The Palette Project #1: Jack Poole Plaza
Today marks the first day of our Palette Project! It all started like this: back in April, we collaborated with our friend Heather Ross to host a workshop on colour. We had a great time discussing colour palettes, why some things work and others don't, and making palettes of our own. One take-away from that workshop was that inspiration is quite literally everywhere—but choosing what colours to use can be tricky...
5 trends that defined our LA Design Tour
It’s been a little while since we landed back in Vancouver from our design sojourn in La La Land, but our brains are still buzzing with inspiration. We had such a great time with our design tour participants too! Each time we go to LA we make sure to explore new spaces and uncover what’s emerging in west coast design. It probably is no surprise that LA is a goldmine for innovative interior and exterior design; we made sure to...
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...
My Year of De-cluttering, Styling, Selling, Downsizing, Moving and Renovating
My Year of De-cluttering, Styling, Selling, Downsizing, Moving and Renovating Holy Cow what a year I have had! I finally feel ready to share how this whole saga went down. As many of you know, Graham and I decided the time was right to downsize. Not just to reduce our house size, but also the size of our debt, our overhead - our whole operation. We sat down one day and realized there was way more to life than what we...
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: Prepping the Deck
Prepping the DeckWhether you have a wood or concrete deck or patio it does take a little preparation and elbow grease to get it all ready for summer. The winter inevitably leaves its mark with algae and moss and we need to get rid of it in order to enjoy our time outdoors to the fullest AND to prolong the life of our deck.Contemporary Deck by Los Angeles Architects & Building Designers Hsu McCulloughContemporary Deck by Other Metro Landscape Architects...
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...