When you’re an aspiring fashion designer, it stands to reason that you would want your home to reflect your own creative sensibility. So the owner of this Toronto residence called on Barbini interior designer Vanja Stepanek to create the avant-garde home of her dreams. She had seen and loved one of Barbini’s recent projects, Vanja says.

“It was a fun and different project to work with someone who is inspired by history and has an appreciation for architecture and design. A lot of people haven’t worked with a designer before and don’t know what it entails. They look to the designer but are afraid to step away from the norm, preferring to use design elements they have seen in friends’ homes or in magazines.

“But being a designer herself, the owner understands the principles of visual organization and the use of different design elements; textures, colours etc. and how they form and convey a visual messages,” Vanja says. “She was not afraid of colour, patterns, textures or about combining different design styles and periods in subtle ways.” And she was open to new ideas, for example using wallpaper on the dining room ceiling to create a unique focal point that looked remarkable against the subtle glow from the elegant antique chandelier.

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