The Construction Source

THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA to receive it.” “It’s great for marketing and branding,” she adds, “but it’s also about being a part of something bigger. That’s a great feeling.” The company’s most recent award victory was for the renovation of their own Creative Touch Design Studio. Their goal with that project was to create a space that would adequately function as a space to work for their employees while also serving as a vehicle to display their work to clientele. “I think we pulled it off,” Paulette says. “It looks great, and it’s a great space to work in. We’re very proud of it.” According to Paulette, the centrepiece of that project was the island – “which is huge, but functional.” “I needed a functional space to put all our material selections,” she explains, “and I wanted to be able to tuck it all away, so we didn’t have to have everything laid out in the open.” The solution was a large island in the middle of the space, which stores all their material selections and drawers labelled specifically for the client/project that they can reference, since projects can run up to a year. Also, within is a hidden T.V., which lifts from the island upon voice activation – specifically, they say the word ‘show- time’ and the T.V. emerges for presentations with clients. That system was provided by Movable Spaces, a West Kelowna-based specialist in hidden storage solutions. Meanwhile, the island’s top is