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Honest, practical writing on interior design — AI tools, trends, room planning, and the mistakes we keep helping people undo.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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