Let's just acknowledge the obvious, which is that combining sleepland with storage is not sexy. In fact, it's more like a last resort, an option that should be utilized only when spatial constraints are a very real thing. If you have a reasonable amount of living space at your disposal, and you're still finding yourself stowing things under your bed, chances are that you, my friend, need to go back to the editing-board. But for ...

Life goes like this: Either you lead or you are lead. Either you direct or you are directed. Either you choose or the choices are made for you. It is always this way. Life slows for no man and it pauses for no woman. Rather, it is intent on ensuring that all of us--the whole system--is in constant movement. If we do not work to actively shape our realities, the universe absolutely sees to it ...

Today I've got an extra special Spotlight space for you--one of my very own client's, designed by Seattle's current design posterboy, Brian Paquette. When my client and I started working together, she was living in another house altogether (this is not uncommon), and when a house came up for rent in the area of town where her entire social sphere (including daughters, part time) resided, she jumped at the chance. When she got in, the house ...

I've spent the better part of my life in writing workshops, from which I am thoroughly certain of the following fact: everything is in how you phrase it. It might very well have been that someone's poem was the biggest pile of actual trash and horseradish sauce you'd ever read, but if you lead with, "I think this is actual trash and likely the dummest thing I've read this side of the Millennium, seriously why ...

The credit for today's post goes entirely to my client, who independently elected to replace the large floor basket filled with stuffed animals in her soon-to-be-son's nursery with a large lidded floor basket. So the other day I peeked my head in there, noticed that lid and was all, "Heyyyyy, spiffy!" Thumbs up, thumbs up. And then probably I did my really excited winky face I do when clients begin to get the bug. There ...