We 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 MoreA staple activity of the Canadian lifestyle, the escape to the cottage sets the weekend entertainment tone of many Toronto families. 'Modest' and 'cozy' are the typical characteristics associated with the architecture, the interior, and the immediately surrounding landscape.
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 MoreDochia interior design which oversaw the interiors throughout the buildings have worked conversation areas into the lobby to encourage residents to linger…
Read MoreAlertness is the root of creativity! 💫 Check out the first episode here 👉 Ep. 1, Unboxing birthday jewelry
Let the things round you marvel and impress you, everything should be lived, nothing should pass you by as if you’re not there
Read More❤️✨ Half a century is not a number to reckon with. Better do something big with it! ☝️
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…
Read More"Sometime in the summer of 1986, after a lot of debating and obsessing over how I would like to spend my life, I made the decision to become an architect. I was fifteen years old." . . .✨ from the draft of An Impeccable lifestyle, my book! slated for publication this year ❤️
Read More"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us."
Boris Pasternak
Get out of your comfort zone is a motto that gets used a lot in the context of self-development and growth. It is in fact way more than that. It is life itself. This month at Dochia - take a look and let yourself be surprised! 💫
Read MoreIt’s quite the journey! And despite the slight setback and delays with the Transformation series, I’m so glad to see all the support and traffic on my new site. Thank you to all that have watched and shared and if you have not seen it yet check it out and subscribe! 👉 Welcome to my YouTUBE Channel \\ Adriana Mot interior design at large
Read MoreSee how to design your Muskoka rooms guest-ready for the summer crowd!
Read MoreIn antiquity, this beautiful colour was praised in the form of the Lapis Lazuli, a semi-precious stone with deep, dreamy blue tones. Egyptians believed it had the power to give you immortality and open the heart to love. They produced what it is believed to be the first blue dye dating back to over 6000 years ago and they are credited with the invention of the blue pigment eponymously called “Egyptian blue” or cuprorivaite. Need I say more? …
Read MoreIt may not seem like much, but all this thinking and pointing draws connections between intention and execution and makes sure you get what you actually think you get!
Read MoreSome of us have become online authors in search of closeness in a time of distancing. The blurred line between reality and virtual has gained definition by the sheer lack of real connection. We were so worried that the virtual would take over and impend on our realities that now you could say we live the nightmare that we so fearfully wanted to avoid.
But like all those things we don't have and wish we had, maybe this is exactly what was needed to make reality the undisputed queen again.
Read MoreWe are greatly honoured and excited to have our project selected for a feature in UK's Luxury living magazine Design et Al. The book will be available online and in print through our website later in the year. Stay tuned!
Read MoreOur homes are structures for both, individual and collective living
IF OUR HOMES WERE JUST ABOUT US, WE WOULD ALL BE LIVING IN A ONE-BEDROOM CONDO. THAT’S ALL ONE NEEDS: A NIGHTTIME SPACE, A DAYTIME SPACE, A PLACE TO PREPARE FOOD, AND A PLACE TO TAKE CARE OF HYGIENE. AND WE WOULD ALL LIVE BY OURSELVES.
Read MoreThank you Blog TO for featuring our project!
“A Mississauga home now on the market brings the outdoors inside with a ton of features, including four ponds and a pool with its own waterfall.”
Read MoreA new kind of casualness
What is casualness but the relaxed and unconcerned manner we inherently have without the filter of conventions and care of others?
Have you defined what this is for you? How are you most comfortably dressed? What’s your “thing”, that which does it for you, that which you indulge in that relaxes you? Is that a solo activity or one that you like sharing? Are there more?
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