We are proud as punch to announce that Rodrozen Design + Build are finalists in the 2023 Georgie Awards. This is certainly not our first foray into designing and building something beautiful and being recognized by our peers. The Georgie Awards are the premier BC design and construction awards that recognize the best of the best by a panel of judges who are impartial as to who the designers and builders are. So awards are given on merit of their challenges, how they were overcome and the end results.

We have been nominated for two of our stunning designs and builds this year. We would like to share a little bit about them before the awards are presented in May this year.

HARBOUR HAVEN

This condominium renovation is our art collector's dream home. We designed this home around our homeowner's love of art. We created a stunning hallway art gallery that features a showcase glass display of a rather unique sculpture for our homeowners.

A full hallway-length millwork with starphine ultra-clear glass and LED up lighting features space for artwork to be displayed on. As well as individually lit art for the wall space.

In the entranceway, we reconfigured the space to create an open laundry and mud room space. In addition, we built a custom-designed home theatre room featuring vertical wood millwork features and a custom-made sofa for enjoying the latest movies.

Our homeowner's entertaining requirements were exceeded by designing a wine and cocktail bar with LED lighting, custom wine glass holders, preparation space and soft-close wine racks.

We further expanded on the art display theme of this Vancouver renovation by creating an extensive millwork storage feature in the dining space. This includes a niche with LED lighting for the smaller art items to display and a precisely sized niche with wood trim for artwork to be located prominently over the oval dining table.

Finally, we create a kitchen for our homeowner's dream, a large countertop kitchen island, plenty of storage everywhere, a pull-out pantry and a disguised office space behind two slide-in pocket doors. You can see more of this condo renovation here.

NAUTICAL DREAMING

Our second of two nominations is a condo renovation that we completed in Yaletown, Vancouver. Overlooking the False Creek harbour area, this renovation features three bedrooms and two bathrooms to cater to a growing family's needs.

The most significant challenge this project involved was moving the kitchen from one side of the condo to the other. This involved creatively designing services to and from the kitchen from different parts of the house. We were pretty happy to have pulled this off, as the result is a beautiful open home condo where the kitchen is now included in the social flow of the home.

We moved the adjacent bedroom over to where the kitchen used to be and built an internal window into this bedroom to allow our homeowners to keep a close eye on their children.  

Other layout changes included increasing space in the master bedroom to incorporate a long cupboard for clothing while adding a laundry space into the existing kitchen area for storage and an HVAC system for efficient cooling and heating.

Our design touches included a photo art gallery in the hallway with a panel that can be replaced with photographs when the homeowners desire new ones. If you would like to see more on this design and build please have a look here.

We are very fortunate enough that clients come to us and trust us to be able to create beautiful homes. We never design our homes to be award-winning. However, projects like these allow us to include them in our award submissions.  

We are looking forward to May when the Georgie Awards take place, and we hope to be able to bring you news of the result once we know.