Cynthia Soda is a Registered Interior Designer, founder and Principal Designer of Soda Pop Design Inc., bringing more than a decade of residential design experience—and a lifetime around construction—to the homes she designs.

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A graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Interior Design (formerly Ryerson), Cynthia founded Soda Pop Design in 2012 after gaining experience with leading design firms and earning her professional credentials through ARIDO, IDC and NCIDQ.

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But her relationship with homes started much earlier.

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Cynthia grew up around construction and renovation, eventually co-founding a residential construction company with her father and spending years working alongside the people responsible for actually building what designers put on paper. That experience continues to shape the way she designs today: creatively, certainly—but always with an understanding of space, detail, constructability and what happens after a drawing leaves the studio.

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She's perhaps best known, however, for something that's harder to put on a résumé.

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Cynthia has an uncanny ability to understand people.

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She listens closely, picks up on what clients aren't always able to articulate and sees possibilities in their homes they often haven't considered themselves. It's why her projects don't share a signature aesthetic. Her instinct is not to design a home that looks like hers—it's to uncover what will make it feel genuinely personal to you.

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Sometimes that means challenging an assumption. Sometimes it means gently talking you out of something. And sometimes it means showing you an idea you never would have asked for because you didn't know it was possible.

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That combination of intuition, spatial thinking, creativity and construction knowledge has become the foundation of Soda Pop Design—and the reason clients trust Cynthia to see the forest, the trees and quite often, what could be growing there next.​