at any point during the past 12 years would reveal an oasis of buttery-soft A.L.C. sweaters, boxy Anine Bing leather jackets and drapey Joseph dresses. It probably wouldn’t leave you assuming that owner Rebecca Rawlinson likes to play around in the dirt.
But the west side’s favourite stylist contains multitudes. “It turns out I’m a shop girl but I’m also a gardener,” laughs Rawlinson. It’s a passion she discovered during the early days of pandemic lockdown, and in 2020, she and husband Rick Leo left their East Van duplex for the quiet streets of North Vancouver to find some room to grow. They fell in love with their little blue house before they even walked in the front door. “The backyard sold us,” says Rawlinson.
And while she’s found plenty of happiness tending to roses, dahlias and ranunculus over the past few years, there’s just as much to love inside the craftsman-style home. Their second-floor library, for one, has become another happy place for the creative couple. Leo is a woodworker and used his talents to install a wall of shelving that he painted a custom shade of robin’s-egg blue.
The TV lives downstairs these days. The couple uses the library for more artistic pursuits, spending evenings reading, writing, painting and drawing. Shelves display Rawlinson’s extensive coffee-table book collection and treasures sourced from Parisian flea markets and friends’ stores, while the drawers hide art supplies. And if Rawlinson is ever feeling too far from that gorgeous garden, she can head to the window seat in her walk-in closet for a glimpse down at the blossoms.
In Bloom “I’m a big supporter of local florists,” says Rawlinson, who has fresh florals in her store and home daily. Some faves include Celsia, Quince and Florista.“I have a coffee-table book obsession. I can’t leave a bookstore without buying one,” says Rawl-inson. “When I need inspiration, I pull one out and it’s instant.”The Baccarat vase here was a gift from a client in Rawlinson’s early days as a stylist at Holt Renfrew.
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