We love a challenge. As champions of site-specific home design, we are excited when clients bring us unusual lots and properties, unique scope requirements, and a big vision. Nowhere is this better exemplified than with our 2006 ski chalet project, The Crescendo. In...
In the early 1990s, Denis was introduced to Karen and Kevin Lowe. The couple had purchased a property on Shuswap Lake a couple of years before and were looking to build a summer home in anticipation of their growing family. Denis worked with the Lowes to design a home...
The design-build process is very involved behind the scenes, yet it takes the stress away from the homeowner. When you choose to work with a design-build firm, you are getting a personalized level of service that allows trust to be formed between yourself and your...
This summer has brought home a number of home truths when it comes to the environment in British Columbia, chief among them our consumption of water. Western Canada is facing severe drought conditions, with some municipalities and districts declaring water...
They say that you can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been. In order to determine where the future of custom home design is going, we need to take a look at where we’ve been. While some design trends, particularly mid-century modern home...
Micro suites are a quickly growing building trend in the Okanagan and throughout BC, but in other major cities, they are simply called “apartments.” In densely populated cities like New York, Tokyo and Paris, it isn’t unusual to pack your entire life into a space that...
