As many of you know, I moved into my first house a few years back. I had owned a couple of loft spaces over the years but I liked the idea of having more outdoor space and our house has almost a half acre of land. “Houses are hungry,” is what my client Sheryl McLean said and she wasn’t lying. From the get go this house wanted my attention. It started with an undisclosed leak by the seller in the primary bath, that forced me into a renovation three weeks into homeownership and living in a new...
4 months ago • 2 min read
I was in Los Angeles last week and ended up having a very design-filled couple of days. I visited the gorgeous studio of my recent, private client Haus of Meeshie: HōM in a historic part of Westchester I had never visited in the almost twenty years I lived in LA. Then I visited my client Jill Romine while she installed her owner's suite and bath at the Pasadena Showcase house. (I can't share pictures but the room has a bed and a feeling, you have to see in person when it's open in April.) I...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Historian Bettany Hughes OBE has said that even though women have always made up 50 per cent of the population, they occupy less than 0.5 per cent of recorded history. I wish I could say that estimate surprised me. Ever been to the Louvre? In the 35K objects on display and across roughly 1400 different artists, only 22 are women. Hughes says that even though women were prominently featured in archaeological records visually and in artifacts, they largely disappear once recorded history begins...
5 months ago • 2 min read
My word for 2024 was ease. When February’s rocky road started tumbling in, I forgot all about it and then last week, the word resurfaced again in my mind. Part of that is because life’s gotten a lot easier. That has less to do with life though, and more to do with my perspective on it. Ease reveals itself as I accept and surrender to a lesson ease is teaching me: the places I make it hard. Back in February I was starting to get a clue that some of the situations where I found myself invested...
about 2 years ago • 2 min read
When you’ve set an intention for a new vision and hit the start button, it usually gets messy. Everything that is not a match for that vision will present itself, usually in the form of a problem. Whether it's unfinished business, relationships that are no longer a fit or other energy leaks. From a metaphysical standpoint, your new vision needs space to expand. It's literally going to clear out the old and make way for the new. Now despite how you might feel in the moment Reader, problems are...
over 2 years ago • 1 min read