Five years at the University Club of Toronto

Some jobs you finish. Others you keep. For more than five years, Daniel has been the painter the University Club of Toronto calls, for everything from seasonal touch-ups to full repaints and the slow, careful work their ceilings deserve.

Founded in 1906 and housed since the late 1920s in a heritage Neo-Georgian building on University Avenue, the Club is exactly the kind of room where paint has to be right: soaring coffered ceilings, fluted columns, deep crown detail, and chandeliers that leave nowhere for a careless line to hide.

Working around members, antiques and original architecture means meticulous masking, the right primers and finishes for old plaster, and a lot of time on the ladder. The reward is a space that still wears its age beautifully, refreshed without losing an ounce of its character.