Corina is one part interior designer, one part client advocate with a generous dash of sass. She brings almost two decades of design experience, over 30 years of working with people and a direct but compassionate communication style to Bungalow Interior Design.

A late bloomer perhaps but working in a creative field like interior design was inevitable for Corina. After four years of courses in Human Ecology and Commerce including fashion and textile design, marketing, psychology and even calculus (she got a B+ her second time around!), she decided to take a break from university. She spent the next several years in retail management and visual merchandising before moving on to production management and product design at a local handmade paper company. Impulsively she returned to university, this time entering the Faculty of Architecture. Corina graduated with a Bachelor of Environmental Design in 2004 with honours, first place in a student competition, and a passion for interior design.

After graduating Corina worked for a kitchen renovation company, bought her first house, renovated it and then impulsively (you may sense a pattern) sold it to finance a year of travelling around the world. Some of her favourite memories of the trip are design related, naturally. She visited the Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht, Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye and Sagrada Familia by Gaudi in Barcelona. Upon returning to Canada she designed a jewellery line that was sold locally and across Canada, provided freelance design services to various clients and companies and was the senior interior designer for a design build firm until 2019. These life and work experiences, along with her education, have provided a solid foundation of knowledge of people, place and design as well as the inner workings of the renovation industry.

Space planning and kitchen design are the areas where Corina excels in residential design. She enjoys working closely with clients to learn how they interact in their homes so she can provide a well-designed space that enhances their daily lives. Building a trusting relationship with clients is important to her design process and leads to comments like “It’s like you were in my head” from happy clients. Improving people’s lives fuels her to learn more and continually grow as a designer. In fact, her desire for learning is what led to connecting with Rachel after they both attended the same continuing education course.

Her loves include mid-century modern bungalows, weekends at the lake, travelling anywhere with her partner Jay, and snuggling her cats, Midge and Stevie.