– Phrases via Angela Cowan Images via Don Denton
After spending 15 years construction high quality customized cabinetry for purchasers’ new properties, Ann-Marie and Jason Fifield of Heronwood Customized Cabinetry ultimately had the chance to make use of their experience on their very own dream house, and the outcome is a beautiful farmhouse with each a standard and a graceful design that appears out over a impressive view of Mt. Prevost.
Having already undertaken a hefty renovation in their rural house in Duncan, the couple had no quick plans for construction once they bought the four-acre lot adjoining to theirs 5 years in the past.
“It used to be thick woodland, and we mainly purchased it as an extension for our boys to mountain motorbike and play,” explains Ann-Marie.
She and Jason slowly began construction an inventory of design concepts and drafting some visions for the valuables.
Then, “Simply as COVID-19 approached, we concept we did want extra space and a house place of work, and we began the method with Pacific Space Design,” she says.
With two younger boys and their canine operating round, high quality, sturdy fabrics had been peak of thoughts, in addition to ensuring the distance used to be as useful because it used to be gorgeous.
Finished final July, the farmhouse is shiny and ethereal, its black and white external finishes are vintage and trendy, and its inner design is thoroughly deliberate to flooring the distance with consistency and magnificence.
A streamlined entrance front gives a easy bench and row of wall hooks subsequent to a double set of floor-to-ceiling cabinets, preserving the road of sight tidy as you progress into the good room, the place a surprising stone fireplace surrounds a wood-burning hearth beneath a cathedral-peaked ceiling.
Turning, it’s herbal to stay transferring into the kitchen, the place a sizeable island of sunshine quartz and herbal oak gifts a large area to sit down, devour, prepare dinner or chat. The house has customized built-ins right through—shelving flanking the hearth, on the entrance front, in Ann-Marie’s expertly designed house place of work—however it’s right here within the kitchen that Heronwood’s experience really shines, particularly in the main points.
A furnishings kick runs alongside the interior of the island, making it simple and comfy to face and get ready foods. Added panels and posts support the normal aesthetic, whilst the sunshine quartz counter tops lean extra fashionable and graceful. Satin brass {hardware} elevates the already sublime white cabinetry, at the side of the curving two-stage crown moulding and large window trim. Glass-fronted cupboards run alongside the highest, lit via a cushy glow inside of, whilst an absolutely glass cupboard adjoining to the window gives a perfect spot to show favorite dishes.
Throughout the cabinetry are probably the most maximum attention-grabbing options. Past the panelled refrigerator and freezer, a number of doorways disclose inventive designs. There are rollouts beneath the entire sinks to keep away from the rest getting misplaced within the recesses. An equipment carry on one aspect of the island properties the {couples}’ stand mixer, on the in a position and simply tucked away when accomplished. The nook cabinet via the huge porcelain farm sink is are compatible with a mechanism that’s part lazy Susan and part pullout, that swings out in a semi-circle after which attracts the deep within cabinets out. Even hanging apart the allure and great thing about the design, the home is exceptional for having completely 0 unusable or wasted area in all of the design.
Leaning into that potency, a butler’s pantry simply across the nook additionally serves as a laundry room and dirt room, once more using each and every sq. foot for the most productive use. A media room, Ann-Marie’s house place of work and the master bedroom anchor the opposite 3 corners of the bottom surface. Upstairs is the lads’ area, with two bedrooms—every fitted with a shiplap function wall so as to add a dash of colour—a rest room performed in darkish honeycomb tile and with a concrete quartz countertop, and an open playroom.
“I splurged at the carpet,” says Ann-Marie, smiling. “It’s wool, and I simply completely adore it.”
The thick pile underfoot and angled roofline within the boys’ playroom conjures up a comfortable sense of mountain-top dwelling, and offers the circle of relatives a slightly of familiarity within the new construct.
“I adore it,” says Ann-Marie. “We’ve all the time had outdated persona properties, so as to have this one angled ceiling, it nonetheless has that really feel of an outdated house.”
Heading again downstairs, particularly putting is the number of lighting.
“I used to be truly explicit with the lighting fixtures package deal that we selected,” notes Ann-Marie.
The good room chandelier—a phenomenal black iron ring studded with uncovered vintage-style bulbs—creates a showpiece that right away catches the attention. However much more spectacular is the second one chandelier that hangs on the precisely the similar top from the outdoor peaked patio roof. Within the afternoon, the pair of lighting fixtures create a neat mirroring impact; at night time, the mirrored glow turns out to develop, and connects the nice and cozy front room to the huge sky and stars past. That iron end is echoed within the eating room fixture, square-edged however with equivalent bulbs, and ties the 2 areas in combination. Additionally complementary are the brass-finished library lighting fixtures atop the integrated shelving surrounding the hearth and the placing cone fixtures over the island.
Amazingly, all of the construct handiest took about 8 months, even in the course of pandemic delays and hindrances.
“Our prime degree of potency and group is what lets in our corporate to construct properties in a truly well timed model,” explains David Vandine, of Vandine Development. “We don’t waste time. There’s one thing going down each day on our initiatives, and I feel I’m maximum happy with our consideration to element and the prime degree of high quality we give our purchasers.”
“Each room has gorgeous customized cabinetry,” he provides of the construct. “The kitchen became out fantastically, and the entire space used to be truly well-detailed. We’ve been the usage of Heronwood for our cabinetry for a very long time now, and we unquestionably suggest them to our purchasers first.”
“High quality used to be giant for us,” provides Ann-Marie. “We would have liked much less sq. pictures, and with the lighting fixtures, plumbing fixtures, the millwork right through the house, we would have liked to get high quality in that. And with Vandine Development, we had been so inspired and comfortable with how they controlled the undertaking. They stored our construct on time—which isn’t conventional within the trade—and we had been frequently within the loop all the way through the entire procedure, which made our first construct appear achievable.”
Doing the construct from scratch, she and Jason had been ready to way every resolution with quite a lot of attention, partly as a result of that they had spent see you later making plans the construct.
“We had been our personal designers within the procedure, so paint main points, trim main points, our {hardware} for the doorways, the whole thing used to be truly concept out previous to construction,” she explains. “Sticking to the way of design right through the house used to be vital to us. Ensuring the whole thing felt attached to the design. Even with my place of work, it’s inexperienced after which my son’s function wall proper above is inexperienced. And my different son’s room is blue, and the media room under it’s blue.”
“I’ve been dreaming since we began our trade 15 years in the past that someday we’d be the shoppers,” she says with amusing. “And it’s precisely what we’d like.”
This gorgeous home is heading to the marketplace, and Brian Danyliw with The Company would be the record agent.
SUPPLIERS:
Architect/Design:
Pacific West House Design
Inside Design:
Heronwood Customized Cabinetry
Development & Inside Completing: Vandine Development, Strickland Completing Carpentry
Inside Drywall:
Gordon n’ Gordon Interiors
Portray: Black Sheep Portray
Cabinetry and Millwork:
Heronwood Customized Cabinetry
Ground: Hardwood Valley Flooring; carpet via Jordans Ground Nanaimo
Tiling: Town Tile, Cowichan Tiling
Doorways: Windsor Plywood
Home windows: Westeck Home windows
Lights: Mclaren Lights
Plumbing Fixtures:
Splashes Tub and Kitchen, EMCO
Counter tops: Flo Shape
Woodstove: South Island Fireside
Fireside Fireplace/Stonework:
Raven Stoneworks
Home equipment: Coast Home equipment
External Siding:
Joneson Siding and Soffits
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