Happiest of Thursdays to you. (It's totally about to get happier.) It took one stumbled-upon pin of Kate Marker Interiors to get me to spend the subsequent too-long-to-really-admit-amount-of-time probing the lady's portfolio. (Also the pictures were taking a long time to load for me? But I was so devoted to seeing them as large as possible that I waited it out like the pathetic interiors obsessor that I am? I don't know why that last one ...

If I had a piece of silver for every time a client has asked me exasperatedly, "What am I supposed to do with all this silver?!" And then, before I managed a syllable, "I mean I have to keep it. It was my _______(insert dearly beloved, long-deceased relative)," I'd have enough silver to melt it into a Live Simply idol that we could all thereafter worship. Of course you can always say goodbye to it, ...

I've had quite a few clients recently in need of a convertible guest-hosting situation. This is either a very good sign, as it suggests that people are moving away from the notion that they should be reserving an entire room in their houses for the benefit of someone who may or may not visit, say, once or thrice a year, and moving more towards the thought that a person's home should serve that person, first ...

I've heard it said that the goal of life is to figure out one's purpose, and that the purpose of life is to give it away--something like that, anyway. I believe (and have found true) that once we're razor clear about our purpose, the people who need the particular gift each of us has naturally and easily appear. And yet; and yet. The great reconciliation we must all eventually make is that we can only ...

Happy Thursday, Your Brilliances. What's happening in your neck of the woods, hmm? Everyone and you got a pumpkin on their front porch? Grand; here too. Speaking of: let's treat ourselves to the work of CM Natural Designs, founded by head designer Corine Maggio (what?). Although the main star of the show is a beach cottage--not necessarily seasonally apropos--its cozy factor makes it, I believe, perennially in style. Like, you could easily surf all day and chill ...