look.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The upstairs landing. 

It's the kind of interior where your eyes don't quite know where to land.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

A bedroom. 

Head into another room, and you're greeted with an entirely new colour scheme, almost as if several different people decorated the house independently and were forbidden from speaking to each other beforehand.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The kitchen. 

And then there's the kitchen. Calling it compact would be generous.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The kitchen and back door that leads out to the backyard. 

The tiny galley kitchen is basically the size of a closet, with cabinets, appliances and counter space squeezed into an impressively narrow footprint.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

A bedroom with mismatched windows. 

Upstairs, you'll find three bedrooms and a three-piece bathroom, along with, you guessed it, even more colour and pattern.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The basement. 

The basement adds some extra living space, with a second kitchen, three-piece bathroom, living area and storage.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The second kitchen. 

But beneath all the visual chaos, there's actually a pretty compelling opportunity here for someone willing to take on a serious renovation.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The basement bathroom.

The house is in Dovercourt Village, with Dovercourt Park nearby and both Dufferin and Ossington subway stations within easy reach.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The living room. 

And, somewhat unusually for this part of Toronto, the house comes with legal front-pad parking.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The laundry room. 

Perhaps most interesting, though, is the price.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The basement living area. 

127 Salem Ave. is currently listed for $729,000, after previously asking $869,900 earlier this year.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The upstairs bathroom. 

That's a drop of more than $140,000 and puts the asking price below even the lowest recent selling price for a semi-detached house in the area.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The backyard. 

Semi-detached homes around here typically sell for anywhere from roughly $805,000 to nearly $2 million.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The non-liveable area in the basement. 

Of course, judging by the interiors, whoever buys it should probably set aside a healthy chunk of their budget for renovations — or at the very least, a wallpaper steamer.

127 Salem Avenue Toronto

The back porch. 

But if you've always wanted a Toronto house where every room feels like entering a completely different dimension, 127 Salem Ave. certainly delivers.

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