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After one week
After one week of being by our mother’s bedside day and night, then one week planning and executing a service in her memory, I had one week to move out of the house my daughter and I had lived in for the past safe and savory six years as we had sold it months ago and...
Let’s talk about space
Let’s talk about space. We North Americans have more than we need while our European counterparts fit three rooms in the size of one of our garages where we have parked...our stack of empty Tupperware. Half a lifetime ago as a young influenceable actor in New York...
I was the only person in color
I was the only person in color at Restoration Hardware. Until our new home is built I will be wearing our home’s colors. Yes I am going to the dark side and doing beige...but really, did you not get the safari memo? Touches of burnt mud, Masai ochre, Gobi sands, cream...
Hundred years of alterations means one hundred years of layering
Wouldn’t you know that one hundred years of alterations means one hundred years of layering. It takes guts to filet a heritage house. To find the delicate bones beneath the aggregated flesh. Yet this is where the beauty is oft hidden away. There may have been a trying...
You see that petite patch of promise?
You see that petite patch of promise? That sweet scratch of special? Seeing this little gem at my toes set my hairs on end. It is the real deal historical terrazzo floor in what used to be Richard Robinson’s old digs on Sussex. It was under glued floors, plastic thin...
I will admit to styling homes around beautiful canines
I will admit to styling homes around beautiful canines. It makes sense: pets are reflections of their owners. We sublimate our best selves in the choice of our four-legged companions and so it logically follows that if a designer can pull the qualities of the client’s...
Have you had the red velvet waffles at the Clarendon yet?
Have you had the red velvet waffles at the Clarendon yet? As I sit here in Boston my Sunday brunch game is dreaming a little dream of the berry soft waffles coated in whipped cream and fruit coulis.
The caressable chestnut leather sample was all it took
As the Empire of MacDonald’s was founded on owning the real estate it catered their fast food to, I am fast wondering if Restoration Hardware took a page from their successful blueprint model. When walking through this palazzo in the heart of Boston, my mind was more...
My inner Viking roar
My mood boards for the “Paper-mill Safari” concept are shaping up. I give you two of these for illustration. Words of encouragement much appreciated. Building permits are being submitted after being approved by heritage and now it is really down to spatial...
See? You only need to ask once
The Clarendon’s “Moules Frites and Makeout” snug pub where last night some very tired parents (Ottawa euphemism for hungover) had a smorgasbord of meatballs, braised beef, lamb skewers and trout, mushroom demi poutine, fried cauliflower, scotch egg, tomato flatbread...