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Building Your Dream Home—in Green

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Achieving a high-performance home in BC has never been easier with tips from green building experts who say simple and durable is the way forward.

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H-House: A Natural Connection

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A stunning custom home exterior pays tribute to the forest beyond with wood finished fluted siding from Newtechwood.

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Installing Stone Veneer Over Brick

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Stone veneer brings character and elegance to our homes. Install it over an existing brick façade for a seamless transformation.

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Architects in Your Home

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Engaging an architect’s services in your custom home project brings value, expertise and peace of mind

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The Future is Passive

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Design-build firm Blue Water Concepts brings Passive House principles to every build.

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Art Within Your Comfort Zone

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Any successful project begins with a team that can take a client’s dreams and transform them into reality. The group at Space 9 Interior Design Inc. is that team.

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How to Start Your Custom Home Renovation: Hints + Tips

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Imagine your dreams of a custom home renovation becoming a reality. Imagine your ideas put down on paper, created into a 3D model, then designed and built within the walls and on the foundation of your existing house. Imagine your tired old home transformed into a new custom dream home.VictorEric...

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Next Generation Blueprints

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WalkOnPlans brings blueprints to life to instill confidence in builders and manage client expectations

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Feel Good Inside

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Interior Design firm Beyond Beige is taking advantage of the changes 2020 brought and is going within—inside its business philosophy and its design studio—to inspire clients

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Home Tour: Inside a Young Family’s Dreamy East Van Home

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When designing their home from scratch, one young East Vancouver family sought a transitional design that fit with the traditional heritage of the area and their modern tastes. A close working collaboration between Turco Homes, Kalu Interiors and Kitchen Art Design (KAD) made this dream possible. The family consulted with...

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How to Design a Gorgeous Holiday Table

We tapped Vancouver interior designer Megan Baker to create a refined and modern tablescape to last you from Christmas to New Year’s—and she’s sharing some of her top style and entertaining tips, too.

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A Design of Epic Proportions

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California Closets transforms an entire room with one very large, multi-functional storage solution.

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4 Clever Storage Solutions for Small Spaces

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When a Vancouver couple was downsizing from 4,700 to 1,700 square feet, California Closets design consultant Emma Beaty had to be creative with storage solutions.

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Surrey: City of Tomorrow

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In the rapidly growing city, Concord Pacific is upping the ante with its latest development, Park Boulevard.

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Now Open: Kate Duncan Loft

Furniture maker and local design enthusiast Kate Duncan invites us into her new live-work showroom to chat brunch, built-in cabinets and finding a space to call home.

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Patkau Architects’ Tula House Wins RIBA Award

Raised 44 feet up from Pacific waters, the Tula House on Quadra Island, B.C. is the latest recipient of the International Excellence in Architecture award from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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Where City Meets Sea

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Downtown convenience meets oceanfront escape in this maison d'etre redesign.

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How One House Spanned Three Generations

A local architect embraced the chance to modernize this West Coast home while preserving a family's history. See it yourself on this years MADS Modern Home Tour.

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At Home with Todd Talbot

See how the "Love It or List It Vancouver" star illuminated his West Coast family home with help from Robinson Lighting and Bath Centre.

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7 Amazing Patios We Love

Sun shining, cool beverage in hand—there's no better place we'd rather be than sipping and sunning on one of these gorgeous patios.

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Reasons to Renovate

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Trademark Renovations' Blair Foisy shares how renovating can make your dream home a reality.

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Chez Montebello

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The Montebello show home by Astoria Custom Homes brings French countryside elegance to the city of Calgary.

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Marpole on the Rise

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The new Shaughnessy Residences by Alabaster Homes offer award-winning townhome designs and ideal neighbourhood amenities in the heart of up-and-coming Marpole

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Inspiration Gallery: 21 Great Spaces

From gorgeous open-concept kitchens to modern home offices to quirky kids' rooms, we're showcasing our favourite inspiring spaces from across the West.

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5 Home Décor Hacks

Designer Janette Ewen shares a few of her favourite ways to customize a space in a snap.

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14 Rooms with Amazing Views

In the West we're positively spoiled when it comes to gorgeous scenery—here's a collection well-designed rooms that make the most of it.

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Connecting to the Cabin

Cabin Pressure’s Colin and Justin fill us in on how to create the perfect personalized cabin without breaking the bank.

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Modern Wine Room

Why hide your favourite bottles down in the cellar? This elegant personal tasting room is designed to show off.

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Open-Concept Lakeside Cabin

Buying a remote patch of Kootenay Lake’s sublime shoreline secures one couple an ultimate escape from the city’s hurly-burly (and one of the country’s finest patio views, too).

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Modern Beachside Home

A summer beachside home from the team at Kelly Deck Design features on the second annual Vancouver Modern Home Tour.

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A House For Entertaining

A bespoke home on Vancouver's best street has an envy-inducing patio that's the perfect setting for throwing a summer wine tasting.

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Trade Secrets

Five designers share their best tricks of the trade for creating a smartly designed home.

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Steep Seclusion

A cliffside residence in West Vancouver is designed for both public gatherings and quiet reflection.

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Renovations—Design Legacy

Nearly six decades after it appeared in this magazine, a Vancouver home is lovingly restored to its original glory.

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Flooring—Art Underfoot

Look down: innovation and creativity have gone horizontal. Take it to the floor, from rather glam graffiti and beastly (in name only) beauty to concrete chic and hardwood that quite literally clears the air.

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Mountain Modern—Whistler Chalet

Forget the bearskin rugs and flannel throws: this contemporary Whistler chalet is a sleek and stylish reimagining of the classic family cabin.

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Three’s Company—The Perfect Laneway House

This sleek laneway home is just right for a family of three. That’s because dad, Doug Weibel, was both the designer and general contractor. Look inside the perfect space he created for his family.

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Civil Union

He loves cool modernism, she loves warm and cozy. The results? A beautifully designed compromise.

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Open Concept Cabin

A custom cabin in the Gulf Islands offers a great escape for a family searching for the perfect summer retreat.