[caption id="attachment_16618" align="alignnone" width="300"] Kintsugi photo: June's Child[/caption] [ik_fb_like_button title="Kintsugi and the Art of the Broken Pieces" page_id="http://daydreamincorporated.com" height="45" colorscheme="light"] For 2018, consider the beauty in the broken. With each new year comes new resolve in the form of "resolutions" that many of us make to ourselves, our...
When you think of exciting, sexy rooms to dress up and talk about, the Laundry room is probably not even on the list. It is functional at best, meant to be neither seen nor heard, but to be used and then closed off. [caption id="attachment_16339" align="alignright" width="300"]...
[caption id="attachment_16459" align="alignright" width="289"] Artist: Helen Green[/caption] Time may change me...
It's not exactly the Jetsons, but we've said for a long time that technology is the single most important factor when it comes to changing or advancing design. Designers need to stay on top of the technology in order to give our clients the leading edge...
There is a revolution happening right now within the construction industry that makes the interior designer role even more relevant than before. It's an owner-driven revolution, led by the "new consumer", our client. And this new process has a name as well: "Experiential Design". Experiential Design is different than design processes...
It is said that "a good relationship starts with good communication." Make no mistake: every engagement with another in our lives can fall into the category of "relationship". We relate to people all the time -- our kids, our spouse or partner, our parents, our co-workers...
One hundred years ago, an odd, socially awkward patent clerk in Switzerland named Albert Einstein, surmised a theory so far beyond the capacity of man and science of the time to understand, that it was dismissed. He called it the "general theory of relativity". It was a...
At the end of every year, "color forecasters" put out their color predictions for the coming year. It's a suggestion of what experts believe will be the color that will have the greatest impact on fashion, interiors and retail merchandising in the coming year. Often, it seems, this color acts...
“Maybe this year will be….” It’s the end of another year! Seems it happens faster and faster, the older I get. We roll through spring, summer, complain about the weather/heat/cold/rain, get that first blast of fall in the morning air and rejoice…that’s where the renewal seems...
Welcome!! If you are reading this, you've discovered our new website and now, within the new, shiny website, the blog spot. I have always fancied myself a writer; in fact, I think the Great American Novel (heretofore known as the GAN) is still within me...