Seasonal · Oct 5, 2026 · 6 min read
Halloween Interior Design That Skips the Party Store
A temporary October layer: candlelight, one dark table, a door that can take a joke. Nothing that has to be scraped off the wall in November.
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Seasonal · Oct 4, 2026 · 5 min read
Autumn Interior Design: Textiles, Light, and Colour
September light, one rust textile, dried branches. Not a shopping list, and not a costume. The edit that should still look right after Halloween.
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Seasonal · Oct 3, 2026 · 6 min read
Spooky Season Interior Design for Rooms You Live In
The dark, candlelit feeling without the skeleton in the corner. Charcoal paint, warm lamps, and the materials that still work after Halloween.
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Colour · Sep 17, 2026 · 7 min read
Paint Colour of the Year 2027: Every Brand's Pick So Far
Celery, Grounded, Cottage Door, Artifact, Deep Rooted, Rose Earth. Six paint brands have named their 2027 colour, Benjamin Moore and Pantone haven't, and only two of the six belong on a north-facing Toronto wall.
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Design Events · Sep 17, 2026 · 8 min read
London Design Festival 2026: What's Worth Your Attention
Studio Saar's bamboo Pangolin Shield on the Strand, 3,500 fibre-optic points inside St Paul's, and live woodworking in a Chelsea mews. Read from Toronto, not the Strand — and filtered for what survives contact with a real home.
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Materials · Sep 17, 2026 · 9 min read
Mycelium Furniture & Biomaterials: What's Real in 2026
Every design festival for five years has had a mushroom in it. Here's the honest split: one category you can specify today, one that's really a fashion material, and a pile of beautiful prototypes that aren't going in anyone's living room yet.
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Tools & Planning · Aug 4, 2026 · 12 min read
How Much Does Interior Design Cost? Real 2026 Numbers
Hourly, flat fee, or a percentage of spend? Here's how interior designers actually price a project, what a room or a whole home realistically costs, and the line most people forget to budget for.
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Design Psychology · Aug 3, 2026 · 8 min read
Halley VI: What Antarctica Teaches About Colour Psychology
Wind at 160 km/h, no sunrise for 105 days, and a research station that hired a colour psychologist anyway. What Halley VI's red social module teaches every room that has nowhere else for you to go.
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Tools & Planning · Aug 3, 2026 · 13 min read
2026 Renovation Trends: What's Worth the Investment
Before you spend a dollar on 2026 trends, here's my three-tier framework for what's worth investing in, what's a cheap swap, and what I'd tell you to skip entirely.
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Colour · Jul 13, 2026 · 5 min read
Colour Capping: A Designer's Guide to This Paint Trend
A contrast band at the ceiling line, not a whole accent wall. What colour capping actually is, where it comes from, and how to get the boundary right.
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Design History · Jul 13, 2026 · 10 min read
Acoustic Architecture: From Stonehenge to Your Living Room
Stonehenge may have been tuned like noise-cancelling headphones thousands of years before Sony existed. What archaeoacoustics and a $900-million German concert hall taught me about designing quiet rooms at home.
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Kids' Rooms · Jul 4, 2026 · 11 min read
Gender-Neutral Kids' Room Design: A Designer's Guide
Pink-for-girls and blue-for-boys is a 1980s marketing decision, not biology. Here's what the research actually says about kids and colour, and how I'd build a room that gives a child room to grow.
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AI & Tools · Jun 27, 2026 · 14 min read
Best AI Interior Design Tools + 2026 Trends (A Designer's Honest Take)
Which AI design tools earn their place, what's genuinely changing in 2026, where I find real inspiration, and the traps I keep pulling clients out of. No affiliate links, no filler.
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Styles · Jun 27, 2026 · 11 min read
Brutalist Interior Design at Home: A Designer's 2026 Guide
Brutalism is the fastest-growing style search of 2026, and the most misread. Here's what soft brutalism really is, how to do it at home without a gut renovation, and how to keep it from feeling like a bunker.
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AI & Tools · Jun 25, 2026 · 11 min read
Best AI Interior Design Tools, Compared (2026)
RoomGPT vs Visualize AI vs Interior AI, tested on real projects. What each one is actually for, where they fall apart, and which I'd reach for by job.
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Trends · Jun 24, 2026 · 12 min read
Interior Design Trends 2026: A Designer's Honest Read
The cold grey era is finished. My honest take on what's genuinely changing in 2026 — warm minimalism, earthy colour, texture, curves done right — and the trends I'd quietly skip.
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Colour · Jun 23, 2026 · 9 min read
Interior Design Colour Trends 2026: A Designer's Take
The 2026 colour authorities split — Pantone went white, the paint brands went warm and earthy. What that contrast tells you, every colour of the year, and how I'd actually paint a room.
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Tools & Planning · Jun 20, 2026 · 10 min read
Interior Design Games & Room Planners: A Designer's Take
Which design games and room planners genuinely teach scale, layout, and furnishing, which are good for styling practice, and which are pure entertainment, plus the workflow I use to plan a real room.
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Toronto · Feb 2, 2026 · 8 min read
Interior Design Show Toronto 2026: A Designer's Recap
Field notes from IDS Toronto 2026 — the standouts I'd actually spec, what the floor signalled for the year ahead, and how to work the show if you go next January.
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