A modest budget doesn’t always put a serene and stylish interior out of reach, as Brandon Lange’s design for a young professional couple in the Trinity Bellwoods neighbourhood shows. 

The house offered one major asset right at the start: it had already been nicely renovated by the previous owners, leaving Lange and his clients to focus on bringing in their own personal style. “It was full of light, with clean white walls and high ceilings,” he recalls. “The previous owners had put in these high clerestory windows in several rooms, so it had a lot of natural light.”