Corey Klassen | Interior Designer

I’ve tried to get rid of newspapers completely in my home, but SOMEHOW (eh hem, Jason?) they keep creeping back in. The upcycled newspapers are tightly rolled and paperbacked with a loom. Cleanings a breeze with your Dyson, but keep them away from too much sunlight or you’ll have yellow walls. @Core77

I’m usually a lot quicker with my posts – contribute it to many clients and projects on the go – but here’s one that I’ve been DYING to post. This cutie-patootie is Tom Broadbent, a Leicester De Montfort University industrial design graduate, whom has created this brilliant shit disturber. Using the same principles as a [...]

Sometimes clients have a hard time seeing everything together, or making counter-top decisions in this case. For this particular client, I needed to pull out a major arsenal from my designer tool-belt: labeling the samples by what the response was. To perform this trick, put all the known selections in the middle. Grab some 11″ [...]

When the client popped into our showroom a few months back, she had just purchased this interesting home in West Point Grey and knew she was going to redo the all the electrical and the kitchen. She was pretty intent on saving everything and keeping the character of the home. What really got my goat [...]

I’m a little star struck with this house. Either that, or I really got too much sun yesterday. It’s Frank Gehry‘s, and of course it looks turned inside out and upside down, but what really caught my eye is how simple the kitchen is. And, being a kitchen designer, I was really taken aback because [...]

It’s a bird? It’s a plane? IT”S ELECTROLUX! For those of you have believed the doubt brought on by other experts, there are indeed several plastic floating islands in our oceans made by us humans (and you wonder why whales and fish are dying) and Electrolux is going to help us start to fix the [...]

Back at the beginning of May, a customer came into the showroom @ILK with a cabinet door. Normally I tense up a bit when this type of thing happens because they’re usually looking for a match to some other manufacturers product. Not this time. Requirements: Match Doorstyle of existing. Match colour of existing Add 6″ [...]

At first I fell in love with the back elevation of this kitchen. Then I realized there was this indigo blue island in-front. Although I’m not a fan of vivid colours in a kitchen, perhaps it’s the cleanliness, I found that overall this is smart, symmetrical, and interesting. Pump up the jam.