Nature infuses Lumina Brentwood
Mary Frances Hill
The Province
Lumina Brentwood
Project Address: 2425 Beta Ave., Burnaby
Project Scope: Almost 1,000 new homes in Brentwood, with the first tower, Waterfall, featuring one-, two-, and three-bedroom suites
Residence sizes and prices: 521 — 1,084 square feet; penthouse collection 956 — 2,146 square feet; starting in the $380,000s
Developer and builder: Thind Properties Ltd.
Sales centre: 2463 Beta Ave., Burnaby
Centre hours: Coming soon
Good design captures the essence of the personalities of the people who live in a space, so when Cheryl Broadhead approached the interior design work on the display homes at Lumina Brentwood — Thind Properties’ new community in Burnaby — she made sure every material, every finish and every furnishing told a story of character and warmth.
In one kitchen, varied subtle shades of white adorn the finishes. Broadhead, a principal of Bob’s Your Uncle (BYU) Design, and her team fashioned the entire suite like this: as a clean canvas, ready for a retro touch. Light brown leather chairs are placed at the island and brown leather wing chairs in the adjacent living room, giving the space a masculine, homey warmth.
“The display with the leather chairs was designed for a single man, so we were trying to evoke a masculine feel with the leather,” Broadhead says. “There is not a lot of colour in the unit, so we were trying to warm it up through finishes and textures.
“If we went with something sleek and dark it would have given the space a much colder feel, while something with a more textured and light colour would have a more feminine feel than what we were going for.”
While designers and developers usually tend to appeal to universal tastes, Broadhead and the BYU team recognize that touches personality interest visitors. A small collection of framed images arranged in a collage on one bedroom wall offers character and depth, as if it’s telling the story of a well-rounded life.
“Collages are a great way to add a lot of visual interest and really speak to the personality of the occupant,” she says. “They tell a story. They reference the old salon style of hanging art, which didn’t give more importance to one piece over another. A single painting can be stunning and evoke powerful emotions, but doesn’t always tell a well-rounded story.”
The Lumina Brentwood community will take an enviable position: a seven-minute walk from the Brentwood SkyTrain station and a future busy retail hub. It will also overlook an eventual 13.3-acre park. The nature theme inspired the architects in their design of Waterfall, the first building, propelling Broadhead and BYU to incorporate accents of wood, water and stone throughout the building.
“All of the units have a natural feature, but they are very different from one another. The studio has the wood wall covering throughout the entryway working into the kitchen which ties the entry millwork in and gives the space a larger feel.”
A mirrored cabinet opens to reveal a back with a wooden panel, an elegant, grown-up look that incorporates the standard finish for all the suites. “In this case, the wood helps the bathroom feel warm and inviting and really ties in with the rest of the unit.”
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