Hey Reader, I was scrolling late one night when I stopped on this bathroom: deep green tiles, a striped sink skirt in pink and green, light pouring in from a roof window. It felt like stepping inside a flower bouquet. Color isn’t an accent; it is structure. The green isn’t just a background, it’s the stem; the pink isn’t “pop of color,” it’s the blooms. When you think of it this way, green + fuchsia stops being a risky palette and becomes something your eye already understands from nature. In...
8 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, Every morning, I notice the light shifting slightly across the room. It’s subtle, but over time you start to see patterns — where the sun lands, how it moves, how it changes the feeling of the space. Most people think good interiors come from furniture or finishes. But often, it’s light. And while you possibly can’t change your windows, you can change how you work with them. The most common mistake is treating windows like a background. Sofas get pushed against walls. Tables go...
15 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Walk into almost any artist’s studio and you’ll notice something immediately. It rarely feels “decorated.” The furniture might be simple. The walls may be imperfect. Objects are not always arranged with visual symmetry. And yet the space often feels right. Balanced. Calm. Functional. That’s because artists design their environments around how they actually work — not around how the room should look in a photograph. There are a few lessons in that approach that translate...
22 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, NYC apartments are small. But most of the time, they don’t feel small because of square footage. They feel small because of layout decisions. After walking through dozens of city apartments — in all NYC boroughs — I’ve noticed the same patterns repeating. Not expensive mistakes.Spatial mistakes. Furniture Floats Without Purpose Sofas pushed against walls. Dining tables blocking circulation. Islands oversized for the room. The issue isn’t the furniture itself. It’s that nothing is...
29 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, This week’ snow blizzard in New York shut the city down. Husband worked from home — loud on a Zoom call. I couldn’t concentrate on my own work. Forget about listening to my podcast. Luckily, I had already built myself a small corner in the bedroom, facing the window.A small chair and one of the boxes we used for moving in - as a table. Not glamorous at all. But it’s mine. And that is exactly why I always suggest to make three decisions before buying any single piece of furniture....
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, The other night we had seven people over for dinner. As you might know already, we’ve just moved into our new apartment, so our furniture situation is… aspirational. When I realized we didn’t have enough chairs, I did what any friendly neighbor would do: I went knocking on doors. Only one neighbor opened.He had exactly one spare chair — a heavy work chair that would had been a nightmare to move.Husband ended up sitting on his trumpet case. It was funny.But it was also a perfect...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, Lately I keep seeing “minimalism” reduced to the same image: all-white rooms, greige everything, and a complete absence of personality. It looks clean, sure—but it often feels more like a waiting room than a life well-lived. That’s not my version of minimalism. For me, minimalism is about balance: the right mix of functionality, shapes, and colors, all working together so nothing feels extra, but nothing feels missing either. It’s what nature does effortlessly—think of a rocky...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, This week I watched a video of an interior designer talking about how difficult it was to work on their own home. I stopped halfway through — because I felt exactly the same. When it’s your own space, you don’t see one solution. You see all of them.Endlessssss possibilities - that quickly turn into frustration. And emotion enters the picture more than we expect. Working on our apartment has made me feel closer to my clients than ever.Not only because of uncertainty, but because of...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader — happy new year! December was full of family dinners, friends, and long evenings that stretched a little too late. Then January started fast: Husband and I moved into a new apartment. Same neighborhood, newer building. Life restarted immediately, full speed. We didn’t have time to finalize all furniture choices — and that turned out to be good news. The rooms are already teaching us things no moodboard can. Where we naturally sit, what feels missing and what is not needed. That’s...
2 months ago • 1 min read