When a high-end builder decides to design their own home, the bar is already high. When that builder has a precise vision, a sharp eye for detail, and a stack of reference images collected over years of knowing exactly what they like — the bar gets higher still. For this project, that wasn't a challenge. It was an invitation.

The process was deeply collaborative from the start. Rather than filtering the clients' references into something more manageable, the goal was to understand what they were really responding to in each image — the proportion, the material, the feeling — and translate that into a design that was coherent, site-specific, and genuinely theirs. The result is a contemporary home that feels personally authored rather than assembled from a catalogue.

The site demanded careful thinking about orientation and privacy simultaneously. The rear of the home opens to sweeping mountain and ocean views — a defining feature of life in Squamish — but the proximity of back neighbours required deliberate screening strategies that protect that sense of retreat without compromising the connection to the landscape.

At 4,300 sq ft, there was room to honour every detail the clients cared about. Getting each one right, down to the last finish and sight line, is what makes this one of those projects that both client and designer look back on with genuine pride.