erek White second year of university when he “started vetting architects” for his future home. “That’s when I met Liani—I don’t know if we would have been friends if we didn’t share a sense of aesthetics,” Derek says wryly as Liani Douglas listens in. But friends they became, and some 14 years later, when Derek came across a dilapidated, 80-year-old cottage in a spectacular location, he immediately called Douglas & Company, the architectural firm Douglas had founded with her husband, Jan.
