The tree in Stéphane Ouellet's backyard was ruining a good thing. The yard, once an urban refuge, was now a place where only the tree was thriving. The roots of the 100-year-old poplar were turning the rubber tiles...

    The original touches in this Edgemont Village home — from wooden patterns on feature walls to remarkable ceiling panels — came together through the collaborative efforts of the builder, designer and a carpenter. The 5,400-square-foot, five-bedroom...

    A large glass facade rises to a dramatic peak, accounting for more than half the rear of this 4,000-square-foot home on Gabriola Island. Ships that ply the Georgia Strait, an occasional orca or dolphin, the Coast...

    Petto Chan and Billie Leung were living in the basement of Petto's parents' home when they realized the garage and carport across the backyard could be transformed into a home for them and their two-year-old daughter....

Designers Vanja Santic and Dario Drinovac have been practising some social engineering on their dinner guests. Let's call it guest-herding. The couple, who run the Vancouver design firm Room8 and who designed their own home in Kitsilano, love...

René Desjardins’s design inspiration entered the room one day in the form of a female client’s outfit. The wearer, one half of a couple moving to Westmount from the suburbs, was dressed in a cashmere coat and a...

  Old Hollywood. Those two words helped Peter Brooks focus his mind for the challenging project ahead. He and his team had 45 days to design and decorate a 1,200-square-foot condo, which was a bare white box with...

  Nancy Brown and Norm Lo used to walk by a certain house in their neighbourhood and stop to admire it. They imagined living in a place just like it. The house was understated and homey, with a...

A kitchen cabinet can hold more than crockery or foodstuffs. Sometimes another world can exist inside of it. As if The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe had been directed by a home designer, the curious can walk...

  This is a story of glass, stone, wood and leather, and how the combination of these elements turned a West Vancouver property into a balanced, high-end home. This quartet of materials gives the two-storey home a cool temperament,...