# A conversation about families in condominiums

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2022-09-10

99-invisible, architecture, development, everyday-her, everyday-him, everyday-studio, families-in-condominiums, housing, junction-house, junction-house-condos, multi-family-housing, single-family-housing, studio-haus, urbanism

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I spent this morning filming a new short video for [Junction House](https://www.junctionhouse.ca). My friends [Adriana](https://www.instagram.com/everydayher_/?hl=en) and [Mateusz](https://www.instagram.com/everydayhim_/?hl=en) live in a beautiful boutique condominium building downtown. They are also raising their young daughter there, and using it as an office and design studio (he's an architect). This is a story that we are looking to tell in a new campaign that we'll be launching this fall, and so I very much appreciate them volunteering their time.

We talk about this a lot on the blog, but there are [deep cultural biases in Toronto](https://brandondonnelly.com/2022/05/19/disease-breeding-tenements/) (and throughout North America) around single-family housing. But that is changing. For a variety of reasons, more and more people are choosing to live in multi-family buildings and [to raise families within them](https://brandondonnelly.com/2022/03/16/high-rise-urban-families-in-torontos-cityplace/). We believe that there are many benefits to this lifestyle choice, and that it is ultimately a positive thing for our cities. So that's what we were discussing this morning.

Thank you both for your time, and thank you to [Studio Haus](https://www.instagram.com/studiohausmedia/) for figuring out how to get the lighting right in a corner suite with copious amounts of natural light.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/a-conversation-about-families-in-condominiums)*