From small renovations to new custom homes the residential and commercial design projects of Ladner-based Sarah Gallop Design Inc. span a wide range of styles and locations throughout Canada, USA and Asia. With its understanding of the construction and design industry SGDI ensures clients have all the knowledge to start a project without regret and finish with pride. While the firm has been featured in multiple industry publications and recognized with many awards since Sarah Gallop founded it in 2009, Sarah's passion lies in educating people on what interior designers actually do.
Sarah Gallop, founder and Director of Design at SGDI, designed her first house at the age of twelve. Since then she completed the Marketing and Business Management program at Kwantlen University College. She worked in Art Direction at Vancouver Film School. She then turned to Interior Design studies at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. While she her current career in Commercial Design she gravitated to designing homes. Over the years, Sarah has been a regular contributing writer for Black Press and Glacier Media and a featured columnist for Westcoast Homes + Design magazine. She has presented on the Main Stage at the BC Home + Garden Show and the Vancouver Fall Home Show numerous times and has also appeared on Global TV, CTV, and CBC Radio. She served eight years as a commissioner with the Delta Heritage Advisory Commission and now serves on the Delta Advisory Design Panel and on the Delta Hospital and Community Health Foundation board.
Rob Gallop, husband and SGDI's Director of Operations & Sales, holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting
from Kwantlen University and received his Chartered Accountant (CA) designation in 2008. Three years later he left public practice in accounting to focus his skills on business growth and accounting in a different setting. In public practice Rob said he worked with many clients who generally needed accounting services provided for compliance reasons. He was an accountant doing the job that any accountant should do. Now, at SGDI, he said he loved being a part of a business which people choose to work with, not out of necessity, but out of excitement and enthusiasm for a great outcome.
President Brian Coe and Lynn Cameron thank Rob and Sarah Gallop with a donation in their names to the global campaign to rid the world of polio |