Constructive Comment: Creative ways to transform spaces

Last week, I attended a talk in Burnaby by Vancouver planner Michael Mortensen entitled Is Small Beautiful? Some of the key takeaways were design tips for how to make the most of increasingly smaller spaces, particularly the idea of using the same living space for multiple purposes.Following Mortensen’s talk, I reached out to Laurel James, principal designer of Novell Design Build, to learn more about trending designs related to this concept.
To begin, I learned that the great-room concept