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East Vancouver Main Floor Renovation

Two layouts explored, one chosen: a soft-edged main floor with the kitchen running the full rear of the house.

ProjectMain Floor Renovation

LocationEast Vancouver

ServiceFull-Service Design

StatusConcept · preferred plan selected

Concept rendering of an East Vancouver main floor with a curved white oak banquette and an oval dining table

Concept rendering · A HART HOUS design.

The brief

Where it started

This main floor needed a layout that worked, not just new finishes. Before settling on a direction, I designed two complete kitchen options so my clients could compare them side by side and choose with confidence.

They chose the second option. The main floor bathroom was part of the same design.

The concept

The design

Concept rendering of the chosen East Vancouver main floor plan: a white and oak kitchen open to the dining area

Concept rendering of an East Vancouver bathroom with sage green tile, a black rain shower and wood niche shelving

Concept rendering of an East Vancouver bathroom with sage green tile and a large window

The other option

The option we didn’t choose

Option one kept a galley kitchen. Seeing both side by side made the choice easy, and that’s the point of designing it first.

Concept rendering of design option one for an East Vancouver main floor: a galley kitchen in white oak

Second concept rendering of the galley kitchen option for an East Vancouver main floor

Before

The before

The decisions that made it work

4 decisions, and why I made them.

01Dining moves beside the living roomIn the chosen plan, dining sits next to the living room and the kitchen runs across the full rear of the house, giving each zone more room to work.02Soft curves, one connected spaceRounded edges carry through the plan, and the dining area is designed as part of the kitchen rather than a separate room, so the main floor reads as one.03The floor draws the lineThe edge of the original hardwood marks where one zone ends and the next begins, so the layout feels intentional without adding walls.04A calm, green bathroomSage tile, a rain shower and built-in wood niche shelving carry the same warm, natural palette into the bath.

Status: concept · preferred plan selected