About a quarter of our work is commercial — workspaces, yoga studios, dental practices, real estate offices, small-format retail. We approach it the same way we approach a home: material-led, place-specific, designed for the people who will actually use the space, not the photograph that will be taken of it on day one.
What we take on
Workspace and office — SRAM Canada headquarters in North Vancouver is the anchor. Hospitality and wellness — Moov Yoga Studio in Vancouver is a tenant improvement that balances acoustic performance with warmth. Retail and professional services — Stilhavn Real Estate in Squamish, Chief Dental clinic interiors. Our commercial work tends to sit at the boutique-scale, branded-environment end of the market — not big-box, not corporate lobbies.
Branded environments, not branded interiors
The strongest commercial work doesn't feel like the brand has been painted on the walls — it feels like the brand lives there. At SRAM that meant curved meeting-room walls that echo the shape of a bicycle gear, a backlit logo wall in rolled steel, and a material palette of oak, rubberized floor, and natural steel that reads as the brand's own workshop vocabulary. The logo appears three times in the whole space. The brand is everywhere.
How commercial differs from residential for us
Faster timelines — most commercial TIs run 6–10 months from brief to move-in. More technical coordination (acoustic, mechanical, egress, accessibility). Different cost structures — a commercial landlord's TI allowance often shapes the budget. And the end user is a team, not a family, which changes how we approach space planning: zones for focus, zones for gathering, zones for the things people always forget (coat storage, noise-absorbent corners, coffee).
Where we work
Commercial projects in Whistler, Squamish, and Vancouver. Small hospitality, boutique retail, workspace fit-outs, and professional service environments. Typical project size is 1,500–15,000 sq ft.
Work that shows the thinking.
Common questions.
Do you take on corporate offices larger than 15,000 sq ft?
Do you work with retail landlords on TI packages?
Can you coordinate our brand team and our build team?
Do commercial projects cost less than residential per square foot?
Let’s talk about how your family lives.
Every project starts with a conversation about who you are and how you actually live.