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10 Interior Design Tips for a Stunning Home Office on a shoestring budget

  • by Guest
  • Posted on April 30, 2026April 30, 2026

Written in 2020, when everyone suddenly needed a home office by Tuesday. The tips are practical, budget-friendly, and honestly still relevant, because bad lighting and no storage did not stop being problems after the pandemic ended.

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Scoop and Chill

  • by Guest
  • Posted on June 26, 2025January 6, 2026

Ice cream and interior design or both?
Here are the top 3 spots to check out in Toronto as we are heading into August!

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10 Genius Home Office Upgrades That Cost Almost Nothing

  • by Guest
  • Posted on February 25, 2025January 3, 2026

My office makeover cost less than I expected—because I did this first.

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Top Creative Gifts for Picky Friends

  • by Guest
  • Posted on December 13, 2024January 6, 2026

Gift giving for all your creative frieds!

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8 Lighting Tricks for Small Spaces to look bigger, at least visually speaking

  • by Guest
  • Posted on September 19, 2024January 3, 2026

Many lighting tricks to make your small space

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Mood boosting essentials for working at home

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on August 8, 2024January 3, 2026

Discover simple yet effective mood-boosting essentials to make working from home more enjoyable and energizing, beyond the usual productivity hacks.

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Founder of DESIGNwith, shares her insights on driving social change through design

  • by Guest
  • Posted on June 21, 2024January 3, 2026

Meet our guest writer, Ranee Lee, an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at OCAD University.…

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From Pencils to Paychecks: design graduate’s questions to building a stellar design career

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on April 16, 2024January 3, 2026

Top 5 questions I received from my students for future career planning

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How great branding affects the design of an interior space

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on November 2, 2023January 3, 2026

the reciprocal relationship between Branding and Interior Design

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5 Life lessons from buying a piece of furniture

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on August 10, 2023January 3, 2026

Designer’s experience buying her family sofa

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What has shimmery dress done to my dreary spring blues?

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on March 30, 2023January 3, 2026

Sparkle is not only for holiday nights.

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Why I can’t throw out my two decade old coat

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on January 20, 2023January 3, 2026

Hoarding may be good for our souls.

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GLAM kitchen without the sparkles – Kitchen Countertops – the natural stone trend

  • by Guest
  • Posted on October 13, 2022January 3, 2026

Holidays are coming! Time to jazz up the most used space in our homes, especially on cold winter days.

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White is new Black

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on July 28, 2022January 3, 2026

White crochet top is the ‘it’ trend in 2022, I was told. It is time to take out the old gift to let it see the daylight again!

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What would the new restaurant design be like in the post pandemic time?

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on February 17, 2022January 3, 2026

Designers to be futurists?

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Talking Minimal

  • by June
  • Posted on March 12, 2019January 3, 2026

Design is a key factor that orients how our daily life functions and constantly influences…

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The Psychology Of A Designers’ Workspace

  • by Crystal Yung
  • Posted on January 8, 2019January 3, 2026

Hello readers! My name is Crystal Yung and I am a new contributor to the…

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Organized chaos- how I personalize my room

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on December 7, 2017January 3, 2026

I remember when my family first moved in, my bedroom felt so desolate. Our house…

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How interior designer, Ania Trica works and lives her design infused life

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on July 21, 2017January 3, 2026

  Please check out our interior design contributor, Ania Trica and how she lives her…

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7 Steps to tackling the home renovation with small budget

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on June 23, 2017January 3, 2026

We feature an orginal post by our guest contributor, Ania Trica from Trica Design Studio.…

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