Honey and Barry Sherman’s new house would have been filled with light. The property at 91 Old Forest Hill Rd. is desolate now — an empty 25,000 square-foot lot where a house once stood, near Eglinton Ave. W. and Spadina Rd. The plot of land has been registered in Honey’s name since November 2016, and the old house had been demolished to make way for something new. Though it’s unclear to the public what will happen to the property now, architectural plans submitted to the City of Toronto reveal the intricate details of the 16,000 square-foot home the billionaire couple was set to build before their bodies were found this month — under what police call “suspicious” circumstances.The drawings show a home with five skylights, ranging from six to 17 feet in length, letting light pour in across the roof of the main brick-and-stone residence. Another massive skylight, 41 feet in length, would slide open from the centre, over an indoor pool. Read more: Meet the retired homicide detective hired to investigate the deaths of Barry and Honey ShermanHoney Sherman was ‘ultimate connector’ with ‘best Rolodex in the country’After the deaths of Honey and Barry Sherman, how do police investigate?There would be sliding doors on both floors, and a 207 square-foot glazed opening that spanned across both. Tucked on a slice of land at the corner of Old Forest Hill and Gardiner Rds., plans for the project — involving work by Holbrook + Associates Landscape Architects, Brennan Custom Homes Inc. and Villa Villa Architects Inc, according to the plans submitted to the city — spared no details. A “large shredder” was specifically designed into the office upstairs, beneath a bookcase. A gym on the same floor was to have a weight machine, an elliptical, a treadmill, a reformer and a television. The two-storey house would have an indoor pool in a one-storey building set to the side. There were three bedro ...
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