Location
South Surrey, BC
Photography
Jay Li
Category
Residential
Year
2025
This project was conceived as a memory box, a quiet container that gathers the homeowners’ love for travel, coffee, and plants into a cohesive living environment. Rather than displaying souvenirs, the design reinterprets the emotions of travel through daily rituals.
The living room sets the tone through a palette of clear, optimistic colors and a series of floating pendant lights.
The living room sets the tone through a palette of clear, optimistic colors and a series of floating pendant lights. Suspended gently within the space, these elements introduce a sense of lightness and movement, allowing moments of reading, resting, and sharing coffee to feel slightly lifted from the ordinary, as if each day begins with the promise of a small departure.
Throughout the home, natural materials, warm wood tones, and restrained details establish a calm and grounded atmosphere. Plants are not treated as decoration, but as living companions that bring rhythm and seasonality into the space. The kitchen becomes a place of daily gathering, where making coffee unfolds as a quiet ritual within everyday life.
The bathroom is composed of minimalist fixtures, where clean lines are gently balanced with a subtle sense of warmth. Natural textures introduce a restrained, quietly rustic atmosphere.
Rather than pursuing novelty, the project values continuity, allowing memories and habits to settle gradually into the space. The home becomes not a destination, but a collection of moments, unfolding slowly and accumulating over time.