For the first time in WL Designer of the Year’s 17-year history, projects from all of our 2024 finalists were eligible for a WL People’s Choice Award.

Our brand new WL People’s Choice Awards were voted on by you, the reader—celebrating one dynamic project from each of our finalists in this year’s Western Living Designers of the Year awards.

The wait is finally over: below are the winners of our inaugural People’s Choice Awards.

Winner: Architecture

Bird’s Wing Passivhaus and Duplex One Seed Architecture and Interiors

This innovative custom duplex includes two primary units, each with a flex suite—addressing the ongoing “missing middle” issue in the housing crisis.

Finalists: Architecture

Alma House, Measured Architecture

Ancient Cedars, Openspace Architecture

Feng House, BLA Design Group

Halfmoon Bay, Frits de Vries Architects and Associates Ltd.

In/Out Residence, RUFproject

Mid-Century Revamp, Lamoureux Architect Inc.

Modern Californian, Alloy Homes

Project One, Dda Architecture Ltd.

Winner: Emerging Architect

Rock Bluff House Laura Killam Architecture

Rock Bluff House
Photo by Andrew Latreille

This off-the-grid island home is a gorgeous meditation on coastal living, and an ode to the landscape surrounding it.

Finalists: Emerging Architect or Residential Designer

Beam House, Tano Studio

Bird’s Wing Passivhaus and Duplex, One Seed Architecture and Interiors

East Van Duplex, Noble Architecture and Interiors

Feng House, BLA Design Group

Panorama, Shelter Residential Design

Winner: Emerging Interior Designer

The Crescent Jocelyn Ross Studioworks

A modern renovation in one of Vancouver’s original neighbourhoods brings a 1909 home back to glory.

Finalists: Emerging Interior Designer

Colwood House, Erica Colpitts Interior Design

Grizzly Hill, Form Collective

Lottery Home 2023, Rochelle Cote Interior Design

Pacific Promenade, Schédio Spaces

Ramsay House, Brianna Hughes Interiors

Soft Retreat, Smiddy Stegman

Vibrant Global Penthouse, Louis Duncan-He Designs

Wolfhagen House, Nako Design

Winner: Fashion and Jewellery

Sun Manifest Affirmation Love Note Sonja Picard Fine Jewels

A piece designed to empower the individual who wears it, and remind them that the light they seek is always within them.

Finalists: Fashion and Jewellery

Aeon 03D Ring, Andronyk Studio

Athena Goddess Earrings, Scandinavia Wolf Designs

Flourish Earrings, LanaBetty

Helix Cuff, Orii Design

Salish Sea Ring, E.V. Stenroos

Winner: Furniture

Bouba Studio Heidle

The intentionally close design of this table and chairs set challenges our ideas of how form can impact presence, togetherness and shared experience.

Finalists: Furniture

Access Privacy Pod, Onetwosix Design

Aria Coffee Table, The Stables Woodshop by Jeff Mann

KDOM Table, Shipway Living Design

Mini Plano Credenza Pair, New Format Studio

Navana Chair, Ffabb Home

Nieves Table, Autonomous Furniture

Rampart Console, Ben Barber Studio

Stance Side Table, Buckshee Workshop

Weave Console, Caliper Studio

Winner: Industrial Design

Flow Nikki Alagha Design

A playful exploration of handmade forms, the shade of this light is made with liquid glass draped over a handmade mould.

Finalists: Industrial Design

Access Privacy Pod, Onetwosix Design

Mini Plano Credenza Pair, New Format Studio

Rampart Console, Ben Barber Studio

Standing Mirror, Ryan Boechler

Winner: Interior Design

Woven Cardero Renocon Design Center

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A home designed to create a narrative of light, texture  and space, with the views inside just as dynamic as those outside its windows.

Finalists: Interior Design

Alma House, Measured Architecture

AVD Rosedale, Alykhan Velji Designs

Britannia Residence, Stephanie Martin Interior Design

Jericho House, Sophie Burke Design

Mid-Century Modern, HB Design

Oceanview, Pure Design Inc.

Shawnigan Lake, Andrea Rodman Interiors

Southlands, Project 22 Design

The Tree House, Ola Hiraeth

White Palms, Stephanie Brown Inc.

Winner: Landscape Design

Stirling Arm Biophilia Design Collective

A lakeside property that balances wilderness with drought-tolerant plantings and perennials that invite key pollinator species.

Finalist: Landscape Design

Myra Canyon, Alexander Suvajac Landscape

Winner: Maker

Vancouver Home Fiona Dalrymple Fine Art

This custom piece captures a shoreline scene with silhouetted trees in colours and tones complementary to other design elements in the home.

Finalists: Maker

Bear Cache, Regan Appleton Design

Nihilo Stairs, BJB Woodshop

Omphalotus Grove Table, Scandinavia Wolf Designs

Rational Desk, Pablo Mariano Craft Studio