Good communication is about clarity of expression. That’s what we were all taught from the early days, and that’s the first mistake. Asserting that the control of communication is in the hands of the sender while ignoring that interpretation at the receiver’s end is as crucial, is the exact recipe for the Tower of Babel….
Category: DIY LIKE A PRO
Home Pods: how to make one and what to do with it
Aside from Cleaning Day or, more specifically, the day after when everything is perfect and a pleasure to look at, we don’t really spend time looking at our homes as if we are a visitor in a museum or flipping through a design magazine. We just go about the day and do what we normally…
Off-duty hero finds perfect coffee table at auction uptown
One of the most fantasized about designer tasks is their shopping on someone else’s dime. Can there be anything more wonderful than getting the ‘high’ of shopping beautiful things all the time and get paid for it on top of that? But shopping, i.e., professional sourcing, is just so much more than that. Sometimes…
MAKEUP PART 2 // The vanity zone of your dreams: What you need and where to get it
Since all of you have online-shopping time on your hand, I will show you here what to order and from where to get all you need for the perfect vanity. LIGHT Good light is probably the most important. There are a lot of great options out there and this is where the bathroom light above…
MAKEUP PART 1 // Did you know that most women do not have a perfect makeup table?
For most women, make-shift is the word of the day when it comes to vanity tables and that’s just not ok. Sure, you don’t need much but the thing about applying makeup is that if you actually have a great setup for it, it’s just so much more pleasant to do it and you’re more…
Shopping season, getting the essentials and the ones you don’t need
When I shop for clients I never feel distracted. It is completely different when the buying becomes a part of a project. Professional buying applies a filter to browsing that confidently edits, reshuffles and combines the finds with all the other elements of the design, such as room wall colours, flooring finish lights and so forth, that I do not have with me when shopping.
The kids variable in renovations
I’ve had food on the ceiling and radiators pulled out from the wall – all because of toddlers… I had the kid-proof water from the cooler draining the floor when the kid outsmarted the machine. There is nothing that resists them. Kids, the force of curiosity and imagination. They are the blast that tests every…