I had big plans. I was going to write an entirely imaginary history of this detached midtown house, both brick-clad and memory-full, based on the bits and pieces still scattered around. I'd have introduced you to Penelope, the dancer/dressmaker from Spain, and her husband who pilfered a marble slab from an Italian quarry and used it to make the coffee table. The rough and endless boat ride to Canada.

Them buying it new in 1950. You might well have believed me. But better for you, I think, to spend your precious time imagining your own future in the house, and what you might do to it, rather than a made-up and Flamenco-rich past. 27 Dunlop is a 1.5-storey, three-bedroom (one's on the main floor and being used as a dining room) home with a separate family room tucked away at the back, and a high-ceilinged unfinished basement.