On his first visit with architect Alain Bergeron of the firm Aedifica, whom he’d commissioned to design the home, he also invited a landscape designer, and the three of them roamed the woods and imagined a house and...

There’s an office in the Noormohamed home in West Vancouver that reflects the design of the rest of the house. A small, sloped-ceiling room in a 3,500-square-foot home, the office is filled with a sense of tranquility.

A trip to Europe changed the lives of a young couple. When Josie and Bryan Monk returned to their hometown of Vancouver, they came back inspired by the magnificent 18th century architecture they had seen in England and...

Xin Xin and Lawrence Deschner fell in love with their 1912 Craftsman home in Renfrew Heights 20 years ago. The three-storey hilltop house offers breathtaking views of downtown Vancouver, the North Shore Mountains and the ocean.

Peter Lam wanted “someplace serene” to live in, and he found it at Shaughnessy Place. It was almost by chance: his mother was reading the newspaper one day, and just in passing Peter saw a real estate ad...

People who sail in Centre Bay rarely see this award-winning home on Gambier Island. “You have to know its exact location because it blends so perfectly with the environment,” says Graeme Huguet, the managing director of the My...

Sometimes it really is easier to start from scratch. George Urvari and Julie Poirier had originally wanted to expand and renovate their 1960s bungalow. The more they described their ideal home, the more the architects at INCITE Design...

A clean and contemporary look was foremost for the young professionals who commissioned this new-build kitchen for their Woodbridge home. Aesthetics aside, with a new baby, they needed no-fuss function as well. To get their dream kitchen, they...

WORKING ALL THE ANGLES Kitchen renovation transforms difficult room BY JANE AUSTER PHOTOGRAPHY: MARK POLIDORO STYLING: SHAUN BINNS Condo kitchens can be awkward spaces. That was certainly true of the galley kitchen, located right off the foyer in...

This home was meant to be. It all began when the homeowner and her husband were looking to build a new house. They had some idea of the spirit they wanted in their new home – openness, warmth,...