Why we started
Most interiors writing falls into one of two traps. It is either a catalogue — a grid of products with affiliate links and no argument — or it is aspirational to the point of uselessness, photographed in a house nobody actually lives in.
We wanted a third thing: writing that explains why a room works. The ratio of colour to neutral. The eight inches of wall you should leave empty. The reason your shelves look cluttered even though you own less than your neighbour.
Principles travel. Once you understand why a grouping of three reads as intentional and a grouping of seven reads as clutter, you can apply that in any room, in any house, at any budget. That is what we are trying to teach.
How we work
Every project is done before it is published. If we say a DIY planter takes three hours and costs eight dollars, it is because we made one and kept the receipts. When something does not work, we say so — the troubleshooting sections in our guides are written from genuine mistakes.
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