Muneeb Khan 
My uncle bought a live-edge suar wood dining table two years ago. Sight unseen, mostly, just photos from an online listing. It arrived warped along one edge, barely noticeable in pictures, obvious the second it sat under his dining room light. He’d skipped asking about moisture content entirely. That one mistake cost him a return … Read more
My sister moved into her first apartment last spring with a mattress, a folding chair, and not much else. She called me in a panic, no idea where to start. I’d just finished my own living room a few months before, tight budget, no real plan going in either, so I ended up repeating whatever … Read more
My aunt painted her kitchen cabinets bright white back in 2019. Everyone was doing the all white thing then, and she wanted in. Loved it for maybe two years. Then it started reading cold, almost like a lab, especially against her gray countertops. She’s repainting again this spring, warm greige this time, and she told … Read more
We tore out our lawn two summers ago. I went in thinking landscaping just meant picking plants, which, apparently, is exactly the wrong place to start. Our designer, Priya, corrected that fast. What she introduced me to is something she calls landscape morphing, this idea that a garden should shift with the seasons and with … Read more
A friend of mine spent four hundred dollars on a playroom makeover last spring, a rug, a teepee, three storage bins, and a wall decal set from the same online cart. Her kids used it for exactly one afternoon. The teepee turned into a blanket closet by the following weekend, and the rug mostly just … Read more
Clients bring this up constantly, usually before I’ve even pulled up a single floor plan. “I want a Craftsman house,” someone will say, and what they’re actually describing is a single-family home with a good front porch and some exposed beams. Those aren’t the same conversation, not even close, and conflating them early on tends … Read more
Most people start decorating the wrong way. They pick a color they saw on a mood board, order a sofa that photographs well, and spend three weekends arranging things that never quite settle into feeling right. I did exactly this in the first apartment I styled professionally for myself, not a client, which is somehow … Read more
Twenty years after the movie’s release. People are still searching for the notebook house, and the honest answer surprises most of them. It’s real, it’s still standing, and someone actually lives there. This isn’t a set that got dismantled after filming wrapped or a facade built on a studio backlot. It’s a genuine historic property … Read more
There is a particular kind of confusion that sets in when someone first tries to navigate social housing in London. The names change, the organisations restructure, the contact numbers redirect, and what was called one thing five years ago is now called something else entirely with the same people inside it doing largely the same … Read more
The house I helped with three summers ago had orange 1990s brick the kind that dated the whole facade so aggressively you couldn’t look past it. The owners had been quoted just over $10,000 to have it professionally limewashed. We did it ourselves over two weekends for under $3,000. The difference was real, not just … Read more
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