During the years when Mélanie Giguère worked as a fashion designer, it was her fine-arts background that inspired her colours, shapes and style. Now, as a full-time painter, it’s her history with fashion that shapes her paintings: folded...
PHOTOGRAPHY: LARRY ARNALSTYLING: MICHELLE BERWICK Andy Hsu and Ruobing Zhang had done their homework before they started renovating the 35-year-old home in Vaughan that they had bought. The couple had spent hours looking at magazines and online, and...
PHOTOGRAPHY: KEN HUNT For a couple of decades, wallpaper was the home-decor equivalent of the schoolyard outcast: snubbed and ignored, and spending most of its time hiding out at grandma’s house. Since then, wallpaper has had a gradual...
PHOTOGRAPHY: DREW HADLEYSTYLING: DENISE PALISAITIS Few city homes can boast a backyard as large and impressive as the one at Yannick Côté’s home in the Village in downtown Montreal. Fewer still can claim that horse stables used to...
Closet Envy: That feeling you get when you stare at photos of sumptuous, perfectly organized walk-in closets larger than your bedroom, then look back at the crammed cubbyhole you stuff your clothes into. For every newly built...
PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMIE ANHOLTSTYLING: MAJIDA DEVANI The best ideas for designing indoor spaces sometimes come from time spent out- doors. For Majida Devani, the creative lead at Rndsqr home builders in Calgary, that spark came on a family holiday to Japan,...
Photography and Styling: Azen and Kevin Bongard Designers Azen and Kevin Bongard opted for Scavolini cabinets, with features such as built-in cutouts for cooking accessories and lighting that snaps on when the doors and drawers are opened. The...
Gordon Pym was walking down a street in Westmount, Quebec one day when he stopped at an art gallery, transfixed by the landscapes he saw inside. “They blew me away,” he says of the paintings by artist David...
PHOTOGRAPHY: MAXIME BROUILLET STYLING: LAURENT GUEZ Laurent Guez used to get strange reactions when he told people his pet name for the country home he designed and built in Abercorn, Quebec. On the plans and in conversation he...
