Lenny Di Palma describes working from home during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as a game of musical chairs. He and his wife tried setting up work spaces in different parts of their home—in one of...

Photography: Virginia MacDonaldStyling: Emily Griffin Everyone in the family plays piano, says designer Emily Griffin, so the instrument is the focal point in the front room. The walls were hand-painted by Robert Sangster both here and in the...

Photography: Drew HadleyStyling: Jean MonetFloral arrangements: Le marché aux fleurs du village It was a January evening when a Boucherville, Quebec man went for a stroll and decided that the rundown, traditional Québécois-style home by the river was in...

Exuberant, Malpeque in room Debbie Brady is passionate about oysters. It’s not their taste or texture—in fact, she never eats them. It’s the beauty she finds in their shells: the lines, unexpected shadows and shades of colour that...

Photography: Ema PeterStyling: Sophie Burke, Nicole Gomes and Cosette Ramsay For one Vancouver couple, downsizing meant trading in their traditional family home of 30 years for city life: the 37th floor of a newly built high-rise condo, with...

Photography and Styling: Azen and Kevin Bongard Homeowner/designer Azen Bongard chose a light concrete board to surround the fireplace in the living/family room. “Because the house is concrete, we wanted to honour that in some of the decorative...

Photography: Mike ChajeckiStyling: Ann-Marie Favot Along with creating beautiful spaces for her clients, designer Rebecca Hay now tries to do something else with her remodelling projects – make them more sustainable. “It’s a new mission for my firm,”...

Photography: Matthew McMullen Styling: Charlotte Skiba The 75-year-old home that Julie Tompa Wolthausen and her husband Dan bought in west-end Halifax has needed a lot of love, attention and remodelling over the years.  It had been renovated by...

Photography: Larry ArnalStyling: Yvonne Whelan To move or to renovate? Like many families, Noele Wrycraft and husband Brad Warren started house-hunting when the home in Toronto’s Beaches neighbourhood that they’d lived in for 20 years became tired and...

PHOTOGRAPHY: DREW HADLEYSTYLING: DENISE PALISAITIS François Séguin has an enviable commute to work: 16 steps upstairs from the loft he shares with his wife, painter Susan G. Scott, to their joint studio. Or, if he’s feeling lazy, he...