Building or renovating a home will test even the most solid partnerships, and renovating with your partner often catches normally compatible, thoughtful couples off guard. What begins as an exciting plan to improve your lifestyle can quickly become emotionally charged, not because something has gone wrong, but because renovation sits at the intersection of money, identity, control, and daily life. As an interior designer, I have learned that the job frequently comes with a pa

The stressors of 21st-century life are not abstract. Our clients are running companies, managing complex family schedules, traveling frequently, and carrying a level of cognitive load that never truly switches off. The home should be the one environment where the nervous system has an opportunity to downshift. During Covid, the realization that our collective cultural design direction of the last couple of decades did not, in fact, support that goal became unavoidable. When w

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