As the editor-in-chief of Style at Home and Canadian Gardening magazines, Erin McLaughlin knows her way around a reno. She also has good help: her staff. Together, McLaughlin and her team have taken on her Tudor revival home, in the west end of Toronto, as a kind of pet project. Since McLaughlin moved into the property four years ago, the reno has been slow but steady, a one-room-at-a-time endeavour that's respectful of the home's other occupants: McLaughlin's husband, physician Ken Peckham, and his teenage daughters from a previous marriage. One of the first rooms the group tackled was the two-level master bedroom, located in a new addition overlooking a tree-lined lot. The previous owners had painted the ceiling gold, the floors orange and the walls red. "It was theatrical," says McLaughlin, who prefers a neutral palette. "I wanted it to look like a tree house," she says. "When I'm in it, I feel calm."