Accidentally Designing

Yes Cool Like That ! It all started leading up to Christmas 2024 and New Years Eve 2024/25. I was feeling tres negative about my aging body. I needed to cling on to hope of finding a solution to the 'Weight Creep' I was experiencing. Apparently, once you get to the ripe old age of 40, it is not uncommon for both women and men...

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night with words swirling around in your mind? These words, all of a sudden, find their place and you are reading an internal dialogue, story or poem? Like a waking dream. This has been happening to me lately. The result has been not about designing but redesigning my thoughts, who I am, and what I...

  Well, Murphy's Law. I am in bed in the back room of my parent's house for the third day, waiting to recover from a virus caught on the plane from France to Australia. I am trying to think clearly about the budget apartment Reno project. It is an apartment in an iconic apartment block near the Yarra River that was originally built to house...

Can the balance between preserving authenticity and embracing transformation truly be achieved? It's a question that resonates deeply with me, particularly when reflecting on my own life. There's a lot I wish to change, I wonder whether I really want to. I see a similarity with this, and the way I approach renovation. Speaking of renovation, check out the amazing Australian lighting store I have...

Fascinating Brutalist Architecture and New Rope Clothes Hangers are two of my recent obsessions. Brutalism: It is art, a sculpture you can walk in, work in, live in. In the 1950s, in the UK, the architectural vibe called was emerging. It was all about showcasing raw materials like concrete, steel, and brick and ditching the fancy stuff for a more minimalist look, using large structural...

What dictates the colour of the year, who decides, and what are they looking for? My Pantone colour guides are a wonderful world of colour; strangely, I rarely refer to them. At the moment, I love the muted and often matte pastel hues used for objects like bathroom vanity basins and on walls. Contrasted with arches and drawing inspiration from historical styles with an up-to-date palette...Pastels...