Anicka Quin

1 week ago | westernliving.ca | Anicka Quin

Photos by Eymeric WidlingDesigner Katie Rioux had everything timed perfectly. The lead designer at DWK Interiors knew when the homeowners’ flight would land in Calgary from Hong Kong, and raced over to make sure everything in their new home would look perfect on their arrival. “I [had] the ambient light figured out for the time of day,” Rioux says. The couple hadn’t seen a single photo throughout the six-month design process, and she wanted the big reveal to be big for them.

1 week ago | westernliving.ca | Anicka Quin

This year, 2025, can we remember a different time? A time when we knew our neighbours. A time when we were present with people, heard them, and felt what they felt – to really get to know them? Can we offer a smile to someone we don’t know and just say “hello”? We have a wonderful opportunity to give to others and learn how wonderful they all are. You may remember the famous movie, The King and I.

2 weeks ago | westernliving.ca | Anicka Quin

The first time I visited Salone del Mobile in Milan back in 2022, I met up with designers, PR folks and design-business owners who were regular attendees and game to share their collective wisdom on how to do the world’s biggest furniture fair right. And even with that inside help, I’m not sure I was fully prepared for the mind-blowing immensity of the show itself and the impact it has on Milan. This year, over 300,000 people from 37 countries descended on the fairgrounds and all over the city.

2 weeks ago | westernliving.ca | Anicka Quin

In case you missed it: we’ve just announced the finalists for this year’s Western Living Designers of the Year awards. It’s an incredibly talented group of designers who are creating some of the strongest design work in the country—and the world—and we can’t wait to celebrate them all at our Western Living Designers of the Year party on September 11, 2025.

1 month ago | cottagelife.com | Anicka Quin

When your cabin is deep in the forest, in one of the rainiest communities in the country—the surf town of Ucluelet, B.C., sits on the Pacific side of Vancouver Island in a temperate rainforest—your outdoor spaces aren’t the sunbathing destinations you might have in a more open landscape, seen further east. “The truth is, there’s so much precipitation on the west coast of the island,” says owner and photographer Kamil Bialous. “And we’re not worried at all about solar heat gain.