We spend much of our time helping clients enjoy the beauty, tranquility and accessibilities of home. Especially in careers where wfh is allowed or encouraged, our spaces serve a variety of needs for us and our families.
Patience
We always joke that interior decorating emergencies don’t exist – save for the ones we can handle. Like you move in with a significant other and your collective stuff clashes.
People love lists and superlatives, dating way back to high school yearbooks. But the publications are missing the juice: The best designers in the world have the best clients in the world.
Fear is the power that fuels inertia. I read somewhere that the all-white room is a byproduct of fear.
Many of our clients struggle with the challenges of downsizing. But what about upsizing? Typically out of college, we land our first job, maybe we shack up in a trendy urban neighborhood, then get married, celebrate a first born. But the inevitable arrives, planning for that second (or third) child?
The driver’s seat upheld a particular status in our family — probably in most families I expect. The driver is in charge. The pilot navigates the dark, scary world where strangers live in big, dark houses and high beams are a weapon.
We’ve all said it, but this doesn’t work all the time, especially when a kaleidoscope of decisions must be made.
Often times we see flaws, oversights and potential improvements that no one else sees. Should we speak up and point them out?
A decorated home that consists of, say, 350 elements is actually 3,500 decisions. Or more. Probably more.
We hold on to decisions from the past. Usually, I imagine, because there’s a complicated series of (emotional) connections we have to the value of things, and more importantly, what our relationship is to money and how we choose to spend it. I’m in the business of physical transformation and change. And at the time […]