Good design matters and it requires patience. Patience to “create, fashion, execute, and construct according to a plan.” (~Webster’s) Behind every beautifully designed space lies a Brain Storm of creativity, deep-probing inquiry, and mettle.
Expensive, exotic, or rare materials do not equal Good Design. Don’t cheap out on the brain power required for Good Design, because no [...]
Category Archives: Featured Posts
Design Thought for the Day
March 8, 2011 – 9:55 am
Master Bathroom Renovation
February 1, 2011 – 10:41 am
It’s a Winner!
Update (posted February 9, 2011):
At the end of the voting period on February 7th, my project earned one of the top three winning spots in the America’s Ugliest Bathrooms: Solved contest, sponsored by www.daily5remodel.com and American Standard. My sincerest thanks to ALL of you for rallying behind me in my effort to win. I [...]
New Year, New Mantras
January 4, 2011 – 1:09 pm
These are my favorite Christmas gifts this year. Double great advice for the New Year, wouldn’t you say? Calm in the face of a storm, and grace under pressure, with my tongue firmly in-cheek. Just good British design, old and new (and I love all things British).
Here’s to 2011! Great beginnings and lots of hot [...]
Tree vs. Treadmill
December 22, 2010 – 7:57 am
We decided to set up our Christmas tree a couple days before Thanksgiving this year, and our usual conversations about where to put it started. The few viable spots for a Christmas tree in our house have been reduced over the years with the location of my office in the Living Room, and since having [...]
Wordsmithery and My Love of Metaphor
November 17, 2010 – 5:08 pm
The time dilation in effect for most of this year is now over. Time has headed over a cliff and is now falling toward December faster than I can hang on to my safety ropes.
Time dilation allowed me to do all sorts of things this year: gardening, complain about the heat, start a compost bin, [...]
Passing the Test
October 19, 2010 – 6:30 am
This week’s Blog Off topic is “Is there a reason to be optimistic?” My take on this is highly personal, as usual. Be sure to visit the other blog participant’s posts. You can find a list of them here: www.letsblogoff.com
Something wonderful happened to me recently. After a long, downtrodden, worrisome year full of angst, [...]
Designers Hate Shopping
October 1, 2010 – 2:14 pm
Shocking, isn’t it? Yes, I know, it is a generalization. There are plenty of designers out there that love shopping, especially with their Jackie O sunglasses, cream linen suits, and their little dogs in tow. I’m just not one of them. Strange as it may seem, since sourcing out product is an integral part of [...]
The Grand Daydream
September 7, 2010 – 6:00 am
I dream of living in a house on a hill. A barn, actually. A repurposed space that was once one thing and is now another. A place with lovely bones. A large, loft-like space with high ceilings, rafters, clerestory windows, big sliding doors with heavy, industrial, exposed hardware, and wood floors.
Barn Conversion by Shed
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Don’t be Afraid of Color
August 26, 2010 – 6:59 am
In this age of nesting, home as sanctuary, aging in place, and all the other –isms of “staying-putted-ness” people are looking for ways to repurpose their belongings, update their homes without spending gobs of money, and achieve a change of scenery without leaving the scene. One of the best ways to do this is with [...]
Are College Grads Ready for the Working World?
August 24, 2010 – 6:00 am
Blog off!
What’s that, you say? Is that some new curse de jour for cranky blog readers and writers to hurl at passersby by? No friends, it’s a term coined by and an activity engaged in by some of my Twitter friends. Since entering the strange universe that is Twitter, I have met a slew [...]
