Design Oracles explain planning for, shopping for or designing furniture for your home.  We discuss how to prioritize, where to spend, and how to plan for it.

The Design Oracles wax poetic about fabric and textiles from the history to them to the weave to the wear. 

A discussion of the importance of the correct amount of lighting in the right places at the right time in your home from daylight to dimmers!

The Design Oracles discuss how to help clients manage expectations in the custom home building or renovation process.  All can go smoothly if everyone knows what to expect!

The Design Oracles talk about what the various residential “codes” are, how each city and county adopts their own codes and writes their own ordinances.  We discuss why you should care, how they help and “hurt” us in design.  They cause necessary and unnecessary delays depending on who you ask. 

The Design Oracles discuss how useful experience in from your design team, your builder and your subs as you build a home or do a renovation but equally important is the experience of going through that process for the clients as well.  The expertise is valued as much as the experience of all.

The good, the bad, and the ugly...

The Building Edge creates first Impressions.

Amity and Dianne share their personal “three favorite patterns” from Pattern Language.

Establish enclosure, relate to the building, and provide definition.