Pacific Design Lab at IDS West

The Interior Design Show West (IDS West) shows never fail to impress! This year was no exception. Held September 24th – 27th,  this year’s show had representation from brands both large and small, artisans, interior designers, students, and retailers alike. Well-curated and thoughtfully laid out, walking through the show was like a fantastic visual journey as you’d…

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Welcome Home: Special Housewarming Gifts By PDL x GableCraft Homes

Buying a home is a huge life event. It’s scary, it’s emotional, but it’s also incredibly exciting to walk through that door for the first time and call that home “yours”. And what if, on that day that you first step inside, your first gift is there waiting for you, welcoming you inside the place where…

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Get To Know Us! Meet Dan Lacey

I recently connected with a super fab gal over Instagram (it’s amazing how social media can bring people together!), and we arranged to meet up for a coffee. I had spent some time looking at her account and of course knew what she looked like, so when I spotted her in the cafe I immediately…

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Pacific Design Lab Turns One!

I must have been feeling extra #tbt’ish today while looking through old pictures, and then I realized we just passed our first birthday. Wow – we did it! Happy Birthday Pacific Design Lab! Before we moved on to this next year I wanted to ensure we looked back at the last – to learn from,…

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Where To Buy Pacific Design Lab

This is where it all began. We got the idea for our little company simply by designing and creating our own handcrafted cutting boards for our friends and family a few Christmases ago. It’s so funny thinking about our little workshop that we set up in the parkade of our Kitsilano apartment building. Needless to…

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“Reclaimed wood breathes new life into home decor” – Article in The Vancouver Sun

This article originally appeared in The Vancouver Sun on December 4, 2014.  Story by Rebecca Keillor.    Vancouver’s Pacific Design Lab specializes in hand-crafted furniture and custom-fit interiors for businesses such as Earls restaurant chain and Kitsilano’s Nook Restaurant. The company’s commercial-grade cutting boards are found in restaurants such as Meat & Bread and Railtown…

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Celebrating Milestones And Amazing Vancouver Shops For Local Gifts

We’re super stoked about hitting another milestone for the company this month. Pacific Design Lab can now be found in local shops in the Vancouver area – woohoo! We love working with local businesses – whether it be for any of the restaurant projects we do, custom woodworking for designers or interior spaces, or creative…

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The Beginner’s Guide to Custom Furniture

We love bringing our clients’ dreams + dream spaces to life by building their custom pieces. It’s an incredibly fulfilling process to start with first understanding the inspiration behind the piece, bringing it to life in a functional design, and then seeing it transform the final space that is rests in. Going custom is not…

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Wood 101: The Best Types of Wood For Building Custom Furniture

Building your own custom piece is really fun. You get to imagine the style you want, the space it will go into, and all of the amazing stories to come. But what about the materials? Will your table be made out of wood? What kind of wood? There are over 100,000 different species of wood…

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Project Profile – the Nectar Juicery Pop-Up Display

We were so thrilled to hear that our good friends at Nectar Juicery were opening a pop-up at Holt Renfrew for the month of July! What an amazing opportunity – one that needed an epic display to really showcase how special the Nectar brand and product is. We worked with the lovely Laura Melling, interior designer…

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