Events This Calgary Design Team Is Running a Massive Fundraising Walk This Weekend—And There’s Still Time to Join
Homes Slate & Ash: Serenity in the city Sponsored Content Pennyfarthing's seventh and final chapter in the Cambie Collection history is a refined, elegant, 62-home development on idyllic Ash Street on Vancouver’s West Side
Homes Why Architects Choose Varsa Windows and Doors Glazing Systems Sponsored Content Architects seeking to enhance performance and aesthetic integration of windows and doors in their projects rely on Varsa for innovative, design-savvy and functional solutions.
Homes Trade Secrets: A Whistler Kitchen That’s Rustic Modern Meets Material Magic Designer Lauren Ritz reveals how to achieve Tahoe-inspired rustic charm while keeping your kitchen functional.
Homes Pamela Anderson’s Ladysmith Home Is a Whimsical, ‘Funky Grandma’ Dream Come True The '90s icon tapped Vancouver design firm Studio Albertazzi for help transforming her six-acre Vancouver Island property into an oasis—with a heavy emphasis on roses and chandeliers.
Homes Before and After: Stunning Photos from a Vancouver Beach House Renovation A super-satisfying transformation gallery of a Point Grey reno by Measured Architecture.
Homes Home Tour: A West Vancouver Harbour House With a View Sophie Burke Design creates a home that celebrates both family togetherness and the need for quiet moments of solitude.
Homes Home is Where the Heart is and the Kitchen is the Heart of the Home Sponsored Content Merit Kitchens creates timeless spaces and enhances living areas with custom quality cabinetry.
Homes This Stunning North Vancouver Home Has Secret Passageways, Floor-to-Ceiling Bookshelves and a Sleek, Modern Treehouse A post-and-beam home offers an architect (and family man) a chance to make a decade-long design dream a reality.
Bedrooms Best Cooling Mattresses in Canada Sponsored Content Sleep soundly with these expert-approved cooling mattress picks
Homes One20 at 14th + Lonsdale – From mountains to water with community at the centre One20 is a vibrant community of 164 contemporary residences in Central Lonsdale, surrounded by breathtaking views, diverse dining options and a growing, welcoming community
Homes A West Vancouver Manor Gets a Whimsical Makeover Designer Kelly Deck brings a sense of play and charm to a traditional home.
Homes This Lanefab Design House Is Nothing but Net (Zero) A Step 5 house in North Vancouver from Lanefab Design/Build is both sustainably designed and built to handle our ever-evolving climate shifts.
Homes How to Choose a Design Build Company for your High-Performance Home Sponsored Content Experience, curiosity and teamwork are key to a successful team, say the experts at Innotech Windows + Doors
Homes Inside a Cozy Salish Sea Family Retreat with Epic Views A family vacation home on the Salish Sea hits a sweet spot of elegance and durability, cozy spaces and epic views.
Homes Restoring Charm: Sophie Burke’s Remote Howe Sound Island Cabin Makeover Designer Sophie Burke brings a near-century-old cabin back to life on a remote island just up the coast.
Designers Building Your Dream Home—in Green Sponsored Content 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.
Homes Trade Secrets: A Wall of Wonder At-Home Bar Designer Louis Duncan-He elevates home entertaining with his dramatic bottle wall design.
Homes We’d Give Anything to Be Vacationing at These Okanagan Homes Right Now Lake views, wine cellars, private beaches—they’ve got it all!
Homes This Moody, Masculine Calgary Home Takes Inspiration From an Unlikely Source Designer Louis Duncan-He took inspiration from a fashion retailer for this sleek, sumptuous renovation.
Homes Before & After: An Alberta Family Finds Home Again Through a ’70s-Inspired Renovation Designer Brianna Hughes transforms an Edmonton home with cozy nooks and eclectic details to create a warm haven for a family of five returning from tropical climes.
Homes Trade Secrets: Creating a Sleek and Seamless Kitchen Design Designer Natalie Sands-Manianis transforms a Langley kitchen into a clean, clutter-free work of art.
Homes This is your chance to discover Luxury Tree Home—a modern architectural masterpiece in Calgary Sponsored Content A gorgeous, one-of-a-kind residence, built around a beautiful Ficus fig tree, is for sale in Calgary.
Homes 6 Cabins with Stunning Ocean and Lake Views These views will make even city folk want to pack up and enjoy what cabin life has to offer.
Homes Reviving Heritage: Hershel Supply Co. Founder Lyndon Cormack’s Modern Waterfront Oasis The North Vancouver home of Lyndon Cormack is an art-filled, playful ode to both high design and the patina of time.
Homes Create treasured moments at Tesoro by Concert Properties Sponsored Content At the crest of False Creek is Tesoro by Concert Properties, where 92 contemporary, luxury homes span 17 storeys on the waterfront, connecting flawlessly to the city and iconic Vancouver views.
Homes Before & After: Inside the Modern Makeover of a Classic Vancouver Special PlaidFox offers a fresh take on the retro charm of a once-spurned, now-beloved Vancouver classic.
Homes Forest Hills: A dark, dated North Vancouver home finds new life with a custom renovation Sponsored Content Premier renovation experts Twin Lions Contracting transformed an 80s-style home into a contemporary, stream-lined haven with a bright and airy ambiance
Homes 8 Rooms That Will Inspire You to Finish Your Ceilings with Wood Slats, Panels and Beams Say goodbye to your conventional ceilings and hello to these high-end finishes.
Homes Trade Secrets: A Stylish and Functional Double-Sided Fireplace Vancouver's Knight Varga Interiors shows you how to bring the heat with their haute hearth installation.
Homes Off-the-Grid Living: Exploring the Island Cabin near Desolation Sound, B.C. On a bluff overlooking the Salish Sea, these guest quarters offer a masterfully designed pairing of indoor and outdoor living.
Homes It’s Always Happy Hour at These 7 Homes with Built-in Bars What drink would you be sipping at these gorgeous home bars?
Homes Area Rugs Can Bring a Room to Life—and These 7 Designer Looks Prove It In these spaces, style comes from the ground up.
Homes 8 Homes with Dark, Dramatic Dining Rooms These looks prove that dining rooms can be moody and marvelous.
homes & design 6 Staircase Landings That Have Been Transformed into Cute and Cozy Nooks These homes really make the most of small spaces.
Homes Home Tour: Inside Kits Point’s Big Sky Beach House Dream This collaboration between designer Andrea McLean and architect Howard Airey is what happens when beach house dreams come true.
homes & design 8 Colourful Rooms to Cheer You Up on This Blue Monday Today more than usual, we’re thankful for these designers who embrace colour.
Homes Colour Code: Sage Green Embrace the calming influence of soothing sage green in your home decor.
Homes Editors’ Picks: Our Favourite Homes of 2023 Editor's Pick The editors of Western Living share their favourite Western Canadian home designs published in the last year.
Homes 7 Whistler Homes We Want to Escape to This Winter Peek inside these cozy cabins and chic chalets.
Homes Get the Look: Navy, White and Gold Christmas Patterns and Prosecco blogger Neelam Gurm shares her holiday style secrets.
Homes 7 Christmas Trees To Inspire Your Holiday Decor This Year From glitzy and glam to minimalistic and modern, these Christmas trees are the perfect idea kickstarter.
Homes A 100-Year-Old Vancouver Home Gets Decked Out for Christmas Restoring a 100-year-old home is a labour of love for designer Kerri-Lee Watson—and the results offer the perfect stage for a classic Christmas design.
Homes A Designer’s North Vancouver Home Gets a Kid-Friendly Christmas Makeover Getting designer Mariana D’Amici’s North Vancouver home holiday-ready is a family affair.
Homes Holiday Home Tour: Inside a North Vancouver Home Built With the Christmas Tree in Mind A home designed by Kelly Deck meets its festive destiny during the holiday season.
Homes Holiday Home Tour: Inside Designer Alykhan Velji’s Festive Calgary Reno A holiday visit to designer Alykhan Velji’s newly renovated home is a transporting experience of warmth, beauty and joie de vivre.
Homes This Safe Shelter Was Transformed Into a Homey New Space for Its Residents With the help of 80 donors, Synthesis Design found cost-effective solutions to create a beautiful new design for Act 2, an organization that gives safe shelter for women and children.
Homes Inside Vancouver’s Most Festive Hanukkah House Designer Gillian Segal brings home the Festival of Lights in glorious silvers, whites and blues for the 2020 Kids Help Phone Homes for the Holidays tour.
Homes This West Vancouver Home Feels Like a Luxury Yacht in the Sun The construction may have been difficult, but the living is easy.
Homes Home Tour: This West Van Home Mixes Midcentury Warmth with Modern Minimalism HB Design pairs clean lines with rich, flagstone floors for something special.
Bedrooms 8 Adorable Nurseries We Wish We Grew Up In These rooms (and their occupants) may be tiny—but they’re big on style.
Homes 7 Excellent Mudroom Designs for the Most-Used Space in the House These rooms prove that function and beauty go hand in hand.
Homes Home Tour: A Tale of Two Houses Interior designer Gillian Segal tackles a pair of projects, and finds beauty in connection and contrast.
Homes Home Tour: A Modern Okanagan Farmhouse Designed for the Dog The team at Form Collective combined two aesthetics to create a long-lasting relaxing oasis for the whole family (pets included).
Homes Home Tour: Inside NHL Star Trevor Linden’s B.C. Home Goal A peek inside the Evoke–designed Vancouver family home of hockey legend Trevor Linden.
homes & design Protect the Moments: Practice Whole Home Safety Sponsored Content October is Fire Prevention Month and serves as a great reminder to prepare a home safety checklist
Homes Homes Abroad: Tour the Casa Mia a Milano in Italy Peek inside the stunning Milan apartment of Gallotti&Radice principal Silvia Gallotti.
Homes This Lakeside Cabin in Saskatchewan Can Comfortably Fit 20+ Guests Bring the cousins: we're going to the beach house.
Homes Photo Tour: A Layered, Warm, Perfectly Moody Edmonton Home by Designer Brianna Hughes Brianna Hughes brings texture and a lifetime of design inspiration to this warm and welcoming family home.
Homes H-House: A Natural Connection Sponsored Content A stunning custom home exterior pays tribute to the forest beyond with wood finished fluted siding from Newtechwood.
Homes This Modern, Mountainside Cabin Has Us Dreaming of Winter Vacation Already This cozy Golden B.C. cabin in the woods has us daydreaming about our next ski trip (all year round!)
Homes 10 Before & After Design Stories to Inspire Your Next Home Renovation It's too hot to renovate... but not too hot to dream.
Homes Coastal Elegance: Inside a Vancouver Island Family’s Minimalist Art-Filled Oceanfront Retreat The team at Falken Reynolds helps a family bridge their prairie roots with a new, beach-y Cadboro Bay address.
Homes Removing One Wall Changed Everything in This Bright, Airy East Vancouver Duplex One strategic structural change and some fresh new finishes transformed this dated space into a farmhouse-modern dream home.
Homes Before & After: A Gloomy Kitsilano Family Home Gets a Fresh and Modern Makeover Project 22 Design transforms an outdated, inefficient abode into a creative home for a modern family.
Homes Before & After: A Renovation Transforms a White Rock Home into the Most Flexible House in the West Designer Andrea McLean brings flexible design and a coastal-inspired palette to this stunning renovation in White Rock, B.C.
Homes Before & After: An Interior Designer’s Squamish Duplex Dream Renovation Interior designer Annaliesse Kelly of AK Design embraces her wildest design dreams with her most personal project yet.
Homes Before & After: A Multigenerational Richmond Abode Goes from Cookie-Cutter to Custom Dream Home Joy Chao of JHA Architecture and Interiors transforms a 90s-era house into a modern oasis for a new family on a budget.
Homes Dream Home Alert: A Kamloops YMCA Lottery Dream Home Merges Stunning Views With a Great Cause Spot On Interior Design and Clay and Oak Interior Design join forces to craft a warm, modern and scenic mountain dream home that gives back to its community.
Homes 13 Design Lessons From a Gorgeous Coastal Condo in Vancouver Aleem Kassam of Kalu Interiors brings seaside serenity to this West coast renovation.
Homes Dream Condo Alert: A Warm, Timber-Lined Loft We ‘Woodn’t’ Mind Living In This timber-paneled New Westminster loft celebrates materiality and texture.
Homes A Hamptons-Inspired Home on Canada’s West Coast This nautical-chic, Karly MacLeod-designed home takes its cues from another coast.
Homes Home Tour: Inside a Reimagined Contemporary Vancouver Penthouse Schédio transforms a three-bedroom condo into a sleek, modern, jaw-dropping home.
Homes Inside the Calgary Home of an Art-Collecting, Colour-Loving Family It’s the perfect design match for the team at Alykhan Velji Design and an art-collecting, colour-loving family of four in Calgary.
Homes Using Stone to Cultivate Bright West Coast Interiors Sponsored Content Bring year-round light and warmth to your West Coast interior with a stone upgrade
Homes The Home Tour: Rich, Sumptuous Colour Anchors a Decadent Calgary Home Interior designer Brianna Hughes and Ministry of Interiors embraced rich hues and textures to create a dream home for a successful dentist in Calgary.
Homes 9 Incredible Old Home Renovations We’re Obsessed With Get inspired by these home renovations that showcase the power of thoughtful design, creative solutions and a willingness to take on a challenge.
Homes Before & After: This Coquitlam House Makeover Is a True ‘Ugly Duckling’ Story A new layout and fresh finishes transform a dated, awkward home into a beauty, thanks to Mave Interior Design Studio.
Homes Before and After: A Stuffy South Granville Home Transforms Into an Airy Luxury Oasis Designer Sita Walia and Architect Patrick Warren revitalize a lackluster '90s home into a stunning, modern and minimalist masterpiece.
Homes Mood Board: How to Layer Warm Neutrals For a Bold, Inspiring Home Design Paul Lavoie shares his mood board of neutral furniture and home decor that's anything but subdued.
Homes An 8,000-Square-Foot Calgary Home Inspired by High Fashion—and Plenty of Drama No gentle neutrals allowed.
Homes Before & After: A Roomy 1970s House Becomes a Modern, Art-Inspired Home for a Family of Three A renovation from Kalu Interiors brings a dated '70s home into the present.
Homes Home Tour: Inside a Spectacular Whistler Ski Chalet That Embraces the Great Outdoors McKinley Studios designs a ski-in, ski-out Whistler vacation home that makes the most of the stunning forest views.
Homes Organic Shapes, Natural Light and Textural Rattan: This Victoria Home Is a 10,000-Square-Foot Vision Andrea Rodman and Scott Posno team up to create an Oak Bay dream home.
Homes How a Narrow Vancouver Island Lot Became a Modern 4,500-Square-Foot Family Home A challenging waterfront site on Cadboro Bay is tamed for a Scandinavian-influenced house built to withstand an active family of five.
Homes The Ultimate Treehouse: This Breathtaking Bowen Island Home Brings Modernity Into the Forest Tree houses don't just have to be for kids.
Homes This Calgary Spec Home Is an Ode to Colour Designer Suzanne Tetrault of Studio Felix uses cream and peach tones to bring summer vibes to long Calgary winters.
Homes 6 Ways to Incorporate Colour into Your Home From bright doorways to patterned feature walls to creative kitchen islands, here are the best ways to incorporate colour into your home design.
Homes Before and After: A Designer’s Own 1980s Rancher Gets a Fresh ‘Modern Beach House’ Look Vancouver designer Madeleine Sloback transforms a dated, cramped rancher into a breezy, beautiful dream home for her growing family.
Homes Installing Stone Veneer Over Brick Sponsored Content Stone veneer brings character and elegance to our homes. Install it over an existing brick façade for a seamless transformation.
Homes Editors’ Picks: Our Favourite Homes of 2022 Our editors pick their favourite home designs in Western Canada in 2022.
Homes This Holiday Decor Scheme is Pretty in Pink and Silver It was a perfect match for designer Kendall Ansel and these homeowners: they're both obsessed with Christmas.
Homes Home Tour: A Scandi-Cool Home Decorated for Christmas Designer Sophie Burke and her client, Sarah Duyker, pair up to bring a modern, organic spin to a formerly traditional home design.
Homes Home Tour: A Spectacular West Vancouver Home with Sustainable Holiday Decor In a modernist West Vancouver home by McLeod Bovell, designer Gaile Guevara infuses seasonal style with sustainability at every turn.
Homes How an Interior Designer Decorates Her Holiday Table Bring in lighting, natural elements and your own collections to create a festive, warm holiday table design.
Homes Before and After: A ‘Discombobulated’ ’90s Home Gets a California-Cool Makeover An Abbotsford home gets a fresh look from Refined Interiors and Co.
Homes Home Tour: Inside a Scandi-Modern, Festive Vancouver Heritage Home Designer Sophie Burke brings a tactile and organic new layer to her own home and to celebrating the holidays with her family.
Homes We Love This Palm Springs-Inspired Holiday Look Calgary designer Aly Velji brings a Palm Springs Christmas vibe to his mid-century home.
Homes How to Bring a Beachy Vibe to Holiday Decor Designer Ami McKay of Pure Design keeps it casual-cool for the holidays, part of the 2020 Kids Help Phone for the Holidays virtual tour.
Homes We Love This Natural, Nordic-Inspired Look for the Holidays Designer Sarah Ward's talent for creating warm, intimate spaces is unfettered by size, space or season.
Homes The Home Tour: Black, White and Textured All Over in Vancouver This 4,000-square-foot Vancouver home by Aysh Design takes a simple palette to new heights.
Homes BEFORE AND AFTER: This 1970s Vancouver Home Goes from Drab to Fab in a Gorgeous Modern Renovation Designer Annaliesse Kelly of AK Design took this Kerrisdale house out of the 1970s with a new floor plan and facelift to create a beautiful, yet functional, family home.
Homes House Tour: With a Few Key Design Updates, a Historic Home Gets a Fitting Refresh A cosmetic upgrade respectfully refreshes a historic Vancouver home.
Homes Home Tour: Inside a Dreamy Modern Beach House Rescued from Demolition This formerly ’80s-era beach house now offers a lesson in flow, functionality—and beautiful design.
Homes Opposites Attract in This Clean-Lined-But-Playful Modern Victoria Home Bidgood creates perfect harmony in this family abode.
Homes Before and After: This Playful Modern Makeover Is a Masterclass in Boldness and Balance The designers at Reena Sotropa In House Design Group give this Bearspaw home a major glow-up.
Homes Home Tour: Inside a Beachy and Beautiful Eagle Island Getaway Thanks to HB Design, an extensive renovation brings life back into this rustic-yet-sunny home owned by a pair of Earls Restaurant co-founders.
Homes Home Tour: Inside a Maximalist Calgary House That Fully Embraces Colour "Doing colour properly also means having a space where you can get away from it, and have some variety, or it becomes too saturated," says designer Paul Lavoie.
Homes This Modern Lakeside Home Captures Gorgeous Views Inside and Out Nigel Parish of Splyce designs an Okanagan home that's both part of the landscape, and a celebration of it.
Homes Warm Woods, Striking Marble and Great Hits of Black Come Together in This Elegantly Renovated Home Designer Stephanie Charest brings a much-needed refresh to a home in Bearspaw, Alberta, that better suits the client and the space.
Homes Home Tour: Inside Former NHL Player Dan Hamhuis’s Stunning Modern Home in Northern B.C. Vancouver-based design firm Falken Reynolds celebrates the beautiful landscape with this sprawling mountain-meets-lakefront home.
Homes A Seven-Bedroom Pied-a-Terre Designed to Bring Family Together This multi-generational Vancouver vacation home from DesignLab Interiors celebrates family with serenity and style.
Homes This Stunning Home on a Kelowna Apple Orchard Has Separate Wings for Living and Sleeping Architect Randy Bens uses artful window placement and natural materials for a light and bright abode.
Homes Home Tour: A Modern Whistler Home Gets an All-Natural Holiday Makeover White oak, black stained cypress wood, concrete and crisp white drywall balance warmth and airiness.
Homes This Prairie Modern Home Features Custom Stained Glass and Incredible Millwork Details Natural wood tones, textures and bold orange accents bring warmth into this bright modern update in Calgary from Alykhan Velji Designs.
Homes A Whistler Log Cabin Gets a Chic Modern Update Without Losing Its ’70s Charm The project also offered designer Lynn Gentile of Cabin Fever Interiors a chance to honour one of Whistler's old cabins.
Homes Hockey Legend Glen Sather’s Gorgeous Banff Home Is a Labour of Love Hockey legend Glen Sather may work in Manhattan, but he'll always call Banff home.
Homes Inside a Kid-Friendly Modern Farmhouse with a Secret Wine Cellar Floral wall decals, football-focused decor, and a wine cellar basement make this Vancouver home functional for the whole family.
Homes Mood Board: How to Achieve a Rustic, Modern Design Designer Mitchell Freedland brings rustic warmth to a modern Whistler home.
Homes This Scandi-Bohemian Retreat Features Exposed Rafters and a Daring Black Accent Wall The walls and ceiling came down in this Vancouver Island home from Whiting Young Interior Design.
Homes Before & After: A 3,600-Square-Foot Single-Level Home Gets an Airy Makeover BattersbyHowat brings the notion of quiet respite and reflection to a family home in Vancouver.
Homes This 4,000-Square-Foot Serene and Masculine Condo Design Features a Central Wine Room Box Interior Design created the condo for a travelling client looking for a space with a masculine aesthetic, a spiritual connection and muted restraint.
Homes Renovation Story: A 30-Year-Old Home Gets a Timeless New Look Designer Jamie Banfield gives an Ontario family their new West Coast dream home.
Homes A Home That’s Designed to Grow with This Family of Five The team at Calgary's Reena Sotropa In House Design Group were tasked with creating a forever-home for a growing family of five.
Homes Trade Secrets: A Dramatic, Angular Exterior on a Home An unconventional facade on a Vancouver house creates a memorable moment by D'Arcy Jones Architects.
Homes Inside a Beautiful Vancouver Renovation That Plays with Shape and Colour Architect Marianne Amodio and an ambitious homeowner stray off the beaten path—and anchor a heritage home even more firmly in its community.
Homes It’s All About the Stunning Windows and Dramatic Staircase in This Modern Mediterranean Home in Calgary The gorgeous Mt. Royal home from Alykhan Velji Designs is full of natural light, bold tiling and textural details.
Homes Trade Secrets: Sliding Doors That Maximize Space and Style Vancouver design firm &Daughters makes the most of a 1958 remodel.
Homes 9 Genius Ways to Style Your Sideboard How to make the most of your trusty sideboard (because it's more than just a storage solution).
Homes SNEAK PEEK: A Restored Bob Lewis Home Is About to Come on the Market The designer's post-and-beam homes are celebrated part of the North Shore's midcentury modern design history.
Homes Home Tour: Inside a 9,700-Square-Foot Terraced Brick Beauty An architectural collaboration that wows.
Homes Revolutionary Fluted Siding Perfect for the West Coast Sponsored Content Fluted siding from NewTechWood is sustainable, design-friendly, recycled and completely at home in British Columbia
Homes This Stunning Whistler Home Embraces Nature at Every Turn A Whistler home from Shelter Design and Lauren Ritz Design embraces sky and stone.
Homes How to Make a Spec Home Stand Out: Lessons from a Not-Boring Calgary Infill Studio Felix brings in unexpected colour for a versatile, but unique design.
Homes The Home Tour: A 1,400-Square-Foot Townhouse With Scandi-Cool Style How a renovated 1980s townhouse was transformed into a Scandinavian Modern dream home for one young North Vancouver family.
Homes “Southwestern Modern” Brings Subtle Desert Style Home Southwest minimalism is the latest look we love.
Homes Home Tour: Wall-to-Wall Windows on the Waterfront Designer Lindsay Steele's own home makes the most of its Nanoose Bay location.
Homes This Modern Vancouver House is Pixel Perfect A Vancouver home by Measured Architecture is a gorgeous study of materials, from its confetti-like exterior to its boldly beautiful interiors.
Homes This Boomerang-Shaped Home Blends in on the Outside…But Inside, it’s a Modernist Marvel BattersbyHowat brings a long-planned dream home to these homeowners on the Sunshine Coast.
Homes Trade Secrets: How to Master the Tropical Modern Look A Hawaiian getaway gets a modern treatment from designer Stephanie Brown.
Homes Home Tour: Inside a Moroccan Modern Home in Palm Springs with Incredible Views Just as he completed a renovation on his first Palm Springs home, a design-loving writer accidentally falls in love with another house.
Homes Before & After: A Rustic-Chic Whistler Cabin Makeover Lessons from a high-contrast, high-traffic vacation home.
Homes Architects in Your Home Sponsored Content Engaging an architect’s services in your custom home project brings value, expertise and peace of mind
Homes 5 Design Lessons From a Cortes Island Dream Home The design team at Parker and Harlow bring sophistication to a secluded isle.
Homes This Bright and Airy—and Playful—Calgary Home Was Inspired by a Dress Designer Louis Duncan-He plays with colour-blocking and elegant arches for this distinctive space.
Homes What Happens When a Design Magazine Editor Takes On a Renovation of Her Own Western Living editor-at-large Stacey McLachlan knew better than to tackle a renovation... but she did it anyways.
Homes Trade Secrets: How to Design an Entryway That Wows Victoria-based Bidgood crafts a playful modern entryway.
Homes This Mid-Century Coastal Getaway Is 100-Percent Long Weekend Vibes A house on the edge of the Sunshine Coast finds its soul thanks to the design team at Falken Reynolds Interiors.
Homes This Canadian Vacation Rental Company is Like Airbnb for Design Nerds Rent a modernist treehouse or shipping-container cabin from Winnipeg's Bowerbird Stays.
Homes Can We Move Into This Cool Modern Treehouse, Please and Thanks? Dad of the Year alert: architect Rafael Santa Ana built an incredible treehouse for his kids that's almost as enviable as the family's real house.
Homes Home Tour: Inside a Casual-Chic Modern Kamloops Home Designer Tanya Wassen brings unfussy elegance to a three-storey modern home.
Homes One to Watch: Wellness Designer Annabelle D. Mastalic The nurse-turned-designer behind Calgary's ADM Interiors brings a wellness element to every project.
Homes Great Spaces: Inside a Psychedelic-Rustic Banff Barbecue with Hidden Karaoke Rooms Frank Architecture and Little Giant Studio collaborate on a '70s-influenced mountain retreat.
Homes Inside A Gorgeous Home That Finds Zen in Black and White Andrea Rodman designs a space with both Scandi and Japanese influencesand a stunning white and bright kitchen with a 13-foot island.
Homes Inside a Luxe, Hygge-Inspired Alpine Getaway A classic Danish concept informs the design of a Kicking Horse ski cabin from architect Mark Burkhart.
Homes Home Tour: Inside a Luxe (but Laid-Back) Home on the Sunshine Coast Summer camp meets style in this Alda Pereria-designed modern getaway.
Homes How to Design an Eye-Catching Entryway Three ways to design your entryway to make an awesome first impression.
Homes Home Tour: A Stunning Modern Coastal Farmhouse from Olson Kundig For two lawyers from the American Deep South, a contemporary farmhouse on the San Juans by Olson Kundig is just what retirement ordered.
Homes Mood Board: Alykhan Velji’s “New Traditional” Home Reno What inspires this Calgary designer? Modern lighting paired with traditional details.
Homes 7 Entryways and Mudrooms That Wow Step into 7 homes through their stunning entryways and mudrooms
Homes A Stunning Renovation of a Heritage Vancouver Home The renovation of this vintage home on Vancouvers west side is a master class in designing a space thats both contemporary, and a celebration of its history.
Homes 5 Ways to Make Your Home More Hygge Days are getting shorter, so we're still looking for some cozy factor in our lives.
Homes This Small Vancouver Condo Makes a Big Statement in Black and White Megan Baker Interiors creates depth, texture and plenty of smart storage in a 664 square foot condo.
Homes Great Spaces: Inside a Sexy, Jade-Studded Secret Bar in Vancouver’s Chinatown Bergman Interiors designs a stunning secret bar behind a humble dumpling restaurant in Vancouver.
Homes Mid-Century Scandinavian Style Meets Western Cowboy in This Modern Ranch A weekend home in the Southern Alberta foothills celebrates family history and family time in equal parts.
Homes How to Use Wallpaper in a Bedroom, Bathroom and More Wallpaper has long been used to not only beautify walls, but to fix them too.
Homes Trade Secrets: The Most Elegant Room Divider in the West You know what's not divisive? Rebecca St. John's beautiful design solution.
Homes This Incredible Renovation of a 1972 Home Is a West Coast Modernist’s Dream The team at Burgers Architecture helps a Vancouver couple to rescue a 1970s gem of a home.
Homes A Calgary Home Gets an Elegant, French-Loft-Inspired Renovation The renovation from Stephanie Brown Inc. can comfortably house a family of eightwith plenty of room to get away from it all.
Homes This East Vancouver Abode Is a Gorgeous (and Colourful!) New Take on a Multi-Family Home A home for three families in East Vancouver from architect Marianne Amodio could just be a new prototype for communal living.
Homes You Won’t Believe This Gorgeous Renovation Is Actually a Basement From subterranean to spectacular, this lower level is now ready for family fun.
Homes This Modern Whistler Cabin Is Family Friendly with a Nod to Scandinavian Design The design from BattersbyHowat features a Y-shaped plan that both provides privacy and captures that view.
Homes Inside Trevor Linden’s Modern Whistler Condo With Evoke International Design, hockey great Trevor Linden builds himself a laid-back, (but tricked-out) Whistler retreat.
Homes Before and After: A Cramped 1920s Bungalow Is Transformed Into an Open, Bright Family Space in Vancouver Architect Bruce Carscadden designs an open and bright family home in Vancouver.
Homes Trade Secrets: An Ultra-Mellow Modern Farmhouse Rustic meets Scandi in this dreamy exterior by Synthesis Design.
Homes The 10 Most-Read Western Living Stories of 2021 The stories that caught our readers' attention these past 12 months.
Homes Editors’ Picks: Our Favourite Homes of 2021 These are the homes that we continued to obsess about long after they were published.
Homes This Modern Farmhouse in Edmonton Is Black and Bold and Beautiful The 2,600-square-foot space pairs both modern and classic elements, thanks to the design duo at Ministry of Interiors.
Homes A Trapped-in-the-’70s Vancouver Special Gets a Modern Makeover With a bold and beautiful renovation, Kalu Interiors brings a classic home into present day.
Homes A 1970s Post-and-Beam Lions Bay Home Gets a Fresh Look (and a Teal Kitchen) How cool is it to renovate a home built the year you were born?
Homes Dream Home Alert: What’s Better Than One Bay Window? Two, Of Course This infill home by architect D'Arcy Jones bridges eras in style.
Homes Design School: How to Choose the Perfect Dining Chair (Or Not) Can't pick a chair for your dining room? Just invite them all to gather 'round the table.
Homes This Design Duo Stripped Away Years of Bad Renovations with Gorgeous Results The team at Falken Reynolds creates a space that celebrates this Vancouver condo's historyand future.
Homes We Love This Spanish Colonial Revival in Palm Springs A Palm Springs house with Spanish Colonial roots gets an elegant makeover from Calgary designer James McIntyre.
Homes Before and After: Converting a 1973 Whistler Ski Cabin into a Family Home The right angles make all the difference in this revamp of a Whistler cabin by Stark Architecture.
Homes This Colourful Calgary House is All About Bold, Beautiful Design Risks Designer Paul Lavoie boldly brings colour and pattern into a formerly builder-basic designand we cant get enough of it.
Homes On a Rainy Day, We’re Loving This Flat-Pack Cabin Design from Leckie Studio Designer Michael Leckie takes inspiration from Canadian Cottage Country for his collab with The Back Country Hut Company.
Homes Home Tour: A Little Black Box in a Green Forest A striking, ultra-modern black-on-black exterior hides a mid-century-inspired dream home inside.
Homes This Vancouver Home Feels More Like a Resort (Can We Check In, Please?) Floor-to-ceiling glazing paired with thoughtful landscaping results in a Vancouver home that feels like it's miles away from the city.
Homes Expert Advice: How to Style a Bookshelf Like a Pro PlaidFox's Ben Leavitt shares his top tips for stacking your favourite books and knick-knacks.
Homes Home Tour: Inside an Okanagan Lake House That “Feels Like Vacation” On the banks of Skaha Lake, a home design inspired by the palette (and serenity) of the lake itself.
Homes The Future is Passive Sponsored Content Design-build firm Blue Water Concepts brings Passive House principles to every build.
Homes Art Within Your Comfort Zone Sponsored Content Any successful project begins with a team that can take a clients dreams and transform them into reality. The group at Space 9 Interior Design Inc. is that team.
Homes 50 Years of WL: #40 A Spiralling Home, Times Two This magnificent spiraling home was updated 40 years later by its original architect, so it was featured in WL twice (and this time makes three).
Homes 50 Years of WL: #32 The Collective Soul – Hothouse vs. Pure Design Two acclaimed collectives emerging from Edmonton in the early 1990s resulted in double the daring design.
Homes Trade Secrets: A Light-Filled (But Cozy) West Coast Paradise Hunter Office Architecture lets the light in.
Homes 50 Years of WL: #28 Cottage Country Has Nothing on Us We'll take this Bowen Island cabin over any cottage.
Homes 50 Years of WL: #27 We’re a Dog’s Best Friend The best four-legged features of the last half century.
Homes 50 Years of WL: #26 A Jeweller with a Passion for FLW You won't find a more detailed love letter to Frank Lloyd Wright than Karl Stittgen's Pender Island home.
Homes 50 Years of WL: #25 When Mr. Christmas Opened His Doors Remember the time we went to Michael Bublé's house?
Homes 50 Years of WL: #23 We're All About the Views We live in a beautiful placeand don't our designers know it.
Homes 50 Years of WL: #22 We Still Want to Live in This Houseboat We've been thinking about it for 4 decades.
Homes 50 Years of WL: #21 We Embraced PoMo…and Then Snubbed It A magazine is entitled to change its mind.
Homes 50 Years of WL: #3 When Past Became Present Again A gorgeous Arthur Erickson home is given new life by BattersbyHowat, 45 years later.
Homes Way Back WL: A Modern ’80s Home Made Almost Entirely of Glass Architect Werner Foster thinks outside the box.
Homes How to Start Your Custom Home Renovation: Hints + Tips Sponsored Content 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...
Homes Next Generation Blueprints Sponsored Content WalkOnPlans brings blueprints to life to instill confidence in builders and manage client expectations
Homes Before & After: A Spacious Duplex Designed with Relaxation in Mind A cookie-cutter Vancouver duplex gets a relaxed, modern update (complete with a designated "calm space") from Rudy Winston Design.
Homes Creating Certainty in Construction Sponsored Content British Columbia-founded Alair Homes focuses on transparency in home building
Homes Way Back WL: A Sunny Galiano Island Home Circa 2003 To celebrate 50 years of Western Living, we're digging through the archives and sharing our favourite throwback designs.
Homes The Covid Reno: From Run-Down Garage to Adorable Island Cottage How one couple turned their COVID interruption into a reno opportunity.
Homes With Dramatic Views and An Intimate Courtyard, This Eco-Friendly Home Has The Best of Both Worlds This Vancouver home, built from prefab mass timber CLT panels, offers views for days but makes for some pretty nice scenery in and of itself.
Homes Feel Good Inside Sponsored Content Interior Design firm Beyond Beige is taking advantage of the changes 2020 brought and is going withininside its business philosophy and its design studioto inspire clients
Homes Trade Secrets: A Sweeping Skylight Marrimor and Frits de Vries Architects let the light in this seaside home.
Homes This Vancouver Special Uses Colour in All the Right Ways You're going to be obsessed with the kitchen island.
Homes This Serene Modern Home Will Make You Want a Fir Feature Wall Interior designer Susan Bilbey shows us inside her playful and bright family home in North Vancouver.
Homes Editors’ Picks: Our Favourite Western Living Homes of 2020 Western Living's editors and art directors share the feature homes from this year that stuck with them.
Homes Our Xmas Wish: To Live In This Cozy, Contemporary, Winter-White Home A minimalist Vancouver home designed by &Daughters is at the top of our wish list.
Homes Inside Photographer Tracey Ayton’s Holiday-Ready Beach House We're dreaming of a green Christmas.
Homes This Holiday Decor is Perfectly Pretty in Pastels For the Kids Help Phone Homes for the Holidays tour, Kalu Interiors embraces at least one classic holiday ethos: more is always more.
Homes Fantasize About Spending Lockdown in This Oceanfront Dream House Our new favourite quarantine hobby? Pretending we live somewhere else. Join us, won't you?
Homes Designer Aly Velji Brings the Holidays for These Homeowners Alykhan Velji revisits one of his designs to bring a modern holiday spirit to a chic Calgary home.
Homes The Most Important Private Home in America Is for Sale For $25 million you can own Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House.
Homes Is ‘Wonderment’ a Design Installation, Or an Oasis? As part of IDS Vancouver, an empty loft in Hastings-Sunrise has been transformed into a moment of Zen.
Homes This Pre-Fab Prototype Could Change the Future of Modular Housing It looks like we'll be able to buy WL-worthy homes online, soon.
Homes 6 Colourful Living Rooms for Greyer Days Ahead These inviting living rooms will brighten up gloomy days.
Homes How to Turn Your Garage Into a Home Hideaway Love It or List It host Todd Talbot transformed his dilapidated garage into a bright and airy backyard getaway.
Homes Trade Secrets: A Pleasant Little Office Nook We're meditating on the graphic greenery in this space by France Lefebvre.
Homes Simple, Subtle Sophistication for an Artfully Crafted Vancouver Home Designer Robert Bailey elevates simplicity to an art form in the subtle and careful design of this Vancouver home.
Homes A Designer (and Cookbook Collector) Finally Builds Her Dream Home 200 cookbooks + 4 kitchens = 1 house for an interior designer
Homes Before and After: A Chic, Contemporary Makeover Gives a Dreary Condo New Life A smart renovation by Negar Reihani gave a 30-year-old space a fresh new personality.
Homes Home Tour: Inside the Hip, High-Contrast Home of Two Vancouver Restaurateurs A three-bedroom renovation that brings hospitality home.
Homes 9 Gorgeous Dining Rooms to Inspire The Dinner Parties We’ll Eventually Get To Have Divine dining spaces perfect for entertaining... or at least dreaming about it, for now.
Homes 5 Design Lessons from This Modernist Calgary Home A modern house in Calgary's River's Edge neighbourhood is "a functional work of art."
Homes Trade Secrets: An Effortlessly Elegant Dining Room Rich, sophisticated colour in a minimalist space makes for a beautiful combination.
Homes Cool Idea Alert: A Modernist, Perforated Stairwell Let a little light into your stairwell with this genius design feature.
Homes How This Family Home in Vancouver Transformed Into a Fresh Space for a Second Generation A young couple takes over one partner's childhood home to create a space for brand new memories.
Homes This Heritage Home Renovation Is a Touch Modern and All Glam Melanie Finkleman of Hazel and Brown Design brings a little rock-star edge to a heritage home in Vancouver.
Homes Trade Secrets: How to Work with a Grey-on-Grey Palette Layer on the monotone shades for a sophisticated master suite.
Homes Extremely Serene and Incredibly Fun Home from Paul Lavoie Design A Calgary reno from Paul Lavoie Design strikes a balance between elegant restraint and glittering exuberanceplus a few pleasingly placed unicorns.
Homes Falken Reynolds Transformed a ’60s-Era Family Home into a 3,500-Square-Foot-Dream House The team at Falken Reynolds helps a family transition from close quarters to this airy dream homewithout the growing pains.
Homes A Home to Grow In: Inside One Vancouver Family’s Dream House Annaliesse Kelly Design used a timeless palette and natural elements to give this home lifelong style.
Homes Home Tour: Inside a Young Family’s Dreamy East Van Home Sponsored Content 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...
Homes The Everything Guide to Getting Organized Make the most of every square inch with these expert tips.
Homes How to Keep Your Houseplants Alive, According to the Master Its time for a fiddle leaf fig intervention.
Homes Trade Secrets: East-Meets-West Modernism Haeccity Studio Architecture embraces the contrast of tradition within a streamlined modern space.
Homes Twin Gables, Our Fave Vancouver Island Mansion, is Quietly Back On the Market Maybe snag it before Meghan and Harry do?
Homes Trade Secrets: Sculpted Walnut Wall Panels Make for a Hearth that Wows Modern meets traditional in this showstopper of a fireplace.
Homes Inside an Ultra Modern (and Ultra Accessible!) Home Thoughtfully Designed for Aging in Place This Fort Langley project is thoughtfully laid out with the future in mind.
Homes Ministry of Interiors Brings Paris-by-way-of-Scandinavia Inspiration to a New Home in Edmonton Brianna Hughes and Shannon McClelland prove it takes two.
Homes How to Build for the Climate Crisis Insulation is sexy, storage is cool, and Net-Zero Homes are really a thingtake in these 8 tips for building a great (and green!) home.
Homes See How a House Can Be Designed to Change as You Do Designer Gaile Guevara hosts an open house on a home that's still in construction to help people understand how to build for aging in place.
Homes Great Spaces: The Historic Hawthorn Dining Room Gets a Glam Update A Calgary hotel with a rich history gets a classy update.
Homes Home Inspo: Black and White and Minimalist All Over This Chilliwack home keeps things simple (and sophisticated).
Homes This B.C. House Puts A Modern Spin on Classic Chinese Architecture We've got a design crush on this East-meets-West beauty.
Homes The Collectors: HB Design’s Quest to Bring the World to Vancouver’s West Side A global collection merges with a thoroughly West Coast aesthetic.
Homes 5 Stunning Homes with Even More Stunning Views Floor-to-ceiling windows, rooftop decks and other features maximize the vistas just outside these houses' doors.
Homes Win a Private Design Consultation with the President of Maison DEtre! Sponsored Content This one-on-one is the first step in bringing your customized dream home to life.
Homes A Room of One’s Own After 12 years and a lot of life changes, it was time to make this home truly hers.
Homes Trade Secrets: Levelling Up With Layers A lush terrace shares design DNA with the gorgeous surrounding garden.
Homes How One Designer Transformed a Burned-Out Okanagan Plot Into His Dream Abode On land once ravaged by fire, Geoff Orr builds a new home that celebrates a rebirth—namely, of the salvaged materials used to construct it.
Homes A Steel Beauty of a Home in the Okanagan One Calgary couple makes a fresh start on a striking Okanagan site with the help of Sturgess Architecture.
Homes A Builder-Basic Calgary Home Gets a Custom Makeover Nine Years Later A modern renovation offers a fresh new look for a cookie-cutter Calgary home.
Homes Photos: A Reno’d Townhouse That’s Equal Parts Nordic and Japanese Zen A chic modern makeover brings a Steveston home into the 21st century.
Homes Custom Coverings Let the Sun Shine InWhen and How You Want it To Sponsored Content Windowworks specializes in window treatments of all styles and shapes.
Homes Room We Love: Basement With a View Architect D'Arcy Jones lets in the light with this striking modern space.
Homes Photos: How an Abandoned Calgary Factory Went From Warehouse to Dream House A heritage space in Victoria Park gets a restorative reno inspired by its restaurateur (and hobby-surfer) owner.
Homes Trade Secrets: How to Connect Contrasting Interiors Using Custom Storage This bespoke storage wall bridges a homes history with its present.
Homes How to Get Your Laundry Room in Tip-Top Shape, According to The Home Edit Hollywood's favourite home organizers share their tips for a clean and tidy space.
Homes Photos: A 1940s West Van Bungalow Gets a Bright, Modern Remake Once a closed-off bungalow, this Vancouver home now soarsand has plenty of room for its owners quirky collections.
Homes Inside a Slick Whistler Cabin Designed for Family Living An architects hideaway is a modernist marriage of sleek design and solid pragmatics.
Homes 7 Designer Tips for Creating a Show-Stopping Entryway Edmonton-based interior designer Jennifer Hughes shares the secret to falling in love with a home at the first step in.
Homes The Designer Tricks That Keep This Tiny Condo Clutter-Free Here's how the design team at California Closets helped maximize a small space.
Homes Great Spaces: 12 Gorgeous Rooms to Inspire A dozen stunning residential spaces from across the West.
Homes Inside These Editors’ 2,700-Square-Foot Palm Springs Getaway A pair of WL editors take on a quick reno of a 1940s Palm Springs hacienda—and all of the resulting challenges along with it.
Homes Trade Secrets: Brighten Up Your Entryway with a Laser-Cut Stair Railing All in all, a beautiful way to create a warm welcome.
Homes Our 10 Most Popular Stories of 2018 Beautiful homes, expert advice and insider tips topped our list of most-read stories for 2018.
Homes Editors’ Picks: Our Favourite Homes of 2018 Editor's Pick From a dramatic, colour-infused West Van crib to a Spanish-Colonial revival in the desert, these are the spaces that captured our heartsand attentionthis year.
Homes How to Bring Hotel Style to a 1,341-Square Foot Penthouse A sleek hotel-lobby vibe comes home in this Vancouver penthouse.
Homes How to Bring Colour into Your Space for the Holidays Interior designer Karin Bohn shares her tips for creating a modern, colourful holiday look.
Homes How an Interior Designer Decorates for Christmas A former restaurant designer's own three-storey in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood puts a soft spin on holiday decor.
Homes Photos: A Nordic-Cool Cabin That’s As Beautiful As It Is Sustainable This light and bright home in Whistler is also deceptively futuristic: its passive design creates a home thats at once elegant and ecofriendly.
Homes 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 Yearsand shes sharing some of her top style and entertaining tips, too.
Homes A Designer Brings Hygge to the Holidays Designer Denise Ashmores home from last year's Kids Help Phone Homes for the Holidays was made for snuggling up by the fire with cocoa and cookies.
Homes Mood Board Inspo: 80s Chic Interior designer Andrea Rodman shares her 80s-inspired mood board.
Homes It’s November and Gross Out So Let’s Look at Pictures of Beautiful Sunny Rooms Dreaming of brighter times.
Homes 5 Rustic-Modern Rooms Exquisitely Framed by Brick Walls We love that these old brick walls were given a second chance to shine.
Homes We Love This Playful, Modern Home in Calgary RNDSQR's Alkarim and Majida Devani have some fun with the design of their own family home.
Homes A 1975 Home Gets Redesigned by Its Original Architect Architect Rol Fieldwalker revisits the site of his groundbreaking Spiral House and begins anew.
Homes A House Designed in a Million Little Moments Every inch was considered in this modern, minimal abode.
Homes Trade Secrets: That Modern Farmhouse Feel Layer texture and colour for a contemporary look thats warm and welcoming.
Homes CKNW Host Lynda Steele’s Heritage Loft Renovation Sponsored Content An oasis in Yaletown by award-winning studio maison detre.
Homes Sneak a Peek at One of This Year’s Modern Home Tour Houses A new development company wants to demonstrate that truly sustainable design is beautiful, too.
Homes Reclaimed Beauty: Designer Martine Ast Makes Old New Again A radical update to a vintage 70s home in Calgary has more than a few playful nods to its original era.
Homes Two Luxe Coal Harbour Condos Become One Sophisticated Penthouse A pair of luxe condo units is transformed into a singular home with twice the sophistication.
Homes Look We Love: Multi-Colour Feature Wall A few strips of painters tape and a palette of pink and peach, and you've got yourself a one-of-a-kind wall design.
Homes Colour and Calm: Inside a Stunning 8,200-Square-Foot West Van Home With this award-winning interior design in West Vancouver, designer Robert Bailey offers a formal approach to coastal living.
Homes Explore the Best of West Coast Modern Design THIS Saturday Join the West Vancouver Museum in touring five of the citys most unique homes.
Homes 6 Summer-Ready Living Rooms We’re Loving Right Now Get inspired by these bright, summer-ready living rooms.
Homes You Won’t Believe What this 1920s Apartment Building Looks Like Inside How a renovation transformed the interior of this three-storey wood-frame building.
Homes Inside a Vibrant, Dramatic West Vancouver Home This McLeod Bovell project embraces hard-working materials—and colour.
Homes It’s All About Potential: 5 Tips on How to Upcycle Like a Pro Interior designer Jamie Banfield shares his expert tips on the best ways to upcycle.
Homes Remembering Jim Shaw: His Lakeside Hideaway With the help of designer Paul Lavoie, the late Jim Shaw created a lakeside home in the Okanagan as warm and welcoming as the cable magnate himself.
Homes Get the Look: An Intimate (Dramatic!) Dining Room Designer Vanessa Stark turns a too-dark corner into the best part of her home.
Homes Inside a 3,650-Square-Foot Bright and Modern Calgary Home A stunning staircase and floor-to-ceiling curtain wall highlight the open design from intern architect Marvin DeJong and designer Nyla Free in the citys Elbow Park neighbourhood.
Homes Photos: A Modern Glass-and-Concrete Cliffside Home in West Vancouver On paper, this gorgeous house seemed at odds with its natural surroundings. But in practice, the Cedric Burgers-designed home feels like its somehow always been part of the landscape.
Homes 5 Things to Consider Before Downsizing Sponsored Content Considering making the move into a smaller home? Heres what you need to know.
Homes Made to be Discovered: The Inaugural Crafted Vancouver Will Reignite Your Love of Craft Sponsored Content Launching this month, Crafted Vancouver is a new kind of Craft Festival.
Homes 3 Unique Ways to Design an Open-Concept Condo Kitchen Sponsored Content Three new Lower Mainland condo developments demonstrate how one standard kitchen layout, with the right design elements, can take on endless fresh looks.
Homes Room of the Week: A Cool, Industrial-Inspired Living Room Naikoon Contracting's House of Hope is making us feel all sorts of room envy.
Homes A Design of Epic Proportions Sponsored Content California Closets transforms an entire room with one very large, multi-functional storage solution.
Homes How One Couple Embraced a Smart-Home System Sponsored Content With help from Xprt Integration, everything can be controlled with the simple touch of a button.
Homes Throwback Thursday: A Cliffside Family Home from 1963 We pay tribute to a Western Living classic that's surprisingly near and dear to our hearts.
Homes Libraries Everywhere are Getting a Major Facelift Victoria's new James Bay branch is just the latest example of how library design is evolving.
Homes 6 Beautiful Uses of Indoor Greenery You don't need a green thumb to be inspired by these chic rooms.
Homes We Love This Woodsy, Whimsical Nursery A modern nursery by Mango Design Co. couldn't have come at a better time.
Homes Before and After: How One Designer Refreshed a 1959 Lewis Post-and-Beam Home Designer Negar Ghorashi saves a mid-century West Vancouver home from the bulldozerand brings it beautifully into the present.
Homes Bahnuk Construction Shares its Secret for Easy Renovations Sponsored Content Bahnuk Construction minimizes surprises by providing absolute certainty in your home renovation.
Homes 5 Colourful DIY Ideas to Try Right Now Tiffany Pratt gives us the scoop on five sweet-and-simple DIY projects that will have a stunning impact on your home.
Homes How Custom Storage Helped Maximize This Yaletown Condo California Closets demonstrates how to yield maximum results and design-forward living in Vancouvers smallest spaces.
Homes Check Out This Heritage Modern Fireplace Apply new finishes to traditional design elements for a fresh take.
Homes 5 Things to Think About Before You Renovate Sponsored Content Goldcon Construction's Karim Goldan gives us the inside scoop on renovation considerations.
Homes Expert Advice: How to Fall Back in Love with Your Home Bored with your interior? Try one of these quick-and-easy updates from interior design Kendall Ansell.
Homes 9 Ways to Use Sofas as Your Room’s Source of Colour From wild and crazy patterns to subdued tones, there's a colourful sofa for everyone.
Homes Style Inspo: Black-and-White Spaces We Love Wanna rock the high-contrast look? These eight black-and-white rooms are sure to inspire.
Homes 5 Ways to Make Your Home Library Smarter Give your decor story a happy ending with these clever designs.
Homes Inside Designer Angela Robinson’s Cozy Vancouver Condo Every piece in this interior designer's home tells a story.
Homes Check Out This Beautiful (Functional!) Closet Reno Sponsored Content California Closets brings forever home dreams to life.
Homes Everything You Need to Know for Your Wallpaper Feature Wall Calgary interior designer Aly Velji answers our wallpaper querieslike can I do this myself?!
Homes The Easy (Inexpensive!) DIY Artwork Trick We’re Obsessed With Want to blow up a beloved photo without blowing your budget? Here's our fave new designer trick.
Homes Design by Hashtag: 12 Best #ScandiStyle Photos on Instagram You already spend countless hours scrolling through social mediawhy not check out some Scandinavian-inspired design while you're at it?
Homes This Hawaii Vacation Home Will Have You Dreaming of a Tropical Getaway A Calgary family bought a lot with an unobstructed view of Molokiniand then built a vacation home that frames it from almost every room.
Homes We Sooooo Want to Borrow Ellen’s New Santa Barbara Home Sure, it needs some work...but what do you expect for $18.6 million?
Homes 7 Vintage-Inspired Living Rooms We Love Antique pieces are perfectly at home in these sleek modern designs. (Can you spot them? Its like I Spy but with furniture.)
Homes Inside a Luxe, Modern Whistler Cabin Designer Mitchell Freedland brings a contemporary spin to a classic Whistler home.
Homes Kristen Wiig is Seriously Into Mid-Century Homes The 'Bridesmaids' star just purchased a Case Study masterpiece in Pasadena.
Homes Before and After: 5 Incredible Home Renos Gorgeous transformations to inspire your next home makeover.
Homes Get the Look: A Timeless, Modern Living Room Designer Negar Reihani reveals her trick for mixing contemporary and traditional looks.
Homes Editors’ Picks: Our Favourite Homes for 2017 We love all the homes we feature in the pages of Western Living, of coursebut reflecting back on the past year, it's clear we've all got our own favourites.
Homes Make This Tonight: Queso Fundido with Salsa Verde We had a staff party at La Mezcaleria last year where they served this queso fundido and we're still talking about it.
Homes We Love This Scandinavian-Inspired Holiday Look Designer Aly Velji mixes patterns and textures for a cheerful, playful (and festive!) style.
Homes 6 Gorgeously Festive Holiday Tables to Inspire These beautiful table settings will impress every single one of your holiday guests.
Homes Photos: Inside a Nordic-Cool Home in Northern B.C. A historic community hall gets a second life as a warm and welcoming home for a young family.
Homes Photos: Inside a Nutcracker-Inspired Holiday Home A classic holiday ballet sets the stage for a not-so-traditional Christmas design theme in this west-side Vancouver home, part of the annual Homes for the Holidays fundraiser.
Homes How One Designer Gave New Life to a Century-Old Home in Calgary Designer Reena Sotropa restores a family home after the city's epic floods.
Homes A Glam Green-and-Gold Tablescape to Inspire Take your dinner parties to a new level with this tabletop look by Stephanie Brown.
Homes Photos: California Meets Calgary in This Sophisticated Home Designer Paul Lavoie brings some California cool to a Calgary home with views for miles.
Homes 7 Renovation and Design Tips from the ‘Masters of Flip’ HGTV power couple Kortney and Dave Wilson share their interior design and home renovation secrets.
Homes How California Closets Turns Storage Solutions Into Art Sponsored Content Tight corners, narrow spacesno problem!
Homes Photos: A Calgary Bungalow Gets a Modern Makeover Architects Dustin Couzen and Ben Klumper team up with Nicky Gretzen to design a sophisticated family home.
Homes 7 Spaces with Gorgeous Wood Accents Natural floors, custom furniture, live-edge detailswe can't get enough of these rooms that have been warmed up with wood accents.
Homes Photos: We Love This Black, White and Neutral North Vancouver Home As designer Andrea Rodman demonstrates, the key to a light and bright home is a little Scandinavian influence and a touch of black.
Homes 10 Clever Ways to Tidy Up Your Living Room Professional organizer Hannah Young shares her best tips for decluttering your most lived-in spaces.
Homes Get the Look: Moody, Monochromatic Mantel Designer Gillian Segal reveals her trick for revamping a dated feature fireplace.
Homes 10 Ways to Add a Touch Of Gold to Your Home These rooms are made absolutely fabulous by using a touch of gold, the essence of elegance.
Homes Photos: The Langley Farm Where Design Meets Garlic How a forgotten Langley farm inspired an interior designer and her IT executive husband to get into the garlic business.
Homes One Calgary Home, 11 Lessons in Energy Efficiency Sponsored Content A Calgary duplex designed by the team at Lighthouse Studios Residential Design is a prime example of sustainability.
Homes Sneak Peek: Inside North Vancouver’s Unique Edge House With striking angles and incredible outdoor living spaces, this North Van house is the perfect marquee for this year's Modern Home Tour.
Homes We Love This Moroccan-Inspired Outdoor Movie Theatre Interior decorator Neelam Gurm proves you don't need a backyard to get this quintessential summer look.
Homes A KonMari Pro Shares Her Organization Secrets Helen Youn has trained under Marie Kondo herselfget ready to declutter and spark some joy.
Homes 6 Dining Rooms with Scene-Stealing Chandeliers Dramatic overheard lights take centre stage in these gorgeous dining rooms.
Homes Photos: A Gorgeous, Open-Concept Modern Home in Calgary The right project (and the right clients) brought the team of Hindle Architects back to their hometown.
Homes 5 Closets We’re Crushin’ On In these homes, the closets are just as beautiful as the clothes that hang within them.
Homes 8 Island Retreats That Will Take Your Breath Away Cabins, cottages, vacation homeswhatever you want to call them, these B.C. island getaways are sure to inspire summer dreaming.
Homes Photos: An Eclectic, Artsy East Vancouver Heritage Home Every piece tells a story in PR maven Shannon Heth's family abode.
Homes Trend Alert: 3 Hot Colour Palettes for 2018 Sincerity, Affinity or Connectivitywhich of Sherwin-Williams's 2018 colour schemes do you love most?
Homes France, India and Calgary: One Home, Three Design Influences A fateful trip to Paris set the stage for the multinational influences in this Stephanie Brown-designed Calgary home.
Homes Get the Look: Modern-Yet-Playful Nursery Designer Elena Del Bucchia shows us how to design a nursery with a style that grows up along with the baby.
Homes Photos: Inside a Lofty, Art-Filled Vancouver Home A family home in Vancouver is equal parts light-and-airy gallery and warm-and-welcoming hideaway.
Homes Inside a Beatiful Concrete (and Energy-Efficient!) Vancouver Island Home With a focus on Passive House design principles, this Victoria home is built to last.
Homes Everything You Need to Know About Building a Remote Island Getaway Vancouver architect Jason King shares his tips for building a dream vacation home on B.C.'s Gulf and Discovery Islands.
Homes On Another Level: 6 Reasons to Love Sunken Rooms From living rooms and kitchens to patios and '70s-inspired conversation pits, there are myriad ways to make use of sunken spaces.
Homes Photos: Inside Vancouver’s Strikingly Minimal (and Controversial!) Cube House Vancouver architect Tony Robins thinks outside the box (pun intended) to design the polarizing Cube House.
Homes How One Designer is Restoring Victoria’s Historic Pacific Transfer Building Designer Nancy Riesco transformed a heritage building in Victoria's Old Town district into a stunning apartment block.
Homes We Love This Sophisticated, Boldly Coloured Calgary Home A fateful purchase of a brilliantly designed area rug was the start of a bold and beautiful colour palette in this stunning Calgary home.
Homes Design Inspo: Beachy, Scandinavian-Inspired Living Room How designer Lori Steeves used Scandinavian decor and a white-and-blue palette to freshen up a once-dark living space.
Homes 5 Smart and Inspiring Space-Saving Renovation Ideas Making a small space comfortable is a challenge more and more homeowners face.
Homes Home Tour: Inside a Colourful West Coast Loft Space A pair of architects gives an Arthur Erickson-designed loft a new lease on lifeand whole lot of love.
Homes Room of the Week: Gorgeous Gulf Islands Living Room A Vancouver design team reinvents an uninhabitable cabin and produces a wistful paradise on Mayne Island.
Homes 7 Reasons to Love Painted Feature Walls Trendy or not, feature walls are a design element that endures.
Homes We Love This Modern Okanagan Cabin Designer Robert Bailey reimagined the classic B.C. cottage while subtly respecting its roots.
Homes Design 101: How to Mix Your Fave Pattern Types Guidelines for mixing stripe, geometric, floral and organic patterns.
Homes 4 Clever Storage Solutions for Small Spaces Sponsored Content 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.
Homes Photos: Peek Inside the Historic Shannon Mansion The Beaux Arts beauty will be opening its doors for this year's Heritage House Tour.
Homes Photos: Inside Erin Ireland’s Open and Airy Family Home Food reporter Erin Ireland and her husband had the perfect renovation plannedand then along came baby.
Homes An Elegant Calgary Home Inspired by Big Sky Country A grand traditional-meets-contemporary house designed to host five or 50 manages to be both magnificent and homey.
Homes 15 Simple Ways to Refresh the Home for Spring Embrace the season with bright colours, fresh blooms and outdoor oases.
Homes Surrey: City of Tomorrow Sponsored Content In the rapidly growing city, Concord Pacific is upping the ante with its latest development, Park Boulevard.
Homes Get the Look: Dreamy Wallpapered Ceiling A cool new way to use wallpaper, according to designers Erin Chow and Megan Baker.
Homes Photos: Modern Design Meets Natural Beauty in an Island Retreat A home on Bowen Island captures forest and ocean views—and the happiness of its residents within.
Homes 6 Mix-and-Match Design Ideas for the Dining Room These unexpected table-and-chair combinations prove that opposites really do attract.
Homes 8 of Our Favourite Kids’ Rooms We all need a space of our ownand these eight kids, from newborns to young teens, have got it good.
Homes Sneak a Peek Inside This 103-Year-Old Historic Gatehouse The thoughtful renovation of a historic gatehouse by homeowner-and-designer Aliki Gladwin straddles Vancouvers past and present.
Homes How One Edmonton Design Firm Made the Most of a Narrow Lot Thirdstone's Louis Pereira saw potential where no one else could.
Homes We Love This Fashion Designer’s First Home Makeover Renowned fashion designer Paul Hardy takes on his first interior design project, with predictably dramatic results—think gold ceilings and chandeliers galore.
Homes North Vancouver’s Award-Winning Winton House This family home offers comfort while providing energy savings.
Homes Photos: How a Century-Old Home Became a Modern Beauty A family home in Vancouver's oldest neighbourhood is given new life (and a lot of love) with the help of Mango Design Co.
Homes A Vancouver Special is Transformed to House a Multi-Generational Family You've got to see this stunning renovation.
Homes Photos: Inside a Rustic-Industrial Calgary Reno How one Calgary family embraced a new style after the city's devastating flood.
Homes Victorian Design Elevates Westside Vancouver Sponsored Content Yukon Residences, the latest project by Alabaster Homes, combines location, amenities and style on Vancouver's Westside.
Homes 5 Gorgeous Entryways We Love These Western Canadian homes make a lasting first impression thanks to expertly designed entryways.
Homes Get the Look: Sophisticated Under-the-Stairs Storage Architects Jeremy Sturgess and Lesley Beale make the most of compact quarters with made-to-fit storage.
Homes 7 Rooms with Statement-Making Light Fixtures Warning: The following content contains gorgeous pendants and striking chandeliers.
Homes This Elegant Concrete, Steel and Cedar Home Will Take Your Breath Away A contemporary house in Vancouver pairs two unusual influences: modern Mexico and calligraphy.
Homes 9 Homes with Gorgeous Exteriors We spend a lot of time marvelling at beautiful interiors, but sometimes its what's on the outside that counts.
Homes Agassiz Home Offers Energy-Efficient Innovations in Building Techniques Sponsored Content Agassiz couple's desire for comfort and efficiency spawns collaboration.
Homes Room of the Week: Modern-Yet-Rustic Dining Room Designer Elena Del Bucchia seamlessly blends contemporary and cowboy styles at this Calgary ranch.
Homes A Cost Effective Alternative to Replacing Your Windows Sponsored Content How defogging your windows can make them look like new for a fraction of the cost.
Homes Check Out This Prefab Home Made for the Great (Remote) Outdoors Architect Michael Leckies new project takes a backcountry, Ikea-like approach to prefab housing.
Homes Room of the Week: Is This the Coolest Pool House Ever? How designer Dana Peers created a playful space fit for an entire family.
Homes How to Increase Your Home’s Energy-Efficiency Sponsored Content Rusco Industries's triple glaze HPE Argon windows can save you 15 to 25 percent on your heating bills.
Homes 9 Homes with Scene-Stealing Staircases Hitting your daily step count (aim for that 10,000, guys!) is easy in these Western Canadian homes.
Homes Home Tour: A Modern Condo Gets a Cozy Vintage-Inspired Makeover How one Vancouver couple made the transition from a large suburban house to a North Shore apartment.
Homes Room of the Week: Cozy Adults-Only Retreat How designer Lynn Gentile transformed an awkward space into an intimate lounge for two.
Homes How to Design a Gorgeous Gallery Wall Four designer ways to style your fave snapshots, prints and canvases.
Homes Have You Made Any of These Design Mistakes? Designer solutions to six common interior design problems.
Homes 7 Gorgeous Homes with Statement-Making Works of Art Big, bold artwork takes centre stage in these Western Canadian homes.
Homes 7 Essentials for the Perfect Office Desk Pantry And you thought desk drawers were only meant to hold stationery and pens.
Homes Clean, Defined, Redesigned Sponsored Content Sleek Burnaby Mountain remodel earns maison dêtre two Georgie nominations.
Homes Get the Look: Dark, Textural Feature Wall Designer Allison Holden-Pope shares her secret for grounding an open-concept space.
Homes We Love This Eclectic California Vacation Home Vancouver designer Mitchell Freedland gets playful with his Palm Springs rancher, incorporating bold colours, quirky patterns and plenty of California cool.
Homes Inside a Calgary Designer’s Fab Retreat in the Arizona Desert Calgary designer James McIntyre turns his Arizona vacation home into the ultimate design experiment with a one-of-a-kind Morocco-meets-Tom-Ford vibe.
Homes Architect Robert Burgers, a West Coast Legend, Passes Away He was a robust, loveable person who didnt seem interested in architectural fad or fashion or famejust on improving peoples lives."
Homes Photos: Inside a Glam Punta Mita Getaway In the luxe resort of Punta Mita, a Vancouver couple finds an idyllic slice of home away from home.
Homes 8 Beautiful Homes with Cool Concrete Floors Who needs tile and hardwood floors when you have sleek, industrial concrete?
Homes The Votes Are In: Your Favourite Stories of 2016! Here are the posts our readers loved most this yearbeautiful homes, West Coast road trips, designer profiles and more.
Homes Photo Gallery: Holiday Homes to Inspire From deconstructed wreaths, to full-on traditional decor, every one of these West Coast homes does holiday their way.
Homes We Love This Black and Metallic Holiday Look Designer Karin Bohn shares her tips for getting this non-traditional but oh-so-festive black, white and metallic holiday look at home.
Homes How One Calgary Design Firm Rebuilt a Home Destroyed by the Flood McIntyre Bills helps a family rebuild the home of their dreams after the citys epic flood.
Homes Photos: Inside a Mid-Century Modern Christmas Cottage For designer Ami McKay, the trick to holiday harmony comes in small shapes and sizeshandcrafted and simplified.
Homes 5 Tips for a Great DIY Renovation Mike Holmes Jr. of HGTV's Holmes + Holmes gives his top suggestions for a successful home renovation.
Homes 6 Design Ideas for Holiday Mantel Decorating Want to spruce up your mantel for the Christmas holidays? We rounded up six design ideas to inspire.
Homes Holiday Decorating 101 with Designer Kelly Deck The Vancouver designer shares her tips and shows us two inspirational tablescape looks you can try at home.
Homes 3 Ways to Layer Dramatic Style Into Your Home This Winter You'll want to stay indoors this winter thanks to these decor tips from interior designer Laura Melling.
Homes Jillian Harris Transforms a Heritage Home for the Holidays Jillian Harris of Love It or List It Vancouver turns a heritage home in Vancouvers Point Grey neighbourhood into a backdrop for a dream Christmas, past and present.
Homes 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.
Homes How to Decorate for the Holidays When You Don’t Care About the Holidays Designer Amanda Hamilton proves that festive doesnt always have to mean classic as she invites friends home for the holidays.
Homes Inside a Beautiful, Eco-friendly Saskatchewan Farmhouse With its beautiful views and energy-efficient design, Blue Heron Haus is everything its homeowners wanted.
Homes We Love This Mid-Century-Modern-Inspired Coastal Cabin A house on the edge of the Sunshine Coast finds its soul.
Homes Design Inspo of the Day: This Graphic Blue-and-White Dining Room One look at this Stephanie Brown-designed dining room, and you'll be on the hunt for blue dining chairs of your own.
Homes 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.
Homes 3 Living Rooms, 3 Hot Looks Three designers update three living rooms to make the most of a small space.
Homes Inside a Vegas-Inspired Port Coquitlam Condo Interior design duo Ivan Quintana and Erica Schmidt transform a pro poker players stock condo into a hybrid of West Coast-meets-Las Vegas luxury.
Homes A Stunning Calgary Home that Channels Napa Valley Charm Designer Nam Dang-Mitchell brings Napa Valley charm to Calgary. Who needs wine country when the best elements of an intimate resort are right down the hall?
Homes Dreamy Guest Room a Study in Fabulous Functionality A cleverly hidden Murphy bed helps this pretty guest room do double duty as a yoga studio.
Homes Inside an Airy Home Reno Connected to the Great Outdoors An innovative design in Vancouver from Project 22 Design takes creative advantage of outdoor spaces on both sides of the property.
Homes Where City Meets Sea Sponsored Content Downtown convenience meets oceanfront escape in this maison d'etre redesign.
Homes Get the Look: Luxe Basement Hideaway The trick to this look? Just pretend its not actually a basement.
Homes Entertain Beyond Your Four Walls Sponsored Content Adera's new South Ridge Club includes an amenities room fit for gatherings of any kind.
Homes 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.
Homes 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.
Homes How Light Gave New Life to This 1965 Point Grey Home Designer David Nicolay reimagined a cramped vintage space as an open-concept dream home that lets the sun shine in.
Homes 7 Sleek Ways to Use Subway Tiles How to incorporate this basic-but-beautiful-tile in your kitchen or bath.
Homes This Hamptons-Style House Will Blow You Away A sweeping window and an understated elegance makes this home in Victoria the perfect balance of timeless design and modernity.
Homes A Home That Puts Your Health First Sponsored Content The fitness facility at South Ridge Club makes it easier than ever to get active.
Homes More Than Just a Gymnasium Sponsored Content South Ridge Club's premium sports gym encourages resident fitness and a sense of community.
Homes South Ridge Club Poised to be the Best of South Surrey Sponsored Content Aderas latest townhome community features top rate amenities and a country club vibe.
Homes Refresh Your Home with Rusco Sponsored Content Calgary's family-owned Rusco Industries offers quality-assured exterior renovations.
Homes Inside This Modern West Vancouver Waterfront Home This renovated 1988 Russell Hollingsworth home will have you dreaming of a beach getaway. See it for yourself at this year's West Coast Modern Home Tour.
Homes Tour This Modern Cedar Sanctuary in the Woods This gorgeous, post-modern home is all yours to tour at this year's West Coast Modern Home Tour.
Homes Get the Look: Modern Monotone Layer textures and finishes to create a tone-on-tone look that feels fresh.
Homes Oak + Park: A New Westside Landmark Sponsored Content Alabaster Homes brings new life to significant Vancouver cross streets.
Homes Photos: Inside a Historic-Meets-Contemporary Calgary Home A new home in Calgary's Elbow Park takes notes from the historic neighbourhood and adds contemporary flair.
Homes Which Vancouver Home Tour is Right for You? A question for the ages. Check out our comprehensive guide and mark your calendars now.
Homes Photos: Inside One of the Only Art Moderne Homes in Vancouver See it yourself in person at the Vancouver Heritage House Tour June 5.
Homes A Role Reversal Renovation Sponsored Content maison d'etre owner Rob Capar invites us inside his own Vancouver condo.
Homes Photos: Inside a Chic Grey-and-White Vancouver Home Rich textures and a subdued palette make for a space with some serious sophistication.
Homes 7 Amazing Patios We Love Sun shining, cool beverage in handthere's no better place we'd rather be than sipping and sunning on one of these gorgeous patios.
Homes Reasons to Renovate Sponsored Content Trademark Renovations' Blair Foisy shares how renovating can make your dream home a reality.
Homes Photos: A Jaw-Dropping Split-Level with a View to Thrill Perched on a challenging site in West Vancouver, this concrete creation from design team McLeod Bovell is a revelation.
Homes Chez Montebello Sponsored Content The Montebello show home by Astoria Custom Homes brings French countryside elegance to the city of Calgary.
Homes A Heartbreaking End to Our April 2014 Cover House A lovingly restored mid-century gem looks to be facing the wrecking ball.
Homes Design Your Lifestyle Sponsored Content Calgary's Dorsia Designs builds homes to suit their owners.
Homes Get the Look: Dramatic Marble Mantel Create a Euro-cool look for your mantel with a visual trick.
Homes 5 Spaces That Celebrate the Great Outdoors Because we all know Mother Nature is world's best decorator.
Homes Photos: Inside This Modern Edmonton Renovation A new(ish) home in Edmonton gets a major overhaul for a young family.
Homes A Vintage Calgary Home Gets a Rare Fresh Start Designer Aly Velji gives a mid-century house a second chance.
Homes Throwback Thursday: Iconic Designer Turns Manufacturer Retailer, designer, manufacturer: William Switzer was a triple threat.
Homes Astoria Custom Renovations: A Name You Can Trust Sponsored Content Fall in love with your home again with award-winning designs by Astoria Custom Renovations.
Homes Video: How do you define home? Sponsored Content Three Vancouver households explore what home really means to them: space or place?
Homes How Kate Duncan’s Address Became a Can’t-Miss Design Event in Vancouver In just two years, the event in the Waterfall building has become a go-to for designophiles to spot up-and-coming and established talent in the city.
Homes Marpole on the Rise Sponsored Content The new Shaughnessy Residences by Alabaster Homes offer award-winning townhome designs and ideal neighbourhood amenities in the heart of up-and-coming Marpole
Homes Design Crush: The David Wright Home One of Frank Lloyd Wright's last residential designs is a tour de force of the master's late period.
Homes #InstaLove: Your Favourite Instagram Posts in February A London-style kitchen goes up against a modern concrete jungle.
Homes Why We’re Watching This New Designer Web Series Vancouver's Karin Bohn gives web audiences a behind-the-scenes look into the daily drama of running an interior design firm.
Homes Throwback Thursday: Artist Space From the ’80s This week we're throwing back to a feature on Canadian artist Otto Rogers, who perfected the art of 'workspace'.
Homes This 44-Year-Old House by Richard Neutra Will Blow You Away It looks like it could have been built yesterday andbonus!you can buy it for $5,500,000.
Homes Take a 3-D Walk Through One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unbuilt Gems An English engineer wants to build this design in the Village of Wraxhall and isn't having much luck.
Homes 9 Rooms That Prove You Need More Pink in Your Life It's no coincidence pink is one of Pantone's Colours of the Year.
Homes 5 Opulent Rooms We Love Bring on the gilded embellishments, the curlicues, the superfluous objets d'art!
Homes Throwback Thursday: Western Living Homes from the 1950s This week for Throwback Thursday we're digging deep into our archives to bring you some of our favourite home design stories from the 1950s.
Homes 6 Surprising Ways to Use Wallpaper Wallpaper pro Markella Mildenberger shares her top tips for incorporating a little pattern into your space.
Homes Throwback Thursday: Beautiful Bond-esque Hideaway from January 1977 This impressive architectural feat, designed by Werner Forster, has both a grand exterior and a secluded luxurious inner terrace, which is home to a pool that seems to hang suspended over a ferny ravine in Victoria.
Homes Get This Clean and Classic Look Finish formal furniture in a modern colour palette for a fresh look.
Homes These Stylish Children’s Rooms Will Make You Wish You Were a Kid Again Two playful looks we love for the perfect kids' room makeover.
Homes How to Design Your Dining Room Four smart tips from designers for making the most of your dining room design.
Homes 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.
Homes 4 Design Lessons From Living Rooms We Love Want to make over your living room? Take your cue from these gorgeous spaces from across Western Canada.
Homes The Home Cleanse: Stylist Tips for the New Year After the chaos of the holidays, we help you get organized with these clutter-busting tips from one of our all-star stylists, Nicole Sjostedt.
Homes Our Art Team’s Favourite Photo Shoots of 2015 Some eye candy for your holiday break, as selected by the WL art department.
Homes Cozy Cabin Roundup: 9 Winter Hideaways We Love Put on your chunkiest turtleneck, get a pot of fondue going, and dream of a slopeside retreat.
Homes Editors’ Picks: Our Favourite Homes of 2015 We know we shouldn't play favouritesbut with houses this beautiful always on our radar, sometimes we just can't help ourselves.
Homes Photo Gallery: Check Out This Sleek Modern Whistler Cabin A globe-trotting Mexican family fashions their ideal retreat in B.C.s ski mecca.
Homes 4 Hot Interior Design Trends for 2016 Our trend forecast calls for heavy doses of black, saturated and sumptuous furnishingsand texture, texture, texture.
Homes Trend Guide 2016: Contemporary Beach House Sandy shores and ocean palettes inspire a modern new nautical.
Homes Trend Guide 2016: Organic Luxe Ultra-layered, monochromatic spaces play up texture instead of colour.
Homes 6 Ways to Brighten Up a Dark Room Bring a little light into your space with these designer tips.
Homes 4 Decorating Tips for the Best Holiday Party Soha Lavin of CountDown Events shares her holiday decorating expertise.
Homes Sneak Peek: Homes for the Holidays Tour 2015 The annual fundraiser for Kids Help Phone kicks off this weekend: here's a glimpse into some of the homes.
Homes Inside a Heritage Home Decked Out for the Holidays A heritage home celebrates the past and the holidays in a modern way.
Homes We Love This Driftwood Christmas Tree Designer Carrie McCarthy skipped the classic pine in favour of some natural minimalism.
Homes Throwback Thursday: A Calgary Funhouse (Complete with Water Slide) A three-storey water slide brings a supersized splash of excitement to a Calgary family's already playful home.
Homes The Home Tour: Refined Island Cottage Inside designer Carrie McCarthy's Pender Island home, where simple luxury rules.
Homes Home for the Holidays with Michael Bublé The singer and Burnaby, B.C., native travels the world with his music, but when it comes to Christmastime, he always makes his way back home.
Homes Colour Blocking Moves From the Runways Into Homes From fashion to the home front, colour blocking is a visual dynamo.
Homes Home Reno Tips from TV Realtor Todd Talbot The Love It or List It Vancouver host shows us the real-estate side of the show's gorgeous home makeovers.
Homes Jillian Harris Shares Her Favourite Home Makeovers The Love It or List It Vancouver star looks back at her favourite home makeovers from the show.
Homes 3 Gorgeous Dining Room Looks to Inspire Three designers take on three dining rooms to create a trio of show-stopping looks.
Homes Design Lab: Measured Architecture’s Home Experiment A Vancouver home becomes an experiment in collaborative design between its architects and the artisans they work with.
Homes Kids Rooms 2.0: Designing for Contemporary Tots We chat to Calgary interior designer Nyla Free about design tips for today's kids' rooms.
Homes Home Tour: Calgary Hilltop Retreat With a rare view of both the city of Calgary and its mountains, this Sturgess Architecture home could do only one thing: capture it.
Homes Winning Work from IDIBC Shine Awards 2015 The Interior Designers Institute of British Columba announces its Shine Awards and Excellence program winners.
Homes Stylist Tips for a “Magazine Beautiful” Home Western Living stylist Nicole Sjostedt shares her trade secrets as part of Western Living Design Week's Conversation Series at Oakridge Centre.
Homes Editors’ Picks: Ultimate Reading Nooks The Western Living team looks back at our favourite spaces for reading, relaxing, and quiet contemplation.
Homes Don’t Miss: Western Living Design Week Conversation Series From how to work with colour, to how to work with a designerthe WL Conversation Series features top names like Amanda Hamilton and Measured Architecture.
Homes 5 Home Décor Hacks Designer Janette Ewen shares a few of her favourite ways to customize a space in a snap.
Homes It’s All Relative: 5 Designer Tips for Your Family Home Interior Designer Jamie Banfield shares his family-friendly tips and tricks.
Homes Throwback Thursday: Fireplace Fashions from 1979 We resurrect the best fireplaces of the late-70s.
Homes Design Advice: Baby Steps for Colour-Phobes "Life is too short to be lived in a beige box" Calgary designer (and colourphile) David Crosson
Homes Inside the Vancouver Modern Home Tour 2015 We get a sneak peek into featured homes on the Vancouver Modern Home Tour coming September 19.
Homes How to Create a Great Study Space at Home Set the kids up for a successful school year with a workspace to call their own.
Homes 14 Rooms with Amazing Views In the West we're positively spoiled when it comes to gorgeous sceneryhere's a collection well-designed rooms that make the most of it.
Homes Throwback Thursday: Secluded Island Home from 1976 We remember an island getaway with a distinctive shape.
Homes Throwback Thursday: Trading Furniture for Fur in 1978 We look back at a Spanish decorator's furry makeover of a tiny apartment.
Homes Room Renos: 11 Beautiful Before and Afters Many a makeover has graced the pages of Western Living over the yearshere's a look back at some of our favourites.
Homes Home Tour: Inside a New Kind of North Shore House Are the Houses at 1340 the new face of modern high-density housing?
Homes Throwback Thursday: Island Retreats from July 1983 Island lovers of the 80s share their visions of paradise
Homes Trending: White and Wood Home Accessories Bring the Scandinavian look home with our top six white and wood furniture picks.
Homes It’s a Scandinavian Takeover: Whites and Woods Invade the Home Here's why West Coast designers are borrowing design ideas from Scandinavian spaces.
Homes The Great Indoors: 11 Perfect Rainy-Day Retreats With spaces this calming and beautiful, we don't mind staying in.
Homes Video: How to Make Your Bed Like a Hotel Bed How do they get those corners so crisp, and those tucks so tight? We asked the experts to show us the tricks of the trade.
Homes Our Estergreen: Remembering Robert Ledingham For more than 30 years, a sunny patch of Washington State offered a retreat for architect Robert Lemon and his late partner, the great designer Robert Ledingham.
Homes Arthur Erickson’s Eppich House Gets a Second Chance A legendary Arthur Erickson home is given new life, thanks to a couple who take their custodial responsibility very, very seriously.
Homes 5 Ways to Love Your Home This Summer Make your home as efficient as you are. And get rewarded for it year round
Homes 10 Swoon-Worthy Modern Patios These gorgeous patios conjure up images of leisurely afternoons spent lounging in the sun and long, lazy outdoor dinners.
Homes 3 Fun Ways to Play With Paint Sheens Mixing and matching sheens can add a little personality to a room.
Homes Sneak Peek: West Coast Modern Home Tour We take you inside a modern Japanese-style house in West Vancouver.
Homes Get The Look: Cozy and Rustic With strong connections to our pioneer roots, we have 4 essential tips on how to create a rustic space.
Homes How to Introduce Colour Into Your Space There's no need to fear bold colourhere are 5 ways to get experimental with your favourite hue.
Homes Minimalist, Eco-Friendly Home with a Stunning Charred-Wood Exterior A retreat in Vernon, B.C., serves as respite for a pair of E.R. practitioners looking to make the Okanagan home.
Homes 5 Stylish Staircases for the Home We've gathered together some of our favourite staircases that combine fashion and function.
Homes Interior Design Inspiration: Liquidity Winery’s Modern Okanagan Home The owner of Liquidity Winery finds a piece of modern paradise, perched high over Okanagan Lake on the Naramata Bench.
Homes 5 Tips to Fake a Bright Space Designer Melissa Ennis gives us her top tips to brighten any room without a dramatic reno
Homes Home Tour: Playful and Elegant Coal Harbour Condo A Coal Harbour condo pairs feminine charm with a masculine edgeand some seriously cool wall treatments.
Homes Throwback Thursday: Pool and Alpine Garden Tips from May 1983 Western Living mines the pages of its 80s issue for advice gold.
Homes First Look Inside the 2015 PNE Prize Home Take a tour of the 3,000-square-foot PNE Prize Home destined for the Naramata Bench.
Homes Get Inspired: Vancouver house that blends modern and traditional design Designer Robert Bailey brings together the best of both worlds.
Homes Inspiring Home: How to Design Around Bold Artwork Life and art collide inside the Shaughnessy home of a celebrated Vancouver gallerist.
Homes Bright and Modern Mount Pleasant Condo A savvy realtor created a gorgeous modern spaceand then just had to live in it herself.
Homes From Boardinghouse to Bohemian Dream Home An eclectic, barn-like loft becomes the perfect home base for a creative marketing director looking for a space to call her own.
Homes Cozy Pender Island Cabin A home on Pender Island makes a big impression in just a few hundred square feet.
Homes A Renovation That Proves Kids and Sophisticated Style Can Co-Exist Kelly Deck turns a former dream home into a place better suited to its familys changing needs.
Homes A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Renovation Designer Ami Mckay reveals the warm, modern home disguised behind a dark and dated design.
Homes An NHLers Okanagan Dream Home A retired NHL goalie builds a dream home in the Okanagan--complete with indoor and outdoor rinks, of course.
Homes 4 Tips for Finding the Perfect Art Piece for Your Home Bau-Xi Gallerys Pennylane Shen shares her secrets for the emerging art collector.
Homes 4 Easy Ways to Refresh Your Space Breathe new life into your home for spring with these quick and foolproof tips.
Homes Bringing Bohemian Style into the Living Room A ho-hum space becomes a beautiful riot of colour and texture.
Homes How to Make the Most of Under-The-Stair Spaces Designer Ami McKay creates a design that turns awkward into functional.
Homes Connecting to the Cabin Cabin Pressures Colin and Justin fill us in on how to create the perfect personalized cabin without breaking the bank.
Homes Throwback Thursday: Industrial Style This trend featured in a kitchen from our March 2007 issue is back in a big way for its second generation.
Homes Designers At Home: Paul Lavoie’s Palm Springs-Inspired Space Once home to cocktail parties and a vibrant past, a mid-century home gets a second life thanks to designer Paul Lavoie.
Homes Designer Secret: How To Create A Unique Gallery Wall Calgary designer Erica Cook shares her tips for creating a gallery wall that showcases your memories in style.
Homes Designers At Home: Exploring Douglas Cridland’s Art-Filled Calgary Condo A decades-long collection of art provides the launch point for designer Douglas Cridlands condo.
Homes Designers at Home: Inside Stephanie Brown’s Gorgeous White and Gold Space Vancouver interior designer Stephanie Brown transforms a 70s condo into a white and gold stunner.
Homes Great Spaces: Bold Living Room This Edmonton space is oh-so-cozyand packed with plenty of personality.
Homes The Comforts of Home and the Luxury of Hotel Living: This Vancouver Penthouse Has It All Designer Robert Bailey was charged with setting up a respite in the top two floors of the recently built Fairmont Pacific Rim. First published in 2012.
Homes House of the Week: Island Retreat A Burrard Inlet island cabin for the price of a studio condo?
Homes Maximizing Space and Functionality in a Mount Royal Home Smart planning transforms a house made for two into a home for a growing family.
Homes Trade Secrets: Coffers Lend this Saskatoon Ceiling a Modern, Dramatic Edge Make the most of your ceiling space.
Homes Canmore Home Spurns Tradition, Goes Modern and Glam A Calgary couple sidesteps alpine-ordinary in their getaway without losing the view of their rugged surroundings.
Homes Gorgeous Whistler Chalet Renovation A bold renovation transforms a dowdy Whistler cabin into a modern marvel designed with entertaining in mind.
Homes A Vancouver Waterfront Property Gets an Artistic Makeover After being asked to reconstruct a private Vancouver seawall that had succumbed to high tides, architect Paul Sangha and his team created a wall thats as interesting to look at as it is functional.
Homes Holiday Home Decor: Renovated 1920s House A Vancouver designer turns a near-disaster reno into a classic, jewel-toned holiday charmer.
Homes 6 Designer Tips for Holiday Decorating Fill your space with good cheer and great style with these holiday decor tips from interior designer Heather Draper.
Homes How to Design a Room with Soothing Neutrals A neutral palette doesn't have to be boring. Designer Alykhan Velji shows us how.
Homes Holiday Decor Inspired by the Coast Christmas is equal parts haute, ho ho ho and happy home for a young B.C. family.
Homes Simple Touches Bring Holiday Spirit to a Modern Home Sweet and simple holiday decor is the perfect fit for a modern renovation in Vancouver.
Homes Modern Wine Room Why hide your favourite bottles down in the cellar? This elegant personal tasting room is designed to show off.
Homes Masculine Calgary Home Made with Natural Materials A Calgary designer uses smart planning and select materials to create an authentically designed home that still complements its venerable neighbourhood.
Homes Inside the Colourful, Art-Filled Condo of Cable Magnate Jim Shaw The Calgary pied-à-terre of a cable magnate is a showcase for artworkand the colour orange.
Homes Open-Concept Lakeside Cabin Buying a remote patch of Kootenay Lakes sublime shoreline secures one couple an ultimate escape from the citys hurly-burly (and one of the countrys finest patio views, too).
Homes Great Spaces: A Modern, New YorkInspired Dining Nook A trip to the Big Apple inspires an eating-area makeover replete with bold hues and cozy textures.
Homes Q&A with Interior Designer Heather Draper The Calgary designer shares her expert advice on designing with bold colours.
Homes Modern Beachside Home A summer beachside home from the team at Kelly Deck Design features on the second annual Vancouver Modern Home Tour.
Homes Inspiring Cottage Style: Gorgeous Gulf Island Retreat A Vancouver design team transforms a condemned Mayne Island cabin into an idyllic retreat from the big city.
Homes Sleek, Sustainable Modern Home A local builder's vision for a modern, energy-efficient home takes root in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood.
Homes 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.
Homes Trade Secrets Five designers share their best tricks of the trade for creating a smartly designed home.
Homes Modest Modern Seaside Cabin Practical meets poetic in a home on the coast, just right for hosting three generations.
Homes Stunning Renovation of a 1930s Home Once dark and cavernous, a West Vancouver home gets a light-filled renovation.
Homes Swanky Mid-Century Cabin on Pender Island The mid-century roots of this Gulf Island home provide inspiration for a breezy renovation.
Homes Inside JoieFarm’s Rustic Modern Winery Home in Naramata JoieFarm Winerys Heidi Noble and Michael Dinn bring a modern approach to living and working on the Okanagans Naramata Bench.
Homes Inside the Island Home of An Oscar-Winning Set Decorator Academy Award-winner Jim Erickson has created an island getaway as memorable as his movie set designs.
Homes Get the Look: Elegant Ivory Living Room A traditional ivory and black space gets a modern update with subtle, on-trend details.
Homes Modern Whistler Cabin A family cabin gets a much-needed upgrade from 80s relic to modern marvel.
Homes Stunning Oceanfront Bachelor Pad A seaside space is transformed into a modern, masculine condo, perfect for entertaining.
Homes Simple and Airy Art-Filled Home A Vancouver designer turns her sophisticated waterfront condo into a showcase for art and design.
Homes Steep Seclusion A cliffside residence in West Vancouver is designed for both public gatherings and quiet reflection.
Homes RenovationsDesign Legacy Nearly six decades after it appeared in this magazine, a Vancouver home is lovingly restored to its original glory.
Homes FlooringArt 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.
Homes Great SpacesDivine Dining Room Vintage-inspired details give this rustic-modern space a serious shot of Parisian glamour.
Homes Designers at HomeMichael Green Vancouver architect Michael Green creates a home thats made for the modern family.
Homes Designers at HomeMartine Ast The Calgary home of designer Martine Ast is a showcase for how modern and traditional style can live in harmony.
Homes Designers at Home: Alda Pereira Vancouver designer Alda Pereira has only one constant in her cozy family home: something's always changing.
Homes Mountain ModernWhistler Chalet Forget the bearskin rugs and flannel throws: this contemporary Whistler chalet is a sleek and stylish reimagining of the classic family cabin.
Homes Coach House ChicA Look Inside A Calgary Home A Calgary couple infuses a historic home with worldly style.
Homes Dreaming of a White Christmas Winter whites paired with silver and gold transform a Vancouver home into a holiday delight.
Homes Setting an Elegant Holiday Table Weve enlisted resident stylist Nicole Sjöstedt to create a look that will set the perfect festive stage.
Homes Three’s CompanyThe Perfect Laneway House This sleek laneway home is just right for a family of three. Thats because dad, Doug Weibel, was both the designer and general contractor. Look inside the perfect space he created for his family.
Homes Civil Union He loves cool modernism, she loves warm and cozy. The results? A beautifully designed compromise.
Homes Higher LearningLuxe (and Green) On-Campus Suite in Burnaby When the head of one of the city's greenest developments was ready to move, he wanted to lead by doing. A mid-century retreat became an eco-beacon.
Homes GET THE LOOK: Retro Glam Dinner Table It's bold, brash and unapologetic. Give your dining table a dose of retro glam with these designer tips.
Homes Summer Getaway: Rebuilt Modern Lakeside Cabin When a fire destroyed their beloved lakeside retreat, a Calgary couple turned tragedy into a bold new beginning.
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