What the hygge?
Like avocado toast and geods, the Danish concept of hygge has been growing in popularity with no signs of slowing down. It's appearing everywhere from how-to books to interior design collections and Instagram accounts (at the time of writing there are 2,033,609 posts with #hygge).We might have a general idea of what it means, maybe a quick glance at the back of a book on the hygge display at Chapters let you know it's inclusive of coziness and a feeling of...
Bringing the Gallery Home
Art galleries. This particular place may bring to mind a large public institution with cavernous rooms, or something cool and modern on the same street as high-end boutiques, or even an artist-run space filled to the rafters with unique works...
Discovering Colour, Inspired by Nature
Last weekend we packed our studio with material samples, inspiring objects, and a gorgeous floral bouquet or two in preparation for our sold out workshop "Discovering Colour: Nature as Your Guide". For this workshop, Brooke and Tina had the pleasure of collaborating with the multi-talented Heather Ross to take our participants deep into into the world of colour and coach them on how to look critically at colour and how to develop harmonious palettes for their design projects. Armed with...
Styling the New Year
2017 is well underway. For many of us the new year is a wake up call to get things done and take on new projects. No matter where you look this time of year, you'll probably see words like 'fresh!', 'revitalize!', 'new!', 'better!'-- even in the design world. Now that the fog of the holiday season has lifted and the magic touches of festive decor are packed away in boxes some living spaces may be looking more hum drum than you remember...
Downsizing with Designers Collective
Downsizing with Design Coaches, Brooke and TinaWe are so pleased with the way our Olympic Village Design Coaching project has turned out.This project is a great example of how “coaching” can work in design. Our clients had sold their large Dunbar family home and were moving to a much smaller condo in Olympic Village. They were in a dilemma about how to manage all their furniture and how best to go about deciding what would fit and what they would...
LOCAL: How opportunity became a creative network
With a show of hands...
Brooke’s European Adventures Continue
Our European adventures continue! We arrived mid afternoon after a near miss of having my luggage stolen on the train-luckily my partner, Randy noticed and confronted the fellow who easily relented but needless to say we were a little more cautious after that. We took the metro to our hotel and the very first sight we saw when getting off the metro was Gaudi’s Battlo house! I couldn’t wait to get started! Getting around Barcelona was fairly straight forward- we...
Brooke’s European Sojourn Part 1
I have been back from my European sojourn for about ten days now and thought I would share a bit about my adventures.A very good friend of mine moved to France last year and so it was a great opportunity for me and another friend to go visit her. First, let me stop here for a moment. She MOVED to FRANCE. A few years ago this friend decided she wanted to learn French so she took a year off of...
IDS Vancouver: A Well of Inspiration
Hello again!This year, September was absolutely full of design events and projects! Conveniently, this means we are immersed in inspiration before the holiday season takes off and we have lots of opportunities to include our favourite design elements in dining tables, new interiors, seasonal decoration, parties, the list goes on! Sometimes the hardest part is refining what you love and translating it from a showroom, magazine page (or blog!) to your own space.A standout on our calendars was the Interior...
Spring Style
Spring StyleAs Spring is here, it is not only time to change things inside our homes but it is time to put away our winter woolies and break out the tee shirts and lighter wear. We have pulled together some choices for casual wear that we think suit this change of season. It is quite warm already but we are including outer wear and long sleeves for the chillier days but we think these outfits could morph into summer wear...