Modern home takes Don Mills fast forward

When she was a little girl, Kimberly Au saw Don Mills as a kind of wonderland. Visiting her aunt and uncle, who lived in the neighbourhood, "I'd wander through all these connected parks on my little purple tricycle," she recalls. "It was so green, so beautiful, and I always said, 'Wow!'"

Now she just has to look out her windows to get the same feeling: She now lives with her husband and daughter in a Don Mills house that backs onto one of the neighbourhood's "greenway" parks.

They commissioned the house from architect Cheryl Atkinson to take full advantage of the site.