About
A studio built on listening, drawing, and getting the details right.
CRB Design Co. is a residential design and drafting studio based in Vernon, British Columbia - built on a decade spent working across all three sides of how a home actually gets made: building it, planning it, and designing it.
That breadth matters. Field time taught what a framer actually wants to see on a sheet. Planning work taught how to read a zoning bylaw, anticipate a variance, and keep a permit moving. Design work turned both into something rarer in this industry - drawings that are buildable, defensible, and quietly beautiful.
Choosing a designer is, more than anything, a question of trust. You're handing over the largest investment most people make, and asking someone to translate the way you live into something a crew can frame from. The best designer for the job has stood on all sides of that line - and brings the confidence, calm, and judgment to bring it home.
Three disciplines, one practice
A decade spent learning the house from every angle.
Most designers know one side of this work. The strongest drawings come from someone who's lived on all three - and brings them to one table.
On the tools
Building
Field time on residential sites - framing, finishing, and watching how plans actually translate into wood, steel and time. Drawings here are made for the people holding the saw.
Through the system
Planning
Time inside municipal planning processes - zoning, variances, OCP, permit review. The path from site to approval is mapped before the first sketch ever leaves the studio.
At the board
Designing
Residential design and drafting refined across hundreds of homes - concept through construction documents - with a quiet, contextual sensibility tuned to the Okanagan.
Why it matters
Choose the designer, then the design.
A house is the longest brief you'll ever write. The plans you sign off on will be lived in, renovated, refinanced, and remembered. The single biggest decision isn't the style or the square footage - it's the person at the other end of the pencil.
CRB Design Co. exists to make that decision easy. One designer. One direct line. A decade across building, planning and design behind every line on the page. Calls returned the same day. Revisions back within the week. And, when your builder has a question on site, they call the person who drew it.
10+
Years across the trade
1
Designer, start to finish
BC
Code-compliant permit sets