This Canadian family’s main residence in Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is very modern. In order to make it that way, they had looked to Houzz for an interior designer, found Andrea Rodman and hired her to give it that style. But for their vacation home on nearby Shawnigan Lake, they wanted to go for something markedly different. They called on Rodman again. “They wanted this house to have more of a traditional, beachy cottage feel,” she says.
The homeowners wanted the kitchen to serve as a hub where family and friends could congregate. “They wanted a lot of space for people to be able to sit and feel comfortable in here,” Rodman says. This was a full renovation that included ripping out the dated design elements, reconfiguring the awkward layout, widening openings to other rooms and replacing the windows and doors in the dining bay. Rodman mixed light wood and white for a light and airy feel and tailored the traditional cabinets to feel like freestanding furniture. And she reworked the contemporary dining bay to match the rest of the home’s new, more traditional style.