Before you enter, take a moment to think of one thing you’d like to leave behind and exclude from this space. When you have it, infuse it into your belonging (a coat, a scarf, a bag). And let it hold the weight for now. Before you is a threshold, and when you cross it, the spell is cast.

Nicky Haslam, a prolific UK interior designer and socialite, has a plastic bird scarer from B&Q (think Home Depot) that he spray-painted white. Most people who see it in his home assume it’s an 18th-century porcelain statue.

I am very interested right now in using the 3D to make behaviour change. Aka, rather than introducing frameworks, meditations, or new ways of thinking, I’m much more interested in what I can move in the three-dimensional, tactile, and earth element to initiate change. Avoiding mental discipline altogether.

I visited my dear friend Pini’s 4th floor flat in Berlin, where I undertook a gardening development project of her balcony. Using my development strategy of 80/10/10 (see my last post for reference), here’s how it went down . . .

I’m obsessed with betterment: personal, professional, spatial, relational – you name it, I’m into it. I have found with friends, family and clients that when they ask for my help, they see their project as half-baked; sitting at 50%.

To end my 5 week stint in Europe, my friend Kristin Borlinghaus took me for German dumplings. It was my final night in Berlin, so I loved the idea of celebrating with something very German. Also in honour of my last name, I jumped at the opportunity to delight in ancestral food.

I have a VERY strong design philosophy when it comes to architecture. I believe THE MOST EFFECTIVE interiors represent and authentically embody the surrounding landscape. And by “effective,” I mean resonant, grounding, supportive, and inspiring.