How an Outdated Montreal Row House Became a Homey Office Space

Did Sarah Di Domenico manifest this 100-year-old home when she made a serviette sketch of her dream workplace in 2020? Whether or not the ability of magical considering is actual or not, right here she is: working her branding studio, Wedge, alongside life and work companion Justin Lortie out of a heat and homey workspace that has the very same arched door and facade that she had drafted throughout a blue-sky brainstorming session.

Earlier than, Wedge was in a conventional studio area, explains Sarah, a loft with concrete flooring and white partitions. “We simply felt like we would have liked one thing new and completely different. It simply wasn’t the vitality anymore,” she recollects. The couple have been itching for a brand new area in Montreal, the place the corporate relies, that will foster but extra connection and neighborhood for his or her staff of 12—one other instance of a rising pattern of designers in search of out homey vibes for his or her post-pandemic workspaces.