Last week I was sitting in my client’s living room, trying not to judge their brand-new sectional that was already sagging after six months, when she mentioned her headaches. “Started…
When my neighbour Sarah asked me to help her furnish her new apartment last month, I thought it'd be straightforward. She had a decent budget, cared about the environment, and…
You know what really gets under my skin? Walking into a daycare facility and seeing cheap particleboard furniture outgassing formaldehyde while three-year-olds are trying to learn their colours. I mean,…
I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes some restoration projects actually work while others just feel like expensive band-aids on old buildings. Part of it comes from living in…
You know what drives me absolutely insane? I was in Phoenix last summer for a sustainable design conference – yeah, the irony wasn’t lost on me – and I watched…
The morning light was hitting my living room wall in that perfect way again yesterday, casting those familiar leaf patterns I've been watching for months now. You know how sometimes…
So I’m dealing with this philodendron that’s basically taken over my kitchen windowsill – you know how plants sometimes decide they know better than you do about where they should…
Yesterday morning, I found myself staring at a pile of bamboo flooring samples scattered across my kitchen table, trying to figure out why three supposedly identical products had completely different…
Standing in my kitchen this morning, coffee in hand, I caught myself staring at a photo on my phone – one I'd snapped yesterday during a consultation at a corporate…
Standing in my client's kitchen last Tuesday morning, watching her three-year-old daughter instinctively gravitate toward the one corner where morning sunlight streamed through our newly installed skylights, I was reminded…