Family’s are living in multi-residences under one roof – this means that the demands on our households have changed dramatically. Working with a variety of ages, heights, abilities, and needs requires careful planning and considerations.

Simple isn't boring

There’s a new wave of designing with a return to understated elegance. No need for the over the top, elaborately decorative rooms, just spaces that are authentic, historic, and artful. Simple is just as beautiful.

Farm-to-table

It isn’t what we use our kitchen for that’s changed, but rather how we use them. We’re focused on farm freshness and natural products that are safe and healthy. That means that our planning centres are different that out-of-the-box kitchens.

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The other day, I was chatting with @ArneSalvesen, a local Vancouverite and Certified Kitchen Designer who writes his own blog, Useful Spaces, and soon to be a fellow alumnus of the Brizo Blogger 19 (what a long title, I know, sorry,) and we were bantering back [...]

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Leading green business Upholstery Arts leaves customers, and their lenders, seeing red.

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600 BLOCK, BEATTY STREET, VANCOUVER, BC – This baby has taken on the best of any life in this no-fun city. Graffiti is either an annoyance or beauty, but wow, this is awesome. Having been painted over on December 23 ’09 by the Engineering Department (aka City Works) in a [...]

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VANCOUVER BC – A demolition on the corner of Hornby Street & Helmcken Street (map) almost turned into a murderous scene with this building demolition. The former William Davis Centre for Acting is right around the corner from St. Paul’s Hospital and the Sheridan Wall Centre. Where the hell is the [...]

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Woodwards Building is destroyed September 30, 2006 and only the facade remains. Image source

Vancouver has an addition problem, and I’m not talking about our poorest postal code. It’s addicted to destroying everything that is old and vibrant about this city and building a new multi-residence in it’s place. Property [...]

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Designs of Olympic proportions

On February 5, 2010 By

As we Vancouverites head into the Olympics next week, some of you are really getting into the spirit inside and outside your homes and workplaces. The city is being visually slaughtered by Olympic advertising, temporary venues, mascots, country flags, and each of us react in our own way. Some of us embrace it, some of [...]

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Sailors warning: photo

On January 7, 2010 By

Sometimes this city takes my breath away. Image taken this morning from Cambie St & Broadway St as the dawn kisses the North Shore mountians.

Today is day 9 of my 100 days of yoga and this is an apt reminder of how the universe works with you if you are open to receiving it. [...]

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