In theory, the color of a room has the power to affect your mood. Colors can make you feel warm and comfortable, or anxious and excited. Some colors even make you feel hungry. Colors can become associated in our brains with events or people. 
In Feng Shui, Color is one of the easiest ways to shift [...]

When I was a growing up and spending time at my Grandparents home, squeaky floors were warm and inviting just like Grandma’s fresh baked chocolate chip cookies and the candy dish full of Grandpa’s lemon drops. That is just the way it was…the floors at Grandpa and Grandma’s always squeaked. Their home was built in the early 1900’s, and I didn’t think [...]

I want to share a little book which might positively impact your business and creative life. I just finished Dan Pink’s new book “Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us“. It wraps together some new and older research on cognitive science, psychology and business process thinking. You can also hear Dan speak about [...]

If you haven’t heard of “pozzolans,” then you are missing out on a concrete idea that can make projects greener.  Thousands of years ago the Greeks and Romans built structures that are still standing today by incorporating pozzolans into the mix - literally into the mix.
The Romans used lime and a fine volcanic ash (pozzolana) to create [...]

Whether you are redecorating your own home or designing the interiors for a multi-million dollar development, there are 10 Golden Rules of Interior Design that should always be obeyed. Ignore them at your peril! According to yours truly, they are as follows:

Write a clear and detailed brief. Know exactly what you are trying to achieve, [...]

I teach a lot of entrepreneurial classes and one question that is always asked during the session is “Should I reduce my price?”
Of course you can do anything you want, but is it really worth it to lower your prices? There was an article in USA Today in August of 2009 talking about the consequences [...]

Normally with street view, you can only see views where a car can physically go, but now they are including the ability to look at the public uploaded pictures on Google Maps.
If, let’s say, you were touring Trafalgar Square in London on Street View, you would just go around in circles.  Now, however, you can [...]

“Traditional interior design brings the warmth and elegance of the past into the present.” 
Traditional interior design is perhaps the most popular style in America today. It has roots in earlier generations but still manages to embrace the present with style and comfort. 
The shapes in this style setting are typically very graceful. Curving lines are very [...]

As an architect and shaper of place and space, I grapple with the dilemma of how and why to integrate nature into the buildings I’m involved with and how to make them meaningful for those who use them. Designing buildings and places involves a conversation of sorts between a building site, the people who use [...]

Education in the U.S. is heavily skewed toward the college experience. When you talk to parents of children and young adults, they talk about saving for college. In my experience I have never heard a parent say they were saving for their child’s vocational school education.
Yet for many people, vocational school would be far more [...]