Creating a home environment that fosters motivation and courage is crucial for staying true to your passions and resolutions. As the new year unfolds, it's an opportune time to set the stage for positive change, reinforcing your commitment to what truly matters. Here's how you can design your living space to inspire determination and a sense of purpose.
Read MoreJanuary is Alzheimer's awareness month in Canada. Do you have a family member or someone living with Alzheimer's? Then you know that creating a safe, familiar home environment is crucial; supporting their independence is vital. Let's look at how to modify your home to be more Alzheimer-friendly.
Read MoreIntangible, fluid, still under the sun, torrential at times, water is the make of our minds, the power that drives our spirit. When we feel something, it often comes in fluid form, liquifying thoughts along the way, building up waves of emotion, pushing forward into each crevice of the mind.
Read MoreThe one question that we all ask – mostly of ourselves. Having it easy seems to always be of the past or some distant future. A distant future where we assume that after we perform many tribes and tribulations and do them properly, things will eventually pay off, and the easy time will come.
Read MoreIn a world where fields and context are as important as physical boundaries, the notion of skin as the limit of our bodies is obsolete.
Read MoreA modern home on a quiet Toronto street; living inside, one of the many kinds of regular families: two parents, two kids; life split between work, time together to listen and share, and the time apart to do the beautiful things we do for ourselves and our souls.
Read MoreAssertiveness and individuality are not to be reckoned with. In design, we see how secondary hues are combined in non-traditional ways. As we turn our attention more and more to who we are and what we genuinely like, we disentangle from norms set by others and find our own path.
Read MoreOpening the windows and allowing fresh air to come in periodically ensures the oxygenation of indoor air meets the higher demands of more people in the same space for a longer period of time.
Read MoreDesign and science are equally important
Reality is systemic, inter-connected, and ever-changing, and it does not take place in a vacuum. Design methods produce solutions that reflect that. They are environment-sensitive, bio-responsive and non- destructive to both the human subject and the environment. Science, in an unnatural way, validates everything through experimental isolation. Equally valuable truths stem from both approaches; science just had the stage for longer.
Almost any property can be converted, from a three-bedroom home to an entire apartment building. In France, the concept has taken on. Fully furnished apartments are provided with or without other amenities, while some options come with tailor-made services for tomorrow's digital nomads.
Read MoreHome-lovers and house-users are two kinds of homeowners that look at things very differently.
The home-lovers cherish their homes dearly; the house-users have a non-emotional go-about their day, move tomorrow if a better gig appears type of sentiments. There is nothing wrong with either; however, if you’re in the house-user camp, something is to be said about losing some opportunity here for a better self.
Read MoreDelve into the Selftropy manifesto, discover a dreamy hotel in Barcelona, explore the beneficent relationship between music and our minds and unearth so much more!
Read MoreDecember 2022 marks the month of our first digital magazine, Land of Dochia. Head over to get your does of all-in lifestyle gulp of design, tips and entertainment in a fun and non-conformist way... After all, if you know us... different is our middle name and innovation our motto.
Read MoreWhat is there to think about when you thought about "things" for more than half a century? What is there to buy when you bought all that you need? Where is there to travel when you've travelled everywhere. If you've gotten to the point where you've wondered about these, the answer is ... plenty. And if you think otherwise, your brain needs realignment.
Read MoreThrough SelftropyTM (the positive emotional bonding between a person and their surroundings), a Dochia- designed home nourishes the very essence of what makes us happy, fulfilled and ready to live an impeccable life.
Read More'In case of emergency, put your own mask first before helping others'. We're all too familiar with the over-scripted airline instruction, the ubiquitous mantra of distant travel.
Sometimes interpreted as a much deeper life lesson, you can easily understand how this advice can lend a better you, a you that can help more by just helping yourself first.
Read MoreIf you don't have time, you make time. Yes, it is that easy. We mistakenly think that time is something you have to get. Like there is a place where you go buy it. But think of how often we say that if we had the time we would do this and that and look at you now, during pandemic and as we're getting out of it. Think about, it, when does this ever happen? That life goes on hold and you have time handed to you without making an effort to make it? Never!
Read MoreWe typically think of school age as learning and all that follows, as something else. That ‘something else’ is the honing of more or less repetitive tasks that make up our lives. And as we increasingly enjoy the pleasure of getting better at them, we tend to spend less and less time acquiring new activities, new hobbies, new usable knowledge….
Read More"If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax. "
Christian Louboutin
This month we will look at which kind of travel triggers relaxation to a level where you can reap it's benefits long after you've returned home, at how cottage life, the home away from home, is food for a healthy mind and at how choosing a carrier that makes you happy and fills your day with tasks that you love doing adds golden years to your life by the bucket.
Read MoreWithout a doubt, the biggest power humans hold is their minds. In a world where authenticity is what is most valued, a world and a value that mankind created for mankind, in order for that world to successfully exist, it is required that mankind remains atop of the machine, even if only slightly…
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