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PLUS: WL People's Choice Awards Finalists announced next week!
This is the big day: when we announce the finalists for our 2025 Western Living Designers of the Year awards!
Western Living‘s Designers of the Year competition is, of course, our annual celebration of the best designers in Western Canada, and 2025 marks our 18th anniversary. Winners are featured in the September issue of the magazine and online at westernliving.ca, as well on our Instagram and Facebook.
Winners will also be celebrated at (in our humble opinion) the design party of the year: the Western Living Designers of the Year awards party, taking place at Cantu Bathrooms and Hardware on September 11, 2025.
Our Western Living People’s Choice awards, presented by Thermador, will be returning for our 2025 awards season, and we’ll be announcing the finalists on Monday, June 9—which will be your chance to vote for those projects that take home our 2025 Western Living People’s Choice Awards.
The winners for this reader-selected honour will be announced live on stage at our annual Designers of the Year Awards event on September 11 in Vancouver at Cantu Bathrooms and Hardware, too. Tickets are now on sale for this party of the year!
PLUS:
The Icons Award! We’ll be celebrating leaders in our design community for their mentorship and influence over the Western Canadian design scene. Stay tuned for this announcement.
And now, drumroll please…. here are this year’s finalists.
Frits de Vries Architect Ltd.
Laura Killam Architecture
MA+HG Architects
One Seed Architecture + Interiors
Scott Posno Design
Splyce Design
Synthesis Design Inc.
&Daughters
Ashley de Boer Interiors
Formwerks Interiors
Hillary Rutherford Interiors
Louis Duncan-He Designs
Mera Studio Architects Inc.
Schédio Spaces
Smiddy Stegman
Studio Felix
Andrea Blais
E. V. Stenroos
Scandinavia Wolf
The Sonja Picard Collection
Autonomous Furniture
Buckshee Woodshop
Caliper Studio
Gillian Segal
Kerfwork
Marrimor Objects
Romney Shipway
Wayne Halabourda
Alykhan Velji Designs
Annaka Hoelk Studio
KLC kreativ
Mike Randall Design Ltd
Supermarket Studio
Amanda Evans Interiors Inc.
Amanda Hamilton Interior Design
Bidgood
DWK Interiors Inc.
Gillian Segal Design
Kelly Deck Design
Mera Studio Architects
Project 22 Design Inc
Stephanie Brown Inc.
Andrea Copp Ceramics
Danica Kaspar
HEFT Designs
Sfossils
Studio Brovhn
Congrats to all of our 2025 Western Living Designers of the Year Awards finalists!
Curious who took home Western Living Designers of the Year titles in the past? Check out the winning designers from years past, or sort winners by category.
And in the meantime—get your tickets to the design party of the year: the Western Living Designers of the Year awards party, September 11 at Cantu Bathrooms and Hardware. Tickets are on sale now!
The editorial team at Western Living loves nothing more than a perfectly designed space, place or thing: and we’re here to tell you about it. Email us your pitches at [email protected].
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