Seven years. That’s how long we’ve been living in our dream home. I designed every inch of it (with input from my significant other, of course) and we’re still madly and deeply in love with our home – from every angle and down to the smallest details. At 930 square feet, it’s no palace but…
A modern, minimal, all-white look is the stuff of many dream homes. While it can look peaceful in a magazine, spending time in these spaces usually feels unsettling and anything but peaceful. In due course, colour, contrast and pattern begin to find their way into these spaces as home owners subconsciously begin to surround themselves…
curated colour and storied furnishings for a pared back lifestyle The process of building a home rolls along at a more laid back pace in rural Nova Scotia than it does in the urban centers of Ontario. And our home owner was more than ready to slow down to the out of the way coastal…
making room in small spaces Dawn and Aaron’s charming and well-located Halifax home was the poster-child for under-utilized space. Storage for outerwear was limited to a tiny front closet with no space to greet guests. The kitchen was narrow and arranged in a way that made food prep cramped and entertaining awkward. Small appliance and…
Earlier this year, I was honoured to be invited to share one of my more whimsical projects with the readers of Saltscapes magazine. It was great fun to be interviewed by Saltscapes’ Editor in Chief, Crystal Murray. I was nervous going in, hoping I would remember key points I wanted to share and mostly hoping…
A couple of weeks ago, Designer Robin Lush from St. John’s and I had the great pleasure of sitting down with freelance writer, Juanita Rossiter, to share our advice on trends in home design. The feature was published in the Cape Breton Post and the PEI Journal Pioneer. Have a read here for insightful and…
It seems to me the biggest challenge we face when downsizing from home ownership to apartment living is not deciding what to keep for the new place. It’s working out how to make an apartment feel like a home. Susan and Danny wanted their one main room in their apartment to be sophisticated enough to…
Writer, Talia Meade, reached out to me to talk about fall interior design trends recently. I picked up my Fall 2021 issue of East Coast Living today and am tickled pink to see photos from my Hunt’s Point and Lewis Lake projects between the covers. Along with my trending for fall tips, the article shows…
Leaving city life behind to live fulltime at the cottage, our clients knew it was time to get serious about making the indoors more than just basic functional. They wanted friendly comfort to equal the inviting and whimsical spaces they’d created outdoors. As to be expected, the focus had been the great outdoors – lake-side.…
