An Optometrist’s Midcentury Ranch House in Montreal Gets a Clear-Sighted Renovation

He could see his future. Optometrist Sylvain Duquette had first hired la Shed to renovate his clinic and eyeglass shop in Laval, a northwest suburb of Montreal. He was so delighted with the sleek, ultramodern outcome that he engaged the firm to transform a 1,400-square-foot ranch house he'd just bought in the same neighborhood. The surrounding 1950s subdivision was developed by J.J. Joubert, a successful local dairy owner who, it turns out, had a passion for midcentury design and architecture.