A mid-century refuge, heavy on the modern 

A Lorne Park house built in the late 1960s and overhauled by Orangeink Design — a project that won the firm a 2025 Architizer A+ Award — is a perfect illustration of how ideas about modern design evolve over time.

The leafy Mississauga enclave of Lorne Park is dotted with a number of similarly remarkable MCM houses. Blessed with wide and deep mainly ravine-edge lots, some have been sensitively updated, and others torn down and replaced.

“Personally, I think it’s a shame when lovely old houses like this are knocked down,” says Orangeink principal architect Tony Diodati about the property; it was originally shown to him as a real estate listing by the client, a good friend in a design-adjacent industry with great taste. “So we looked at how we could work with the bones to update it, while