View across the quartz-topped kitchen island to charcoal grey arched built-in shelving flanking the living room fireplace.

ALDERWOOD

Coastal Blue

A newly renovated living room with custom charcoal grey built-in shelving flanking a modern fireplace with a light wood mantle.

Client Goals & Needs:A growing family needed their home to do more. They wanted space to host extended family, a proper place to work from home, and rooms the children could grow into. One word came up over and over as we planned. Storage. The brief was practical and beautiful, in equal measure.

Project Type:Full Interior Renovation

Square Footage:3,000 sq. ft.

Location:Alderwood

Services rendered:

Architectural design
Interior design
Construction

Range wall with a custom white hood surround, a glazed subway backsplash and the arched window over the sink beside it. — Kitchen

White shaker kitchen with a quartz-topped oak island, walnut and white stools and warm brass pendants over pale oak flooring. — Kitchen

Tight on the custom hood surround, the upper shaker cabinetry and the arched window casing beside it. — Kitchen

Integrated panelled tall cabinet beside the stainless french-door fridge, showing the flush cabinetry surround. — Kitchen

Cabinet drawer bank with integrated finger pulls under a mitred quartz counter. — Kitchen

Undermount composite sink with a brushed nickel pull-down tap, set into the quartz counter below the window. — Kitchen

Walk-in pantry standing open beside the range, with full-height white shelving inside. — Pantry

Island end with the oak staircase and the dark arched built-ins behind. — Kitchen

Open-plan main floor with the kitchen island on one side and the dark built-ins and fireplace on the other, joined by pale oak floors. — Great room

Fireplace surround with a floating oak mantel and the dark arched built-in beside it. — Living room

Built-in shelving grid in dark painted millwork with an oak floating shelf running across it. — Living room

Oak staircase with white square balusters and an oak handrail beneath a glowing ring pendant. — Staircase

Full flight of the staircase, with oak treads, white risers, square balusters and the newel post. — Staircase

Upper landing lit by a skylight, with the full railing run and white-trimmed windows. — Upper landing

Under-stair reading nook with white built-in shelving, a cushioned bench and oak treads climbing overhead. — Reading nook

Reading nook seen with the stair stringer above, showing the built-in bench and shelf assembly. — Reading nook

Powder room with a dark vanity under a quartz counter, a brushed nickel faucet and oak wall shelves on curved brackets. — Powder room

Two oak floating shelves carried on curved brushed nickel brackets. — Powder room

Primary ensuite with a light oak double vanity, twin mirrors and sconces, a dark fluted tile wet area and a freestanding tub under the skylight. — Primary ensuite

Vanity run with the dark fluted tile wet area beyond, pairing the tile work and the cabinetry. — Primary ensuite

Freestanding tub beneath the window in the vaulted ensuite, with a floor-mounted chrome filler. — Primary ensuite

Main bathroom vanity with the arched structural opening through to the blue accent room beyond. — Main bathroom

Tub and shower wall in white tile with the vanity opposite and the blue accent wall between them. — Main bathroom

Light oak vanity with a white quartz counter and a glass-doored walk-in shower in blue-grey tile. — Main bathroom

Field of blue-grey vertical stacked tile, a pure tile setting detail. — Main bathroom

Stacked white tile shower over the tub with a recessed niche and a chrome rainfall head. — Second bathroom

Grey subway shower with a white-trimmed recessed niche behind the glass panel. — Second bathroom

Laundry with white shaker upper cabinetry, a counter run over the machines and a textured white tile backsplash. — Laundry

Laundry sink set into the counter beside the machines, against the textured white tile field. — Laundry

Built-in fireplace wall in the primary bedroom, with flanking tall white cabinetry and an oak mantel shelf. — Primary bedroom

Vaulted primary bedroom with the linear fireplace, the oak mantel shelf and a wall of white built-in wardrobes. — Primary bedroom

Built-in closet system with a hanging rail, open shelving and a bank of drawers. — Walk-in closet

Basement feature wall with lit display niches above a long floating oak bench and matching cabinet doors. — Basement

Design inspiration

The palette is East Coast coastal, warm and calm. White walls and cabinetry, charcoal grey millwork, and natural oak underfoot and up the stairs. Arched shelving, shaker doors, and an arched window over the kitchen sink soften the modern lines, so the house reads as a seaside home that happens to sit on an Alderwood street.