For Enid it was also very important to be near the main public transit system in Toronto, as she had never driven a car, and had no intention of learning how to.

By1966 Enid and Rod had had four children, Karen, who was born in London, Nicola, Caroline, and Angus who had all been born in Ottawa. Enid had previously painted in the basement of the house in Ottawa, however in Toronto she used the dining room in their new house as her painting and drawing studio.

Rod installed a large wooden framework on the wall of the dining room to which Enid could fix her canvases and plywood panels when painting. She also used a large easel in this room, however she preferred large paintings to be fixed to the wall, as they did not move when she worked on them.

A favorite trick of the children was to make bets as to how long it would take visitors to notice the elaborate cedar-coffered ceiling panels in the dining room (usually minutes to hours in the case of particularly unobservant or inebriated guests!). The decision to do this mammoth work was based on their dislike of the original stipple plaster ceiling, and Enid’s desire to have a ceiling similar to one of the ceilings in Hampton Court Palace in London, near where Enid had lived in London.

She painted the fifteen 24 x 24 inch ceiling panels on the easel, spending seven years working on this project between many other tasks. Rod built all the cedar woodwork encasing the panels (***and their eldest daughter who is afraid of heights was "encouraged" (a.k.a forced) to stand on the dining room table holding them over her head during installation***).

She decided to make sunflowers the theme of this project, and the result was extremely rich and interesting and remains a fixture of the house to this day..