Vaulted living room with timber rafters, a paper lantern and afternoon light across the floor
Primary suite seen through open walnut pocket doors
Terraced residences with planted balconies at golden hour
Great room at dusk with timber-slatted walls and floor-to-ceiling glazing

Homes, composed in light.

Residential Design & Architectural Visualization · Calgary

A small studio for the quiet business of designing homes, and the images that bring them to life.

Bonavale works in two disciplines. We design private residences for clients in Calgary and the Canadian Rockies. And we create architectural visualization for developers, architects and builders across North America. Both start in the same place: with light, material, and the way a day moves through a room.

About the studio
White cantilevered hillside residence above terraced stone walls
For private clients

Residential Design

Custom homes, mountain retreats and significant renovations, designed around the way you live. You see every room, rendered photographically, before construction begins.

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Two residential towers seen across a tree-lined park
For developers, architects & builders

Architectural Visualization

Photographic stills and film that sell projects before ground is broken, for presale launches, approvals and design review.

Explore visualization
A house should feel inevitable, as if the land had simply been waiting for it. Bonavale
How we work

Discreet, personal, and exacting.

I

Discretion by default

We sign NDAs before we see a site, and we never publish or mention a project without your written consent. Many of our clients prefer not to be named at all.

II

One point of contact

You work directly with the principal from the first conversation to the final walkthrough. We take on a limited number of commissions each year so every project gets that attention.

III

See it before you build it

Our visualization studio is in-house. You don't have to read drawings: you see every room in photographic detail, at every stage, before a single decision is final.

“[Client testimonial goes here: one or two sentences about the experience of working with Bonavale, ideally about trust, clarity and the result.]”
Private client · Aspen Woods, Calgary
Complimentary guide

Building a private residence in the Rockies

A calm, practical guide for anyone planning a custom home in Calgary, Canmore or the Bow Valley. It covers realistic timelines, choosing a site, how the design process works, and the questions to ask before you commit.

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We'll send the guide once, and nothing else unless you ask.

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We'll send it to you personally, usually the same day. If you'd like to talk through a project in the meantime, begin a conversation.

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Tell us about the place you have in mind.

Whether it's a home on a quiet street in Elbow Park, a retreat above Canmore, or a 300-unit launch in Vancouver, the first conversation is unhurried and without obligation. We reply personally within one business day.

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