How a Toronto couple turned their creepy basement into a swanky speakeasy

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How a Toronto couple turned their creepy basement into a swanky speakeasy

(Photographs courtesy of Cultiv8) Catriona Smart grew up in Newmarket, Ontario, with a pair of bubbly parents who entertained constantly—and she caught the bug too. Smart, a former bartender and current creative agency founder, hosts all kinds of parties in her stone-faced 1920s mansion in Toronto’s Forest Hill neighbourhood, where she moved toward the end of 2016.  Smart gutted nearly the whole mansion before moving in—except for the 3,000-squa…