Reimagined condo takes a prime position in Fairmont Pacific Rim tower

Designers rarely get carte blanche. Most projects come with mood boards, must-haves and lengthy wish lists. But Phyllis Lui’s brief on a recent Vancouver condo renovation was refreshingly simple: whatever you like. Right down to the silverware in the kitchen drawers.

The home was a 2,321-square-foot suite in the city’s glassy Fairmont Pacific Rim tower, and her client wanted a refresh — with very few strings attached.

“He might be my dream client. He was so easygoing through the whole process,” says Lui, principal of Vancouver’s Kalu Interiors. “When we gave him options like: do you want to go this direction or that direction, he would ask me back: which one do you like?”

The homeowner, a single man with adult children and gran

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