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03/17/2026

Sometimes design magazines accidentally tell the truth about the moment we’re living in.

Not about decorating. About culture.

I was flipping through House & Home Canada when this line stopped me:

“There’s a renewed interest in spirituality as a backlash against the dominance of technology.”

The article was about design trends for 2026.

Dark hues.
Velvet.
Linen.
Wood.
Stone.
Deep browns.

Rooms that feel warm. Grounded. Textured.

But the more I sat with it, the more it felt like this wasn’t really about decorating.

It’s about how the world feels right now.

AI everywhere. Algorithms shaping what we see. News we’re no longer sure is real. Climate anxiety. Economic uncertainty.

It’s a strange moment to be alive. And a lot for a human nervous system to hold.

So something interesting is happening.

While the world outside our doors is getting faster, more digital, more abstract… our homes are slowly moving in the opposite direction.

Wood.
Linen.
Stone.
Brown.

Materials with weight. Things you can touch. Things that feel real.

Maybe design trends aren’t really trends. Maybe they’re signals.

Maybe they’re the quiet ways we try to steady ourselves when the ground starts to feel like it’s moving.

I wrote a longer essay about this idea — and why the return of brown might say something deeper about our cultural moment.

“When the Future Turns Brown.”

You can read the full essay through the link in my bio.

03/10/2026

Morning light at the kitchen sink.

A mug in warm water.
The house still quiet before the day begins.

These small moments are the ones I’m always drawn to when thinking about spaces — the quiet rituals that rooms hold without announcing themselves.

Design, for me, has always been about noticing those moments.

Lately I realized the same attention has been shaping my writing.

I’ve been writing essays about the interior life — the quieter seasons of faith, endurance, and ordinary days that repeat in the same rooms.

I finally gathered them in one place.

I started a Substack.

If you enjoy thoughtful spaces and slow, reflective writing, you might like it too.

Link in profile.

02/27/2026

Some spaces don’t try to improve you.
They just hold the truth of where you are.

Old walls don’t rush their peeling paint.
Stone steps don’t apologize for being worn down by years of use. They carry their age honestly.

But people rarely give themselves that same permission.

We try to renovate ourselves constantly.
Smooth the rough edges. Become a newer version before we’ve even lived inside the current one.

Lately I’ve been thinking about compassion less as fixing, and more as allowing something to remain unfinished.

Not every surface needs to be restored immediately.
Some things simply need to be lived with long enough to understand what they are becoming.

I wrote more about this on Substack this week.
It lives in the quieter corner of my work .o.nica

02/18/2026

Before we fix anything, sometimes we’re invited to tell the truth.

Today feels like that kind of day.

Ash Wednesday has always felt less like a beginning
and more like a quiet return to what is already real, already fragile, already held.

Not a dramatic reset, a spiritual performance - just an honest pause.

I wrote a longer reflection for today - something gentle to read slowly if you’re craving a little stillness.

You can find it through the link in my bio - just click the Blog page.

ashwednesday

02/02/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about tables lately. Not the furniture kind. Not as décor. More like… a way of being.

A table doesn’t rush you.
It doesn’t ask you to show up clear or impressive or put together.
You just sit. You eat. You stay as long as you can.

And honestly, the older I get, the more I’m drawn to spaces like that.

Homes that feel lived in, not styled. Rooms that don’t ask anything from you. Design that knows when to be quiet.

I think that’s why slowness matters to me so much now.
Not because life got easier - but because it didn’t.

If this way of thinking resonates, I talk more about it - about slowness, faith, and life at human speed, over on .o.nica.

No pressure.Just a doorway.

01/30/2026

January doesn’t really end all at once.

It lingers in the corners - in unfinished rooms, half-moved furniture, ideas we meant to return to,
and the feeling that we’re not quite done yet.

In interior design, I’ve learned this over and over:
we don’t reset a space by clearing everything out.
We move forward by noticing what stays,what still matters, what needs to come with us into what’s next.

Tomorrow, I’m sending a short end-of-month letter -
not about design tips, but about crossing from January into February without pretending we’re more finished than we are.

If you’re someone who prefers continuity over reset,
you might like it.

You can receive the letter through the link in my bio .o.nica .

No rush, no rebrand, just a gentler way of moving forward.

(From the work- former interior designer. Still paying attention to how we live).
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01/19/2026

January makes us believe we should already know.

Know what we’re doing.
Know where we’re going.
Know how to make this year “count.”

But real spaces don’t work like that.

You don’t walk into a room and immediately understand it.
You live in it.
You notice where the light falls.
You move things slowly.

Good design is rarely about the big decision.
It’s about staying long enough to listen.

January doesn’t need to be a hallway.
It can be a room.

One you’re allowed to sit in for a while.

Save this if you need permission to slow your eye and your expectations.

If you’re sitting with January instead of rushing through it,
I share more everyday noticing over on .o.nica.

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