HOMES
Coastal
ZONES A designer gives a Hamptons inspired beach house feel to her home on Canada’s relaxed West Coast. TEXT CHRISTY WRIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY TRACEY AYTON
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J STYLEATHOME.COM JULY/AUGUST 2021
en O’Donnell is as relaxed as her family home. “When I’m asked about my design process, I really don’t know how to put it in words,” says the designer. “I just…do it.” Even so, one look at her family’s Ocean Park abode in South Surrey, B.C., (which she shares with her husband, two daughters and labradoodle Duke) and many words spring to mind: light, airy and casual among them. “I was inspired by modern beach houses in the Hamptons and wanted open, well-planned spaces.”
