Karin Bohn:Bohn to be Wild

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She’s ambitious, inspired and wildly　creative. And with a desire to help　other entrepreneurs succeed as she　has, interior designer Karin Bohn　continues to expand her creative　foothold — and footprint — in　Vancouver and beyond.

Bohn’s widely celebrated design　agency, House of Bohn, spans luxury residential, boutique　commercial and personal projects, and she also has a growing　media presence. Bohn is a woman who simply doesn’t stop　innovating — and she wouldn’t have it any other way. “The more I　achieve, the more I want to achieve,” she says. “If I can do it, you　can too, and that’s what my message is all about on YouTube.”

The active vlogger — she has 100,000 subscribers on YouTube — has built a following thanks to her down-to-earth take on entrepreneurial challenges, her drool-worthy design and travel posts, and personal chronicles of her own home renovation project. And she’s about to go bigger, with her soon-to-launch Network series, Restaurants on the Edge. The show has Bohn flying around the world with a chef and a restaurateur “to help restaurateurs revamp their menus, their operations and, of course, their design. I can’t wait for it to launch!”

Meanwhile, she’s also working on 12 to 18 design projects at any given moment, including “a handful of restaurants in Whistler’s Creekside Village, a mid-century-modern-inspired fitness studio in Olympic Village, a number of multi-family projects around Vancouver, and a penthouse in China.” Plus, she’s designing and building a new House of Bohn office in Chinatown to make space for her growing empire.

Always on top of design trends inspired by fashion, nature, pop culture and her own travels, Bohn’s current fascination is with curves. “I love that design is moving in a more ‘shapely’ direction with curved sofas, interesting tufting and rounded edges for things like tables and kitchen islands,” she says. “I think design is moving in a direction that feels very sculptural, and it’s a breath of fresh air from the angular, perfect symmetry we’ve been seeing for the past decade.”