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Innovative design and smart planning create a lush, private outdoor space.
This client’s outdoor courtyard came with a number of interesting challenges—including limited access, structural hurdles, and existing landscape design. The D. A. Dunlevy team built a custom ramp to create ingress from the street, allowing us to bring in all of the materials and plantings.The courtyard has been transformed into a private, tucked-away place for the owners to relax with morning coffee, escape with a good book, or provide an overflow area for visiting guests. The design remained sympathetic to existing architecture and landscaping, utilizing black granite stepping stones and other elements to create cohesion. Clean lines were established with a modern custom bench and stone planter wall. The greenery was chosen to create a simple and structured feel, using narrow European Hornbeam trees for an aerial hedge and adding in boxwoods, nandina, hellebores, and creeping Jenny to round out the verdant, calming effect.

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Innovative design and smart planning create a lush, private outdoor space.
This client’s outdoor courtyard came with a number of interesting challenges—including limited access, structural hurdles, and existing landscape design. The D. A. Dunlevy team built a custom ramp to create ingress from the street, allowing us to bring in all of the materials and plantings.The courtyard has been transformed into a private, tucked-away place for the owners to relax with morning coffee, escape with a good book, or provide an overflow area for visiting guests. The design remained sympathetic to existing architecture and landscaping, utilizing black granite stepping stones and other elements to create cohesion. Clean lines were established with a modern custom bench and stone planter wall. The greenery was chosen to create a simple and structured feel, using narrow European Hornbeam trees for an aerial hedge and adding in boxwoods, nandina, hellebores, and creeping Jenny to round out the verdant, calming effect.
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Innovative design and smart planning create a lush, private outdoor space.
This client’s outdoor courtyard came with a number of interesting challenges—including limited access, structural hurdles, and existing landscape design. The D. A. Dunlevy team built a custom ramp to create ingress from the street, allowing us to bring in all of the materials and plantings.The courtyard has been transformed into a private, tucked-away place for the owners to relax with morning coffee, escape with a good book, or provide an overflow area for visiting guests. The design remained sympathetic to existing architecture and landscaping, utilizing black granite stepping stones and other elements to create cohesion. Clean lines were established with a modern custom bench and stone planter wall. The greenery was chosen to create a simple and structured feel, using narrow European Hornbeam trees for an aerial hedge and adding in boxwoods, nandina, hellebores, and creeping Jenny to round out the verdant, calming effect.

This family home was overwhelmed by oversized furniture, floor to ceiling storage units filled with clutter, piles of storage boxes, dark walls, and an overall feeling of disorganization. Of the many hurdles we tackled was pairing down the oversized furniture pieces and removing many of the large shelving units, a massive decluttering and organizational effort, lightening the dark walls, and then bringing in artwork and accessories to add character to the otherwise plain space.

Even a guest bathroom deserves a touch of luxury. In our downtown project, reimagining this secondary bath came with its share of challenges — from outdated cast iron pipes and knob-and-tube wiring to hidden structural issues.
Through thoughtful planning and meticulous design, we overcame every hurdle and delivered a space executed to absolute perfection.

This upgrade had some unexpected hurdles to overcome that made this project complicated and unique. We completed this well known coffee
shop renovation working under tight timelines, no plumbing or electricity and restricted access. Our team not only completed the project on time and met budget expectations, but our client and Richmond Centre. Landlord were left impressed with our work ethic, project management and the final result.

On this remodel, my biggest challenge/goal was to ensure that the kitchen looked like one space. This was challenging because we expanded the kitchen into the dining space that had a 3' ceiling height difference and windows that we didn't want to cover. To overcome this hurdle, I designed a hanging soffit that was supported by oil rubbed bronze rods, which created a lighter look and allowed the light from the windows to be unobstructed.

We used: Custom cherry cabinetry in Arts & Crafts Shaker style by Kabinart in Boulder and Espresso stains. Liberty Hardware Venetian bronze 1-1/2" cabinet knobs. KitchenAid Architect II Series 22 CF counter-depth French door refrigerator. KitchenAid Architect Series II 27" convection single wall oven. KitchenAid 36" 6-burner dual fuel freestanding commercial-style range. KitchenAid Architect II Series 24" dishwasher. Sharp Insight Pro Series 24" built-in microwave drawer (Model #KB6524PS). Crystorama Solaris 12" wide pendant lights in English bronze. Granite countertops in Brown Fantasy. 3"x6" polished marble backsplash.
Paint colors:
Walls: Glidden Silver Cloud 30YY 63/024
Ceilings/Trims/Doors: Glidden Swan White GLC23
Robert B. Narod Photography

Mis-matched mirrors - this is truly wow factor at its finest.
Biggest hurdle here was ensuring the rough-in wiring was at the perfect height and that the spacing was perfect when everything was installed. I think we nailed it!

Even a guest bathroom deserves a touch of luxury. In our downtown project, reimagining this secondary bath came with its share of challenges — from outdated cast iron pipes and knob-and-tube wiring to hidden structural issues.
Through thoughtful planning and meticulous design, we overcame every hurdle and delivered a space executed to absolute perfection.

Even a guest bathroom deserves a touch of luxury. In our downtown project, reimagining this secondary bath came with its share of challenges — from outdated cast iron pipes and knob-and-tube wiring to hidden structural issues.
Through thoughtful planning and meticulous design, we overcame every hurdle and delivered a space executed to absolute perfection.

Even a guest bathroom deserves a touch of luxury. In our downtown project, reimagining this secondary bath came with its share of challenges — from outdated cast iron pipes and knob-and-tube wiring to hidden structural issues.
Through thoughtful planning and meticulous design, we overcame every hurdle and delivered a space executed to absolute perfection.

This almighty Oak staircase was one of our more challenging ones to build and install but we pulled it off!
The first hurdle was installing the treads (from the top) onto the central post which was difficult with the extremely heavy 4″ thick solid Oak treads.
The staircase was finished off with our custom designed steel hand railing which required a large amount of onsite welding. The result is a staircase that has to be seen in situ to get a sense of its impressive stature!
Photo credits: 2020 © Ray Chan Photo, All Rights Reserved

This project was a commercial law office that needed staircases to service the two floors. We designed these stairs with a lot of influence from the client as they liked the industrial look with exposed steel. We stuck with a minimalistic design which included grip tread at the top and a solid looking balustrade. One of the staircases is U-shaped, two of the stairs are L-shaped and one is a straight staircase. One of the biggest obstacles was accessing the space, so we had to roll everything around on flat ground and lift up with a spider crane. This meant we worked closely alongside the builders onsite to tackle any hurdles.

New year, new goals! ?️
Has anyone else ever written up a long list of new year resolutions, only for the year end to roll around and you haven't crossed anything off? Been there, done that.
Jump start your life in 2023 by tackling your biggest projects in full force (and yes that includes finally remodeling your kitchen)! The biggest hurdle is getting started. Once you do that, we’ll handle the rest!

This project was a commercial law office that needed staircases to service the two floors. We designed these stairs with a lot of influence from the client as they liked the industrial look with exposed steel. We stuck with a minimalistic design which included grip tread at the top and a solid looking balustrade. One of the staircases is U-shaped, two of the stairs are L-shaped and one is a straight staircase. One of the biggest obstacles was accessing the space, so we had to roll everything around on flat ground and lift up with a spider crane. This meant we worked closely alongside the builders onsite to tackle any hurdles.

This project was a commercial law office that needed staircases to service the two floors. We designed these stairs with a lot of influence from the client as they liked the industrial look with exposed steel. We stuck with a minimalistic design which included grip tread at the top and a solid looking balustrade. One of the staircases is U-shaped, two of the stairs are L-shaped and one is a straight staircase. One of the biggest obstacles was accessing the space, so we had to roll everything around on flat ground and lift up with a spider crane. This meant we worked closely alongside the builders onsite to tackle any hurdles.

This project was a commercial law office that needed staircases to service the two floors. We designed these stairs with a lot of influence from the client as they liked the industrial look with exposed steel. We stuck with a minimalistic design which included grip tread at the top and a solid looking balustrade. One of the staircases is U-shaped, two of the stairs are L-shaped and one is a straight staircase. One of the biggest obstacles was accessing the space, so we had to roll everything around on flat ground and lift up with a spider crane. This meant we worked closely alongside the builders onsite to tackle any hurdles.

This project was a commercial law office that needed staircases to service the two floors. We designed these stairs with a lot of influence from the client as they liked the industrial look with exposed steel. We stuck with a minimalistic design which included grip tread at the top and a solid looking balustrade. One of the staircases is U-shaped, two of the stairs are L-shaped and one is a straight staircase. One of the biggest obstacles was accessing the space, so we had to roll everything around on flat ground and lift up with a spider crane. This meant we worked closely alongside the builders onsite to tackle any hurdles.
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