Category - Home & Garden

When John and I finished a design session with Emily and Yiannis recently, we all ended up in the kitchen.  They had just moved into their first apartment together in Brooklyn and sought...

What’s on the wall opposite your bed?  What you see there is important… it may be the last thing you see before falling asleep and the first thing you see when you wake.  It may set...

WARNING!! This blog posting contains graphic images of extreme organization that may be disturbing to some people. In the excitement leading up to the Dwell photo shoot of our kitchen, we...

There are a few more flourishes that John and I put into Louise’s kitchen that we’d like to share with you. When we presented our design ideas to Louise, we proposed stenciling a...

Unbeknownst to me and Dan, Louise had been envisioning orange in her kitchen for quite a while. After we had presented our design ideas, she produced several colour swatches, some of which...

John and I recently completed a fun and challenging design project. When our client Louise first contacted us for a design consultation, her kitchen was failing her. She described her...

We finally finished our dining room. Freshly painted, it looks as good as we imagined. Before repainting, it still left a lot to our imagination. The room did seem much more spacious with...

Remember the wall with the kitsch wallpaper that was uncovered when our old kitchen was demolished? (see May 4, 2012 posting Hidden Kitsch) Well, we just got around to painting that...

I don’t remember how it came about, but Dan and I recently started watching the PBS series The Power of Myth; we borrowed it through our town library. During the series of interviews...

We were very excited the day the stone stairway leading to the top of our little hill was finished. We couldn’t wait for the workmen to leave, so we could take an inaugural climb by...