Melissa Hardwick

Vancouver homeowners live in a city that can't decide what it wants to be. Pacific Northwest wilderness bumps against glass towers. Asian influences mix with European sensibilities. Everyone's moving here from somewhere else, bringing opinions about what homes should feel like. The design aesthetic? Chaotic in the best possible way. Spend an afternoon walking from Yaletown through Mount Pleasant and the variety becomes almost comical. Minimalist condos that look like Scandinavian showrooms. Character houses stuffed with vintage finds and travel souvenirs. Industrial lofts that somehow incorporate driftwood and succulents. This isn't a city following one design playbook—it's a place where bespoke interior design Vancouver projects succeed precisely because they ignore what everyone else is doing and respond to specific people in specific spaces with specific problems to solve. Why Everything Here Uses Wood (But Not Like You'd Think) Living in Vancouver means constan...