Cedar Street, Halifax Designing every space to do double, and sometimes triple, duty made the most of every inch for active toddler, new baby, spaniel-Daisy and busy work-from-home parents. We completely re-vamped the main floor, starting with the foyer where we replaced a cramped corner closet, with two custom floor-to-ceiling outerwear and family gear storage…
Humans are such adaptable creatures. It’s our super-power. However, this adaptability often causes us to adapt our ways of doing and being in our homes, to the short-comings of our homes. We change ourselves rather than shape our homes to work for us. This was the case for Janice and Jeff. We met to talk…
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…
Day to day living has changed a whole lot since the Haverstocks’ house welcomed it’s first family way back in 1901. Technology, furniture and our ideas of what an evening an home looks like are far different than they were 120 years ago. A home of that vintage has seen a lot of families come…
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…
We’re craving the tranquility of the natural world now more than ever before. Here’s how to work nature into your interior design scheme for a soothing space, wherever you are. The past few years have seen us turn to and appreciate nature more than ever before. When the pandemic turned our worlds upside down, nature…