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34 | summer 2014 bcliving.ca home I t may sound like a story told backwards, but a local couple traded in their large house and yard in Vancouver's Dunbar neighbourhood for a Kitsilano apartment. ey pined for the city lifestyle they had once enjoyed while living and working in San Francisco and New York, and this luxury penthouse brought them and their eight-year-old daughter back to where the action was, centrally located on Cornwall Avenue, with stunning ocean views. Upon gutting the space, they enlisted interior designer Geele Soroka of Sublime Interior Design to bring a breezy West Coast feel into their home, while maintaining the sophisticated glamour that's synonymous with a west side penthouse. "My signature is for indoor and outdoor connections, and maximizing the view," says Soroka. For the interior, Soroka's main concern was drawing the eye out to the view and replicating the soft beach, ocean and sky esthetic. "I wanted all glass," she says of the living room, "because when you come into the space, you want that infinity edge into the ocean." Soroka insisted on expanding the small existing patio into a massive outdoor living space that could accommodate the same level of entertaining as the indoor living and dining rooms. Inside, she created an expansive master bedroom that transitions seamlessly into the open- concept bathroom. "It's more of that open lifestyle," she says. "When I'm designing these homes, I give them more cookie-cutter options, but it always finds its way back." e Outdoor Dining "e foliage that [the garden designer] Glenna selected helped play into the mountains and the greenery, so it's a great complement " – Geele Soroka, interior designer MIRROR IMAGE The couple's main vision for the patio was entertaining. "When you're dealing with an outdoor space, you just mimic what's inside," says Soroka. "You have a dining table; you have to put a dining table outside." The white, Lucite, bloom-back chairs from Livingspace Interiors – the same ones as the indoor dining space – bring an ele- ment of glamour to the rustic wood Restoration Hardware table. p32-37_Home_KitsPenthouse.indd 34 2014-05-15 1:34 PM