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I met a dream client years ago. Here is what happened at the first meeting.

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on November 13, 2025November 13, 2025

Editor’s Note (2025): This is an old post. The client’s building sold two years ago…

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Scoop and Chill

  • by Guest
  • Posted on June 26, 2025June 26, 2025

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, 2025February 25, 2025

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, 2024December 13, 2024

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, 2024September 19, 2024

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, 2024August 8, 2024

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

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on April 16, 2024April 16, 2024

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, 2023November 2, 2023

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, 2023March 31, 2024

Designer’s experience buying her family sofa

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Why this perfectly renovated house made me feel uneasy

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on June 29, 2023June 29, 2023

Turns out all renovation is not created equal

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

  • by Guest
  • Posted on October 13, 2022October 13, 2022

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

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The Art Of People Watching

  • by Guest
  • Posted on September 29, 2022September 29, 2022

Can people watching be a study?

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

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on February 17, 2022February 15, 2022

Designers to be futurists?

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Feeling good with wood

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on January 20, 2022August 29, 2022

Can wood help us from our forced indoor life.?

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

  • by Guest
  • Posted on September 1, 2020September 1, 2020

I thought this old post was relevant to what we are going through in this pandemic. It is written for everyone who is working in their bed!

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5 questions you like to ask the contractors at the first meeting but afraid to

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on September 20, 2019January 2, 2025

“Do you have secrets to selecting the right contractors for YOUR project?” I get asked…

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Talking Minimal

  • by June
  • Posted on March 12, 2019November 28, 2019

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 8, 2019

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, 2017December 6, 2017

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

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7 Steps to tackling the home renovation with small budget

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on June 23, 2017September 7, 2017

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

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