That's one of the most functional kitchens I've seen in a while. So well organized.

I'm slightly confused about the layout of this house. The bedroom windows were so high up I assumed they are in the basement but it sounds like I am wrong about that?

This seems like a cool house that was really done a disservice by a tour almost entirely of close ups. Eek-Gawd-zilla!

Cute couple, nice art collection and use of textiles. And yes, that is a horrid fireplace surround!

Beautiful headboard. I like the textiles in this home. Very nice.

Yay!! Fellow Vancouverites!!!

I think the fireplace is gorgeous! Love your art collection.

Nice to see I'm not the only one with a small master bedroom. Yet, yours is a thousand times better decorated than mine. Cute place!!

Great pieces and furniture. Well done!

Lovely home. Really like the way you've used the hessian backing in the kitchen shelving, and yes, super organised layout in there too. I have a crush on your headboard as well, and the box shelving in your living room, but a bit afraid of the marauding dinosaurs in the loo. Thanks for sharing.

i almost didn't even look at this tour given the bohemian description (just not my personal fav). while it certainly is bohemian, it is also totally refined! it feels very 'clean' which doesn't always go with this style. anyhow, bravo. you have taken a style of decorating to a new and improved level, not an easy task! i really think your place looks great.

Ah! I love everything about the look and feel of their place. Love the urban/cozy look. And her necklace? SO cool!

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I've never had worse headboard envy in my life.

Wow, I grew up watching Adam Reid on Canadian television! This brings back a lot of memories of Alanis Morrisette getting slimed on You Can't Do That on Television.

Great house, very much a Canadian west coast vibe.

The shot of the living area is all that gives one an idea of the possible layout of the place. Please no more vignette close-up shots!

Really sweet home and really sweet seeming couple (the first picture of the two of you looking at each other is so loving). I love the art and the house plants.

This entire place is so inviting. I love it!

Does Sammy remind you guys a taller version of Marc Anthony?

OMG with the close-ups already!

Your home is gorgeous, warm and loads of light. Its my kind of place, and I love the individuality, I just want to relax with a good book in one of your lovely chairs. Well done, and it feels its been sprinkled with a relaxing vibe, and I can just smell the beeswax polish.

I love all the art,but why cant I ever get that look? I hang a bunch of pictures up,it ends up looking disjointed and cluttered! Lovely home,very warm and relaxing.Im also kinda glad to see REAL looking people instead of the impossibly attractive folks so often on here! Not to say they arent attractive,but yall know what I mean!

Hi thorndale,

My guess is that the house is a bungalow or perhaps a raised bungalow. It is quite common to see such windows (I am referring to the bedroom windows) in bungalows - it took me very long time to get used to it. Their house looks like it has fairly high ceilings, definitely higher than mine (my house is a raised bungalow although sadly on the west coast). :-) One thing that I find rather unappealing with such windows is that on the outside they appear to be situated right under the roof.

Thanks for the tour - I love your art collection.

That painting of the fish looks amazing.

I keep my T-Rex in the base of my ficus..

Close ups are ruining house tours on AT. Seriously, listen to the people who visit your site.

another vote for headboard love!
Very sweet couple.
Would have loved to have seen a picture of just the wall in the kitchen with the burlap treatment behind the shelving...the entire wall, not just the teacups section. The kitchen shade is lovely, the painting of the oranges very nice. A few too many closeups, but it does look like a lovely home and happy family.

Love it!

Great home. Nice use of textiles and wood. BUT:

*Enough of the vignettes already!!*

No offence, but the dinosaur, the stuffed toys on their kid's pillow, the bud vase on the bedside table...none of them are that interesting. They're not 'design elements', they're just cute stuff. We've all got it. It looks good in the context of a wider shot, but all these close-ups? No.

For what it's worth, I love the fireplace and would embrace it!

Sorry, but this is an odd post. Totally agree that there are way too many close-up shots and not enough medium or wide shots and it's disorientating and frustrating.

And based on the gushing comments reported about Los Angeles (not a word about Vancouver) they apparently should be renting a house there. Has Vancouver really not got a thing to recommend it?

Otherwise the house seems very nice, and I do like that glimpse of the chevron in the bathroom (again, would like a better shot). But actually I like what I can see of that fireplace!

I like the fireplace (maybe not its paint job) but its location is really peculiar, in a corner on a landing. Does it work?

The wood floors are beautiful. I think that and the light are my favorite aspects of this place. The kitchen also looks cozy.

Agree with the others that this post has way too many shots of possessions, taking away from understanding of layout and overall decor.

I have re-read this phrase three times now, and I have no idea what was meant: "...when she lived in LA, the city file her appreciation..." I think it's a spellcheck issue, but I'm not sure what should be in place of "file" there.

Love it!

Agree with other posters that I'd like to see fewer close ups, though.

Very nice.

This feels like it evolved from the owners and their life, and that's great---I could move in (with a little stuff of my own!). I personally love the fireplace, and its placement, too. Maybe that's supposed to be a sitting alcove, not a dining room ? Either way, I think it works.

I, too, am a bit fed up with the natures mortes approach to house tours: a picture of a can of beans and a necklace, or of (in this case) THREE pictures of a plastic dinosaur and one of a row of the bottoms of ordinary, mismatched teacups---come on, AT!

For me, the gold standard for the subject of objets arranged on a surface in a home (or home-emulating space) will always be the tabletop in Patrick the Other One's Bloomingdales' window: each object aesthetically stood on its own; the juxtaposition of objets and their overall proportion to the table, and the fact that they could be considered both aesthetically and intellectually, and so much could be known from them of the resident--or in this case designer--that it was pure joy.

Not that everything can or should meet this standard. Of course not. But is it necessary to sink to the other extreme?

ermagerd! LOVE the couch

I really enjoyed this tour. I, too, really like the fireplace - it's great and unique. Thanks for sharing your home!

I have just begun a new approach on deciding whether to squander my precious time on a house tour. Once I click 'Enter House Tour' I immediately do a "show thumbnails". At that point I can quick peruse if the tour is going to be of one of wide open shots that give me a sense of the space itself and how the occupants arranged their furniture/colors or whether it is mostly a collection of vignette shots. If it proves to be the latter I just exit. I don't have time to click through an endless collection of objets arrangements.

A++++++++++++. Kristin nailed it when she said that surrounding the family with the beauty of art in all its forms provides inspiration for all who live there, in everything they do. Our kids have said the same of our house--that their surroundings, whether art, books or music, collected though life, affect them profoundly in the way they think and act when they are out in the world. Proof that we need soul in our homes! Visually-sensitive people seem to do this instinctively.

Absolutely fantastic and I love the fireplace too. Nice to see fellow Vancouverites being profiled and geting local sources.

Oh man that kitchen! What a happy, inviting room. I also love all of the artwork and textiles throughout your home. Thanks for sharing this delightful space with us!

yay vancouver!! used to live not too far away, on commercial drive, and am now in new westminster. i miss east van - mount pleasant is a great neighborhood.

given the location, size, and quality of your place, i cringe to think of what you must be paying in rent!

This house has a great, warm feel to it. Love the use of black in the bedroom and bath. Really like this tour.

It's a lovely home that's uncluttered yet warm and lived in. I love the bright colors every where you look. And I thought the closeup shots were used well to illustrate some of the techniques described in the article.

I would suggest those unhappy with detail shots follow the suggestion of checking out the thumbnails first as outlined in the earlier post. I do that when I think the design style might not be my thing. And then take a pass on the snarky comments.

I don't know why people don't like the close-up shots in house tours. Let's face it, a lot of us either rent or don't have the bucks or freedom (perhaps as condo lovers) to be knocking down whole walls and doing grand-scale renovations to a place -- so, instead, what brings the personality to our places will often be the furniture, the accessories and the wall art.

Having said that, I'll add that I enjoy a variety of shots -- from ones showing the layouf of a room -- how furniture is grouped, etc., -- and how a tricky room like a bathroom or kitchen is designed -- but also the tight detail shots as well. I say: Keep 'em coming! :)

Mount Pleasant is such a wonderful neighbourhood, if I could only afford to live there *sigh*
To the author, we don't have zip codes in Canada we have postal codes.

"Most of their home is curated and collected pieces of artwork and souvenirs from traveling." What does this mean exactly? I adore the fact they have filled their house with artwork and memories so skillfully, but I, too, respectfully request some additional wide shots. I like to see the displays of jewelry and special vignettes in context of the whole room, not just close-ups.

very nice!! all your things have perfect scale for the space and i LOVE the dark wall with contrasting wallpaper in the master bedroom. really makes that space pop! beautiful!!

Great, comfy home! Would love to have seen more of it.
Sooo nice to see tours of homes in my own city!

No TVs? I wish I could do without, but I love my Criterion collection too much. :)

Especially love the kitchen. Beautiful and functional.

I love the vibe of this house. I would love to know how you wrapped the linen on the stair railing- facing a similar situation and this is such a genius way to add texture and solve a problem at the same time!

I like this house and I'm wondering about their house in Toronto as well. Love the headboard - it's beautiful.

Oh, I think Kristin has a new series starting in Canada - best of luck!

If you ever tire of that headboard, please let me know. It is so gorgeous and a great idea for using a favorite fabric. Thanks for sharing your home with us!!!

Mt. Pleasant! I'm going a bit crazy trying to figure out exactly what they live in-- renovated older house or Arts/Crafts look new build townhouse (I'm going with the latter) and which part of the neighbourhood they live in (I'm around Main and Broadway myself).

I'd be totally happy with that fireplace, to be honest.

And I'm fine with the close ups, but please please AT provide a floorplan with the House Tours. It would make such a difference to look at a tour without having to deduce the layout.

My guess, with the fireplace, is that they've switched the dining room and living room; the fireplace area is where the couch is "supposed" to be. I still like the fireplace a great deal, I have to say!

Glad you didn't cover up the art deco fireplace. You might not like it and it certainly doesn't go with your decor, but in and of itself, it is stunning. In the right setting it will be magnificent. Hopefully the owner will keep it or resell it to a desirous buyer.

this is a fantastic home. the best i have seen in a long time- i love the mix of textiles, color & no color...very refined bohemian indeed! i like the look of the couch, but always thought they are not very comfy or conducive to really lounging about...

I can look at this tour all day, simply beautiful.

Kitchen envy, headboard envy. Beautiful place!