With the winter season in full swing it’s important to make subtle changes to your space to embrace the current chilly weather. Here are our 4 top tips for creating the perfect cozy nook.
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People always did and always will want more than what they have, better things, more happiness, less pain and more pleasure. But in 2022 when the wounds of severed lifestyles are fresh in our minds as we have yet not healed, this will be the finest filter through which everything will be sifted.
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The thing about habits is that you can always build new ones. That's the beauty of it. Yet they are so hard to break. The attachments that we develop toward our own habits are some of the strongest we experience.
In our lives, habits often fill a time of waiting. Time you don't really know what to do with. They feast on such incertitude. And other times, they help you grab the day by the horns.
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Inundated by ideas and possibilities, our minds are now ripe with the excitement of change as opposed to the fear of it. Design only follows; in that it creates a time-capsule universe by giving all these important trends an aesthetic form and a visual framework.
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'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.
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There are many elements that make up a great interior: selecting the right materials for a cohesive and enticing palette or constructing a perfect detail by using a typical material in an unusual way.
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A wonderful and healthy 2022!
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RE-SHAPE YOUR LIFE from what you do, to where and how you live, to who you spend your time with. READ MORE….
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Ten minutes in the bathroom.
Fifteen to get the coffee going.
An hour to get ready altogether, with emails, showers, breakfast of champions, high heels, and makeup, then all covered by colour-coordinated mask.
It is said that in moments of crisis some fold and some flourish. I would say that we at Dochia have definitely flourished!!
From international awards and recognition to a 300% increase in our followers across all social platforms, from accolade development projects to luxurious residences, we’ve had a prolific and accomplished design year!
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“With the emergence of new and updated technologies to support the transformation in the industry, the concept of interior design has been redefined to inspire positivity. With this article, we are presenting 30 such interior designs who are constantly enriching the industry with their expert skills and ideas.” read more..
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What is personal? What is not? This past year has been challenging at drawing the line between the two and, made everything, even the bites that were not, personal.
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It is unimaginable to think of luxury and third-world poverty in the same brain space. Yet they have no problem coexisting together in the real world. Grouping things in certain buckets often tends to shed meaning otherwise invisible.
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Resolutions work for me! I suggest you try it out! In the first 49 years of my life, I kept none. As my 49th year started, I decided to make a few and guess what! it worked out.
started, I decided to make a few and guess what! it worked out.
Does that mean that I have not accomplished anything in the years past? Of course not. But out of the few reasonable and decent resolutions that I've proposed to myself last year, some have come to fruition in a nice and satisfying way. And that's enough.
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As the year ends, join me, and let’s revisit some of the best, most read, and most liked of My 2 cents on design blog posts of 2021!
I have to say I’m very proud of myself. It is not an easy feat to keep a weekly blog. It is hard work and frankly, without a passion for writing you will not succeed. Many thanks to Jessica that has taken on the hard task of helping with the uploads and without which there would’ve been way less posts for you to read!
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There is a lot to be said about the concoction of emotions that one feels when one feels grateful. Contentment, relaxation, happiness, pleasure. As much as we don't all know the mechanics of emotion and we never think of them as we experience them, what differentiates gratitude from other positive emotions is that more often than not, we can pinpoint the source of it with extreme preciseness.
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Health above all else is what shaped pretty much everything this past year.
As much as this is a fact at any point in life for anyone and in every century, this year we've been globally reminded of our own mortality. The solidarity that ensued, even with its systemic flaws here and there, stood proof of humanity's power to direct itself as species. Independent of you agreeing or not with local policies, the psychological impact that this global lifestyle catastrophe has generated has touched and will continue to touch all aspects of life.
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Read about our winning entry in the BLT Awards 👉 This renovation curates through design a balanced personal space expressed through movement and cinematic perception. In an era where private space is important, this home was created to allow for family gatherings as much as for discreet separation in a manner that is mindful of how the building occupies its site. Read more HERE and register for the live ceremony this Saturday, 13th of October 2021
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Breaking news!! I am thrilled to share that Dochia interior design has won an Honourable Mention in the first ever BLT Awards programme! Details soon to follow!
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