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Decorating + Design

Playing with Design

Playrooms inspire opportunities for creating spaces perfectly suited to our youngest residents BY DANIELLE POPE | PHOTOS BY: DASHA ARMSTRONG Simplification is one of today’s most popular design principles, and…

Spruce Spring Issue 2023 (Forevering your home)

Renovations

Forevering your Home: A look at what your house and investment will need in the long run

Considering what your house will need in the long run will turn your investment into a legacy. BY SHANNON MONEO Greater Victoria home prices will likely never plummet. For those…

Digging up the Dirt - Spruce Issue Spring 2023

Landscape Design

Creating a functional luxury garden space

BY DANIELLE POPE | PHOTOS BY LIA CROWE In a city lauded for its extravagant gardens, springtime welcomes with it a certain fervour for digging up the dirt. It takes experience,…

Spruce Spring Issue 2023 (Interior Refresh - Enliven your space with three effective methods for this year’s spring renewal)

Decorating + Design

Interior Refresh: Three effective methods to enliven your space this spring

BY WENDY MCLELLAN The first signs of spring show themselves — from those little shoots of green in the garden to the hint of warmth in the air — and…

Decorating + Design

Design-Forward Mudrooms

Can a well-designed mudroom bring you joy? You bet it can. BY CAROLYN CAMILLERI While not every home has a mudroom, every home has a space that serves as one.…

Custom Builds

Lakeside Getaway

A Shawnigan Lake build brings a modern twist to this cabin in the woods. BY DANIELLE POPE | PHOTOS BY JODY BECK Ashley Howard has a soft spot for Shawnigan…

Landscape Design

The New Perennial Garden: A Guide to Design and Care

Perennial gardens offer a naturalistic expression of billowing grasses and pollinator vignettes. They also offer many benefits to the native ecosystem and to us as homeowners and land stewards.