It’s inevitable. You turn 30 and shortly after you find yourself aghast by the cheap Ikea furniture donned by your post-college apartment. You remember the summer after you graduated and wonder when your décor stopped resembling the uber-cool Scandinavian minimalist to once thought it was. You knew the post-college furniture was a phase and now [...]

<a href=”http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/1833437/curiosity-manifesto?claim=9hafekbtek8″>Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a> The hottest trend in the 2012 fashion forecast is LEATHER so it’s no surprise that these haute hides are finding their way into every avenue of design from sheik interiors to designer pet products. The use of leather has come quite a ways from the overstuffed cigar chair for granddaddy’s [...]

It’s not unusual for designers to want control over multiple facets of design and yet so often project teams are fragmented. Assembling a design staff with truly diverse talents can be difficult and is probably more rare than we realize. Still, I imagine the possibilities are great.

Since moving from the East Coast to California three years ago I have found myself privy to many-a-comment about East Coast vs. West Coast design. Oddly enough, while working as a designer on the East Coast I had never once heard anyone identify the style differences as they pertain to interior architecture.

Monday mornings start with design staff boasting who went the longest without sleep or who worked the most days in a row without a day off or who hasn’t taken a single vacation day in 15 years. When did we decide that working harder was more valuable than working smarter?

When used judiciously and in the right environment flocked wallcoverings will illicit fluttering hearts and high-pitched squeaks of glee from all who behold its beauty.