Sarah Gallop Design Inc.

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

09/28/2026

Back in the office today with minds brimming of fresh inspiration from Interior Design Show Vancouver 💡✨

Thanks again Liz Kecki Sherwin-Williams for bringing us to the show this year❣️

09/24/2026

Looking forward to seeing the art lovers tonight! 🥂🎨Everyone loves w**e… of course you’re welcome too 😉
Ladner Business Association Chaberton W**ery Dana Fetherstonhaugh Tsawwassen Orthodontics and Periodontics Theresa Moleski Sarah Gallop Design Top Shelf Design **estroll2026

09/23/2026

Fixed-price or cost-plus? It is one of the first questions homeowners ask before building a custom home, and it is rarely the one that decides the outcome. 📃🖊️

After years of guiding clients through both, we've watched fixed-price and cost-plus projects each go well, and each go sideways. The deciding factor was almost never the contract. It was whether the design was finished before anyone signed.

A price set against an unfinished design is not a price. It is an estimate, and change orders move it upward no matter which structure you chose. A fixed price is only as fixed as the drawings behind it, and a well-run cost-plus, priced from a complete design, holds a build accountable in much the same way.

Choose the structure that fits how you prefer to manage risk. Just don't let that choice stand in for finishing the design first.

Our latest post explains how each contract works, and how to protect your budget either way. Read it through https://sarahgallop.com/fixed-price-vs-cost-plus-contracts/

Fixed-Price vs. Cost-Plus Contracts for custom homes: learn what determines your final cost and how to protect your budget either way.

09/23/2026

A quiet technique in architecture, felt in every considered home: compression and release.

A passage that draws in, lowers, and narrows, before opening into a room that lifts and expands. A modest entry that gives way to a generous principal space. The tightening is deliberate. It is what makes the release that follows feel expansive.

A room entered directly, with no compression before it, rarely feels as open as one you arrive at through a narrower passage. The contrast is the effect. Architecture shapes not only where you are, but how the space before it made you feel on the way in.

This is why a home of a single, uniform openness can feel strangely flat, while a home that breathes, tightening and releasing as you move through it, feels alive.

The strongest homes are not uniformly open. They are composed as a sequence of held breaths and long exhales.

Design Sarah Gallop Design with niki Build Clay Construction Custom Homes | Video .ca

09/22/2026

The powder room is the one space in a home where restraint gives way to a single, concentrated gesture. 💄

In a larger room, considered design means holding back, letting the architecture recede so the space can breathe. In a powder room, the discipline shifts. Because the space is small and self-contained, it can carry a bold material, a sculptural fitting, or a dramatic wall that would overwhelm a bigger room. It has a small stage entirely to itself, and one confident decision can be the whole story.

Each of these rooms takes that idea somewhere different. What they share is not a look, but an approach. One gesture, made with conviction, and nothing else competing with it.

The smallest room in a home is often where a single, confident decision carries the most.
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Designs Sarah Gallop Design Inc.

09/19/2026

A question worth asking in any home: why does one room feel calm and correct, while another, filled with beautiful things, feels slightly off?

The answer is almost always proportion.
The size of things, in relation to each other and to the human body.

A ceiling height that suits the footprint of the room. A window scaled to the wall it sits in. A passage wide enough to move through without thinking about it. A large space brought down to a human scale by a lower ceiling or a defined zone, so it feels held rather than vast.

None of this announces itself.
Proportion is the most foundational tool in architecture and the quietest. When it is right, you feel at ease and cannot say why. When it is wrong, no finish or furnishing will fix it.

A room feels right long before you notice a single thing in it.

Design Sarah Gallop Design Inc. | Build Monolith Design Build Ltd

09/18/2026

The dog days of summer ask something of a home. Long light, warm afternoons, and the pull to be outdoors for as much of it as possible. 🌞

For this South Surrey custom home, the living space extends past the glass and onto the terrace, where a covered outdoor room, a pool, and a shaded pergola hold the day from morning through to the last of the evening sun.

There is a quiet logic to a house that lives well in every season. Deep overhangs for shade. Glass doors that open the interior to the garden. Outdoor rooms placed to follow the light. When a home is planned this way, the warmest weeks of the year are something to settle into rather than escape.

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

09/16/2026

We’re hosting a stop on this year’s Ladner Business Association LBA Art & W**e Stroll, and we’d love for you to join us.

On Thursday, September 24, Ladner Village fills with local art, w**e, and good company as you stroll from business to business. We’ll be one of the featured stops, and we’re giving TWO guests a PAIR of tickets each to spend the evening with us. 🎨🥂

How to enter: tag someone you’d bring along in the comments. Enter as often as you’d like, with each tag as its own separate comment. We’ll draw two names at random on Tuesday, September 22nd, and reach out to the winners by DM.

Good to know: the Stroll runs 4 to 8 pm and is a 19+ evening, so please make sure you’re of age and able to join us in Ladner on the 24th.

Tickets are on sale now and moving quickly. To secure your spot, grab yours through the link in our bio.

This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered by Instagram or Meta.

At our Office…
Sarah Gallop Design & Top Shelf Design present Artist @ danafetherstonhaugh and W**e Chaberton W**ery
Tsawwassen Orthodontics and Periodontics presents Artist Theresa Moleski
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