Last Tuesday, I found myself crawling around my friend Sarah’s nursery floor, examining the off-gassing smell coming from her brand-new crib. She’d spent months researching the “safest” baby furniture, reading…
When my sister announced she was pregnant with her second child, I found myself in an unexpected position. You know how it is when someone asks for advice in your…
My neighbour’s golden retriever, Max, spent most of his life sleeping on a synthetic foam bed that made my skin crawl just looking at it. The thing was covered in…
My daughter’s fascination with tiny furniture began when she discovered my architectural model-making supplies scattered across my home office desk. She was three then, carefully arranging miniature chairs and tables…
My neighbour Sarah knocked on my door last month holding a cracked wooden chair, practically in tears. Her toddler had just broken the second piece of furniture that week, and…
Standing in a Tucson preschool last month watching twenty kids attempt to use furniture that was clearly designed by someone who’d never spent five minutes with actual children, I couldn’t…
Three months ago, my neighbour Sarah called me in a panic. She’d just moved into her first apartment and needed to furnish it on a $1,200 budget. “I want to…
Walking through my client Sarah’s master bedroom last month, I couldn’t help but notice how her traditional oak furniture dominated the space. Heavy, dark pieces that seemed to absorb light…
Walking through a client’s master bedroom last Tuesday, I couldn’t help but cringe at the mismatched chaos. Beautiful reclaimed wood bed frame, gorgeous. Plastic nightstands that looked like they’d melt…
My cousin Sarah called me last Tuesday, panic in her voice. “I’m three months pregnant and just read that my crib could poison my baby.” She’d fallen down one of…