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Island women’s chic beach house design featured in national magazine

Ryan Quigley

Journal Pioneer

SUMMERSIDE- It was only a year ago in August Susan Snow had finished her job of designing the interior of a summer home for Shane and Susan Stark, from Calgary.

The home, which overlooks the Northumberland Strait, was chosen by the magazine after Snow submitted a picture of it.

A year later, Snow was 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 now in Charlottetown) home and cottage was featured and she wrote a column for P.E.I. shopping in their “Shops etc.”, but this was the first time a house she worked on was featured.

The home was the first article featured in the “Cottage Chic” section and was given the biggest page spread.

Snow said the home was a team effort by both her and the Stark’s.

“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 of the home as a very classic and simply done, calling it “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 she thought the magazine did a great job in showing the house and it’s 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 ads to the credibility,” she said. “If someone would have told me ten-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.

“There was one gal and her husband and the husband came over the cashier as (his wife) was shopping and said, ‘My wife saw the magazine, and since we were coming, she wanted to come in and see your shop.”