Please permit me, if you would, to present you with a few shots from a recent client project. My client's daughter's rooms needed a bit of de-cluttering and straightening, as children's rooms will. While they're young enough that their mom still has the right to executive decision, we were conscious that we needed to streamline without trampling on the girl's individuality, expressed by way of shelf knick knacks, picture frames, prized possessions. [Side note: small people's ...

I was recently helping one of my clients brainstorm for her upcoming kitchen remodel. One of the features that we both agreed should remain was her glass cabinet fronts-- they provide a nice decorative touch in an otherwise neutral room by way of colorful dinnerware and cookbooks. This got me to thinking about serving instruments doubling as decorative displays, which got me to thinking about the storage method where this is most concept is most notably prevalent- open shelving, ...

I was recollecting about a particularly challenging period of my life with my friend when I commented, as we always do, “I don't know how I did it. I don't know how I got through that.” I was immediately struck by my own utterance of that phrase. It seems we are always declaring our assumed inability to endure struggle. When we speak of hypothetical or future challenges we say, “I can't imagine getting through that.” ...

It's Friday, and I for one am happy to see it. Although, I must say, one of the coolest things about my life is that I love what I do everyday, really I do. The weekends are blissful, but I can't claim to live for them, per say. All days are good ones to be alive and rockin' it the way you best know how in my book. Enough with that woo woo. Moving right ...

{Continued from yesterday} It's really quite unlike me to continue using, let alone keep around, something that's not very functional or attractive, but in all honestly, I didn't really know what else to do with my Dirt Devil, short of starting from scratch and purchasing a new vacuum. And can I just say, spending your hard-earned dollars on a vacuum cleaner just doesn't light a person up, not even me. I had almost begun to ...