Sarah Gallop Design Inc.

10/17/2026

Framing is underway on a new custom home in North Delta, and the first walls are beginning to give shape... the rendering shows where this is heading: steeply pitched rooflines, stone set against pale masonry, dark-framed windows, and an arched entry that softens the approach.

The mature trees on this property are being protected for retention throughout construction. It is a quiet but meaningful commitment, one that allows the finished home to settle in among established trees rather than on an open lot, with the shade, privacy, and sense of place that only time can grow 🌳💕

There is a particular satisfaction in this stage, when the drawings begin to stand as structure. We look forward to sharing more as the home takes shape.

Design Sarah Gallop Design Inc.

10/16/2026

A custom home built with one clear intention: to get every detail right.

The homeowners knew the work before the first meeting, first through a Houzz portfolio, then closer to home, where several SGDI residences were already complete or underway on their own street. Having built before, they understood what makes the difference: thorough planning, and a set of documents that leaves nothing open to interpretation.

That is the foundation of every SGDI project. Each drawing and specification is detailed and organized so the home can be built exactly as designed, and the design team works alongside the builder and trades to carry that intent through construction. Every request was heard, and the most significant decisions were given the time they deserved, without the project ever losing its course.

From the barrel-vaulted entry and walnut stair to the covered terrace overlooking the water, each detail was resolved on paper long before it was built. The result is a home made for gathering family and friends, and one they are proud to call their own.

Design Sarah Gallop Design Inc. | Photography Paul Grdina Photography

10/13/2026

We’re giving away 10 pairs of tickets to the Vancouver Fall Home Show, courtesy of our friends at West Coast Windows

Whether you’re dreaming up a renovation, planning a custom home, or simply gathering inspiration for the season ahead, this is one of our favourite ways to spend a fall day in the city 🍂

To enter, comment below letting us know you’d like a pair. The first 10 people to comment will receive a message from us with pickup details. One pair per person, please.

A big thank you to West Coast Windows for making this possible. We hope you enjoy the show! Vancouver Home Shows

📅 Show Runs October 15 to 18, 2026
📍 Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building
Thursday: 4 pm to 8 pm
Friday: 12 pm to 8 pm
Saturday: 10 pm to 8 pm
Sunday: 10 am to 6 pm

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10/12/2026

Thanksgiving is, at its heart, a gathering 💖 A table set for more than usual, a house full of voices, and a home quietly doing what it was designed to do.

This season, we are grateful for the homeowners who have trusted us with their homes, the builders and trades whose craft carries each design into reality, and the community we are fortunate to design for.

From all of us at SGDI, we wish you a warm and restful Thanksgiving, shared with the people who make your house a home 🥰

10/10/2026

Jewel on the Bluff is an Award Winning Tsawwassen home where the w**e room was designed as architecture, not as display. 🍷

A w**e room can easily become a showpiece, a glass box of bottles meant to be looked at. The more considered approach treats it as a room in its own right. The materials relate to the rest of the home. The lighting is handled with intention, enough to show the room, restrained enough to protect what it holds. The storage is built in rather than installed on top.

Here, the w**e room belongs to the home. It connects to the spaces around it through its intrigue, so it reads as part of the house rather than a feature bolted onto it. The craft of its making matches the craft everywhere else.

The best features in a home are not the ones that announce themselves. They are the ones designed as carefully as the rooms around them.

2026 Finalist – Custom Home valued $6,000,000 – $10,000,000
2026 Winner - Best Primary Suite: Renovated or Custom Home
2026 Finalist – Best Custom Home: $5 Million – Under $10 Million

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Construction | Photography .ca
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10/07/2026

A home is easy to design for a bright afternoon in July. The more demanding test is a Tuesday evening in February, when it has been dark since half past four and the rain has not stopped for a week.

On the winter solstice, Vancouver receives just eight hours and eleven minutes of daylight, compared with sixteen hours and fifteen minutes in June. Through December, the sun is actually visible for under two hours a day on average.

The angle of that light is the more interesting design problem. At solar noon on the solstice, the sun sits around seventeen degrees above the horizon in this region, against sixty-four degrees in June. Low light travels further into a room, and it arrives at eye level, which is why a window that feels generous in summer can be uncomfortable on a January afternoon.

Homes that work well through a coastal winter tend to share the same qualities. They are oriented deliberately, their glazing is placed rather than maximized, light travels between their rooms, and their lighting works in layers that are warm and dimmable.

The full piece, including the three layers of lighting and why warm white between 2700K and 3000K matters here: https://sarahgallop.com/natural-light-home-design/

Natural light home design on the West Coast: how orientation, glazing, and layered lighting shape a home through eight-hour winter days.

10/07/2026

For as long as people have built homes, rooms have gathered around a fire 🔥

The hearth is one of architecture’s oldest organizing principles, and in a considered home it still is. A room composed around a fireplace has a natural centre, a place the eye settles and the furniture turns toward. The proportion of the surround, the material that frames it, and the way it meets the floor and the wall all decide whether the hearth anchors the room quietly or competes with it.

A fireplace designed as architecture does more than warm a room. It gives the space a focus and a stillness, a reason for everything around it to arrange itself the way it does.

The rooms we return to are often the ones built around a fire ❤️‍🔥

Designs Sarah Gallop Design

10/03/2026

There is often a wish, at the start of a project, to move quickly. It is understandable. A renovation or a build is disruptive, and the finished home is the thing everyone wants.

But considered design takes the time it takes, and the time is not a delay. It is the work. 🕰️💕

The resolution of a plan happens through iteration, testing an arrangement, living with it, adjusting it, until it is right rather than merely workable. Proportions are refined. Sight lines are checked. Every material and junction is aligned with the ones around it. Decisions made in sequence, each informed by the last, cannot be made all at once. Rushed, they become a series of reasonable choices that do not quite add up. Given time, they resolve into a home that feels inevitable.

This is the quiet trade at the heart of considered design. Time spent early, in thinking, is time not spent later, in regret or renovation. The home designed slowly is almost always the home that needs changing least.

A home you will keep for decades is worth designing slowly 👌✨

Design Sarah Gallop Design Inc. | Photography Ishot
Construction Novak Contracting & Construction ltd.

09/30/2026

🌿✨ Today we honor National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Let's celebrate the strength of Indigenous cultures, the beauty of unity, and the power of truth. 🌍💙 Join together in sharing stories, and reflecting on the journey toward healing. Together, we embrace hope for a brighter future! 🍁🤝

09/30/2026

California Dream is an award winning West Vancouver custom home where warmth comes from texture and restraint, not from ornament.

The warm neutral palette, the reclaimed terracotta brick, and the smooth oak hardwood were drawn together, early, as a single composition. The result is an interior that feels layered and inviting without ever feeling crowded, where each material is given room to be seen.

Every decision serves that balance. The reclaimed terracotta brick bringing a character that new materials take decades to earn. The oak hardwood offering a calm, even counterpoint to the brick's texture. The hardware and fixtures chosen to enhance the space rather than overwhelm it.

An interior designed this way does more than look warm. It feels warm, in the hand and underfoot, every day it is lived in.

🏆 2024 WINNER Canadian Home Builders' Association of BC Georgie Awards Best Interior Design Custom Residence

Design Sarah Gallop Design Inc. | Build Upward Construction - North Shore Custom Home Builder & Renovator | Photography Ishot