As a client, how do you prevent paying for design work you really don’t want? Making sure you know what you’re getting before you have it built helps. Today there isn’t any greater way to comprehend and have a feel for new design than to see it in 3-D. Rather than your having rely on […]
Author: Wiliat
A Smart-Home Jewel in Vancouver
When Joe Walters purchased his Vancouver house, there was a broken-down car on the front lawn and “you can see the sky through the rotting roof,” he says. However Walters, founder of Radec Group, a company which builds homes and oversees commercial projects, and his wife, Karla, took their time constructing the home in the […]
Edit Your Photo Collection and Display It Finest — a Designer's Advice
A couple of weeks back, I was standing with my client, staring at the blank wall next to her entrance. The room itself was already finish, but we had not yet figured out the wall space. We were playing with the idea of hanging one really big black and white candid photo of her kids, […]
So You Bought a Cave: 7 Strategies to Open Your Home to Lighting
When I was a woman I had been a tree hugger, and that’s no metaphor. My childhood home was in a clearing surrounded by beautiful woods, which I adored. Had you told youthful me, face pressed against the back of my favourite maple, I’d one day see trees as the enemy, so I wouldn’t have […]
Resourcefulness Shows in a Rugged Montana Cabin
“We are living in the realm of resourcefulness out here,” says builder Dave Radatti of Northern Montana’s Mindful Designs. Northern Montanans are resourceful when it comes to reclaiming, reusing, creating their own homes, staying warm and even besting the house mortgage system. When catchy loan requirements threatened to reevaluate the purchase of 10 acres in […]
How to Select the Ideal Garden Ceiling
You’re sitting in your own garden. You look up. What do you really see? Robin’s egg–blue skies and cotton ball clouds? A leafy canopy shimmering in a cinch? Maybe it’s an umbrella, a gazebo or a rose-covered trellis. Every part of your garden has a ceiling, even if it’s the skies above. Now this might […]
Lighthearted Charm Boosts a 1920s Bungalow
True midcentury kitchen appliances, a darling enclosed sunporch and a spacious basement master suite helped sell this Denver couple in their residence. While their previous downtown loft had its upsides, Caylin Engle and Colin Scott yearned for more space than they had in their 800-square-foot loft. This 1926 bungalow doubles their square footage and has […]
How to Clean and Care for Your Butcher Block
A fantastic butcher block is a fixture in any kitchen and contributes to the nature of the food that’s prepared there. It acquires a fantastic seasoning precisely the same way cast iron cookware does. Wood is durable but merciful to knives and can be refinished countless times. Take decent care of your butcher block, and […]
Campaign Tables Lead the Charge for Chic
French effort tables, using their slender lines and accordion-style bases, have such an air of romance and adventure about them. Also known as gueridons, they were originally used during military operations because they were really simple to transport. Nowadays you are more likely to see them in the house than on the battlefield — their […]
12 Predictions in 2013 for Architecture
Trendwise, architecture is notoriously slow, given the cumulative pace of design and construction. Many trends arise from events in the recent past and changes that evolve over the years. To make some predictions concerning what trends will form structure in 2013 is a tricky affair, mixing some glances to the past and a few prognostication. […]