SUMMERSIDE – It was only a year ago that Susan Snow finished designing the interior of a summer home for Shane and Susan Stark from Calgary, Alta.
Now it’s featured on the cover of the August issue of “Style at Home” magazine, currently on newsstands.
The home, which overlooks the Northumberland Strait, was chosen by the magazine after Snow submitted a picture of it. A year later, she was pleasantly surprised to see her design on the front cover promoting an eight-page spread and article about the home.
“It really is a designer’s dream,” she said. “I knew it was probably going to be about a year before it was in the magazine, but I didn’t have any idea it would be the cover.”
Snow had been featured in the magazine twice previously. Her store Moving Designz (which was located in Summerside but is now in Charlottetown) was featured and she wrote a column for P.E.I. shopping in their “Shops etc.”, but this was the first time her interior design on a home was featured.
The home was the first article featured in the “Cottage Chic” section of the August issue and was given the biggest page spread.
Snow said the home was a team effort by both her and the Starks.
“They had in mind how they wanted their house finished off; they just needed me to complete the task for them.”
Susan described the house’s interior as very classic and simply done, describing the design as “beach house chic”.
“It is a dream house and they will be retiring there, so it’s very large, but all the spaces have a purpose.”
She said the magazine did a great job in showing the house and its design.
“They represented my work extremely, extremely well. Even when they did the photography.”
Snow, who has been doing interior design professionally for six years, said it felt wonderful to get the recognition from the magazine.
“It’s validating and, of course, you know, it adds to the credibility,” she said. “If someone would have told me 10 years ago that your work is going to be featured in a national magazine, I would have laughed.”
She said it is good for business to have her work featured on the nationally distributed monthly magazine.
Citing a comment from one of her store’s customers recently, she noted that he told the cashier, “My wife saw the magazine, and since we were coming (to P.E.I.), she wanted to come in and see your shop.”
