It’s a sunny late-summer evening in eastern British Columbia, and Cori Creed and her husband, Craig Cameron, are getting ready to host a dinner at their house in the Okanagan Valley. Cori, an artist, is in the kitchen preparing a galette topped with fresh vegetables, while Craig, an attorney and West Vancouver city councillor, is in the garage fashioning a makeshift serving table from wood scraps and a neighbor’s discarded slab of granite.
All the while, children and friends, including the home’s architect, Kevin Vallely, filter in and out of the house, into its central courtyard, and onto the terraced yard below, where the table will be placed beside a handmade firepit and guests will be treated to a postcard view of Skaha Lake at sunset.
Cori, Craig, and their…
