For once this blog is not about house renovations or improvements. It is about celebrating the wonderful relationships that are created during those processes . As you can imagine most of the renovation projects last a few months. Sometimes I meet my clients before they even buy a house, then we work very closely during [...]

One of my favourite boots at the Milan Design & Furniture Trade Show is Lago’s. (have a look here for a few pictures of last year) Lago is a young new company that creates beautiful but also surprising objects and pieces of furniture to enhance a new and more inspiring way of living. A great [...]

Choosing the right table and chairs is quite a difficult thing to do. In fact it is one of the most common question my clients ask me during or after the renovation. Here are a few the tables and chairs I liked the most at the latest Milan Design & Furniture trade show. Hope you [...]

Volumes don’t have to be full and it’s interesting to see how volumes can be created through empty spaces and grids. Here are some interesting examples. A lamp in the Lema boot Coffee tables from Desalto Cradle by Benjamin Hubert for Moroso T An interesting sink from Lago … note the white grouting to create [...]

There are some colours that struck me every time I go to the Milan Design & Furniture Trade show. Last year they were mustard yellow (I colour I thought I didn’t like before I saw it in this new perspective), turquoise and a very bright and energising red. This year I noticed green in all [...]

I have a special devotion to beautiful light fixtures. I really believe that they can make all the difference both functionally (I personally suffer in a house that is not well illuminated) and aesthetically.  As I already wrote before, I deeply believe that you cannot ‘cheat’ on lamps. There are plenty of products where the [...]

This year the Salone del Mobile had also Euroluce 2013, the trade show for light. What a delight! There has been a tendency lately to cluster light and create interesting volumes, as well as shadows and light effects. Here are some examples of beautiful compositions.   Wooden lamps with a Scandinavian feeling by Finnish Secto [...]

In the previous blog I described the one-floor renovation of a typical Brussels house. That renovation started with the intention of giving a new look (…not just a facelift though, as we renovated way beyond the surface layers) and making the whole floor more beautiful and functional. So we had to insert new bathrooms and [...]

In a home one extra bathroom can make a big difference: having two colourful small bathrooms was one of the reason this renovation started. The house, a typical Brussels town house, had not been renovated when my clients bought it. After a few years they decided that it was time to renovate properly the top [...]

Creating white interiors is subtler than you probably think. In these pictures you can see more details about the apartment I described in my previous blog and realise that white can come in many different shades. Choosing the ones you like is often more difficult than choosing stronger colours! What we wanted here was to [...]