So, what is the administrative part? documenting what you do figuring out which is the latest decision in relationship to a particular item do you know the impact of a framing decision later on in the process? budgeting scheduling tracking tax deductions, if any record-keeping for maintenance or, for instance, getting that paint for touch-ups…
Author: Adriana Mot
My 2 Cents on Design is a lifestyle magazine focused on promoting the positive impact of design and creativity on living an impeccable life.
Founder and editor-in-chief Adriana Mot is the owner and lead designer at Land of Dochia, a wellbeing through interior design company in Toronto, Canada
Culture, what else have we learned from the egyptians
Table centrepieces made of garlands or wreaths are one custom that has endured the test of time yet not that of forgotten beginnings. Dating back to the Egyptians, wreaths were placed on mummies as they entered the afterlife in a nationwide custom that celebrated this important rite of passage. A few centuries after, rose-petal garlands…
2023 Retrospective, Three small random excerpts with big impact
We often take for granted the little fragments of wisdom that pass us by here and there. This is an homage to thoughts and learnings we gather on our path. We can then choose to use or dismiss, but either way, we all have bits that touch us and make us different from one day…
Face it, we all have one disorder or another
So why are we not using them more to our advantage, and how can we change that? Let’s find a creative way of looking at the struggles we have by readjusting ourselves to normal parameters – as if that is all there is to it! There are many historical examples of serious disorders that proved…
Beyond skin wellbeing, health, and the wheel of life
How did Wellbeing and Wellness come about? Without proper understanding of their beginnings and awareness of their evolutionary path, they will only last as much as a frog’s breath between its hibernation cycles. Here is a short but relevant timeline of what wellbeing was, is and will be, forever. Health was simply a part of…
Input-process-output theory of metamorphosis – how creativity transforms you into something new, part 2
What we absorb through activities of the everyday is, in great measure, conducive to what we produce as human beings. Be that work, or conversations, or expressions of various emotions, or artistic endeavours. All these “things” represent our contribution to the world around us, and their perceived quality has a tremendous impact on our well-being….
Land of Dochia Magazine Issue #5 Showcase
The key concept I chose to apply here is the sympathetic design. Bedrooms are the most private rooms of our homes. They are our most intimate space or rest, recharge, joy and pleasure. They are the rooms where we carefully put ourselves together for the world to see and get to know us. Here, for…
Why leading a design firm should not be all that different than leading a factory
How many factory owners go and work the floor covering all the tasks? Yet most clients expect the leader of a design or architecture firm to be involved in absolutely all the work. In a way, this is quite obvious why it is so: unlike in a factory, they do not hire you for the…
Welcome to the mental health age, we’re all in this together, Part 1
Designed based on roman principles, it contributed to the emerging dialogue on passive house models and got recognized as such. Four residential units are placed around a central courtyard that acted as a well of light and rainwater collection. A small reservoir at the bottom recirculated the collected water to washrooms and kitchens, each equipped…
Input-process-output theory of metamorphosis – how creativity transforms you into something new, part 1
Sometimes I feel unidentifiable. Everything I want to say has already been said. What I imagine and want to design has already been designed. What I think has been thought before. They all come with a small pang of sadness and disillusion. Luckily – I think because of my training in a creative field –…
Vibe – FOCUS February 2023
The ease with which we move within our imagination is quickly dismissed when a good reality is cast upon us. Sometimes, we become content and relaxed at the expense of not seeing the next step that can take us even further. Vibing well is an awesome ride to catch upward, not something to bathe in…
The Big Easy, part 2 – When does it get easy? Does it ever?
The one question that we all ask – mostly of ourselves. Having it easy seems to always be of the past or some distant future. A distant future where we assume that after we perform many tribes and tribulations and do them properly, things will eventually pay off, and the easy time will come. But…