Journal

Notes from the drawing room.

What I have learned specifying, drawing and building interiors, written for the people who will live in them.

The four-layer lighting plan I use in every room

Most homes are lit with one bulb per room on one switch. Four layers cost very little more and change everything.

Brass, stone and oiled wood all look worse in year one and better in year ten. That is the point.

Six questions that tell me more about your home than a hundred saved images ever could.

Painting a small room white is the most repeated and least examined rule in decorating.

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