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Creating living and work spaces that nourish your spirit – and respect the planet.

Monogrammed Towels: Made For You

Dwelling | August 14th, 2008 by Karryn Ransom | Comments | Leave a comment

We’re combing the globe for cool, quality, things that can be made just for…you. The way you like it. Because we’re all about helping you to be…YOU. Let us know your fav made-to-order outlets and we’ll check them out!

A Great Wedding Gift

Monogrammes is a Canadian company that offers gift-giving on a simple and thoughtful level. Elegant and top-quality, all the linens from Monogrammes are customizable and make for delightful future heirlooms.

Products range from hand towels to Christening gowns, travel totes to cosmetic bags. If there’s a special occasion in your life, this is one of the most thoughtful and exquisite ways to mark it. And even if there isn’t a special occasion

 

How to display a collection of treasures: C&D’s Studio

Dwelling | August 14th, 2008 by Carrie McCarthy | Comments | Leave a comment


I love our white studio…full of  treasures. Kid’s art, torn magazine covers, worn books, tea pots. I really need to feel inspired in my work space, to feel beauty in my surroundings so I create vignettes. They’re like little paintings.

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Stylin’ Slumber: DIY Design

Dwelling | July 30th, 2008 by Karryn Ransom | Comments | Leave a comment

We’re combing the globe for cool, quality, DIY Design…because we’re all about helping you to be…YOU. Welcome to the first of a regular feature on things that can be made-to-order, crafted, engineered and tailored by you, for you. Let us know your fav DIY outlets and we’ll check them out ourselves!

Custom Bedding from Inmod Design Studio

What’s more luxurious than snuggling into bedsheets that you yourself designed? We love how easy this design process is. 4 Steps: choose fabric, the embroidery pattern (modern, retro, pop-art, geometric and nature-inspired) then your base colour, then the embroidery colour. Et voila! Prices range from $125 to $900.

Sweet dreams.

 

White On

Dwelling | June 3rd, 2008 by Carrie McCarthy | Comments | Leave a comment

Your Home as a SanctuaryWhy I love white paint!

  • I feel stillness and quiet in my home
  • Everything looks great against a canvas of white
  • Rooms look gracious and hip
  • It is easy to carry paint from room to room on all the trim which saves time and money
  • My favorite white paint is Benjamin Moore Super White

This beautiful book  Your Home as a Sanctuary speaks of creating a oasis in your home which for me always involves white.

Carrie, Refined Treasure

 

Five Ways To Think The Clutter Out Of Your House

Dwelling | June 2nd, 2008 by Karryn Ransom | Comments | Leave a comment

It's All Too Much

I’ve just read this really useful book It’s All Too Much by Peter Walsh. I’ve always struggled with wanting less stuff around me, but working here and seeing how Carrie strips things to their essence makes me feel like I can breathe freely. I want that in my home. Having children seems like this is an impossible goal, but it’s not really about the stuff - it’s about the mindset. So here, five tips I gleaned from Peter’s book:

1. The Power of Now: Getting rid of something without fear of “one day I might need it” allows us to live freely in the present and allows space for our dreams to manifest.

2. Either you value something or you don’t: If something is truly important to you, honor it. My precious letters and cards that I’ve been saving weren’t being honored stuffed into a box under my bed. Not only is that unhealthy in terms of dust, but it’s no way to treat something that matters to me. So I made a collage of them, and had it professionally framed. Now, I see it everyday and I smile. Those beautiful words are front and center; just where they should be.

3. Cost: Clutter costs you in space obviously, money because you may buy duplicates, and time - spent looking for things. But most importantly, it costs you in energy. And that is perhaps the most precious resource.

4. Treasure Hunt to Yourself: Think of the de-cluttering process as an excavation instead of a purge. You’re cutting through layers of stuff and while you decide what to keep and what not to keep, you’ll learn about what’s truly important to you.

5. A Gift is Not an Obligation. Or rather, it shouldn’t be. I held on to things I didn’t like because they were received from people I DO like. But people are not things. Things are not people.

 
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