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Animal lover, founder of the Intangible Land, and endless traveler. She's also a designer.
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The 9 Most Common Complaints About Residential General Contractors
Hiring a general contractor is one of the largest discretionary purchases most homeowners will ever make, and it is also one of the most fraught. Year after year, home improvement and construction ...
The $40 Find That Anchors the Whole Room
Every room has a gravitational center. It's a piece that everything else orbits. In most rooms, people assume it's the sofa, or the rug, or the statement light fixture. Sometimes it is. But other t...
THE THREE KINDS OF OBJECTS IN EVERY ROOM
When we begin working on a room, we read the existing space before we recommend a single new thing. We're looking for three categories of objects. 1. Objects That Are Speaking Clearly These are t...
Objects are the material form of how we understand ourselves. The ceramics you collect on the windowsill are an autobiography. The way you arrange books by color, by subject, horizontally, in delib...
WHAT OBJECTS (tchotchkes) ACTUALLY COMMUNICATE Walk into any room and read it the way a curator would. Not: Do I like this? But: What does this say? The oversized sectional pushed against three w...
Look at your room as if you've never seen it before, not as the person who had arranged it, but as the person encountering it for the first time. This is genuinely difficult because familiarity is ...
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