To our incredible clients, thank you for making the past year truly exceptional for us. Your trust, support, and shared passion for design have allowed us to create remarkable spaces. We worked on a number of projects ranging from furnishing and decor selections to kitchens remodels and architectural plan development.
Read MoreWhat a year for the Land Of Dochia magazine! Launched at the end of 2022 We’ve featured current and relevant articles on lifestyle, wellbeing, the joy of living, and how to do it all through creativity and design. Catch up on all the latest issues HERE, and we’re looking forward to having you subscribed and hooked in 2024! Catch up on all the latest issues HERE
Read MoreIn this years retrospective series we’ve put together a few articles that highlight some of the most liked, controversial, interacted with and informative articles from a variety of categories. The My2Cents blogs is a place for us to share knowledge, explore ideas outside of the interior design realm and delve into topics that fuel our creativity. We are so grateful to be able to share these article with our readers and hear the positive feedback.
Read MoreChristmas is the most famous ritual in the western world. Controversial in approach for many reasons, the ones that celebrate it agree on the importance of a specific decor to set the season's festive mood. Like any other ritual, the careful assembly of parts and steps is critical in achieving a successful rite and passage.
Read MoreNew York City, thank you! Our projects in US and Canada are getting attention! The many years of hard work and continuous learning, it’s humbling and rewarding to be in the spotlight! If you haven’t looked at our website in a while, this is the moment – access via link in BIO and subscribe to our vibrant monthly newsletter. No other adds! One good, design-and-positive-lifestyle-filled newsletter packing everything Land of Dochia is about! Come, visit, stay.
Read MoreOh, what a year! Named in the top 20 designers to watch for in 2023, Adriana has certainly stood up to the challenge. Selftropic™ design is getting traction as she’s working on several projects that apply this unique neuro-design tool to making environments that enhance wellbeing.
Read MoreDecorating the tree at Christmas is a joy to kids and a beautiful yearly ritual. Get in the holiday spirit and check out how we do it at my house and! Including the BLOOPERS for fun 😀, see how many you spot when watching the video!
Read MoreIn today’s fast-paced and often chaotic world, prioritizing our well-being and creating an environment that reflects our inner selves is more important than ever. We can always strive to elevate our lives through small daily rituals or significant life changes. We’re highlighting a few essential articles over the past year that highlight ways you can embrace your surroundings and cultivate good vibes.
Read MoreKid yourself not: keeping track of things is really 75% of your time. And if you don't do it right, it can take four times more than what it should. The result? Exhaustion, frustration and likely! Many bad or forgotten decisions.
Read MoreRed! The IT colour of this fall season. Not only for fashion, a pop of red painted walls, in furniture or accessories is an easy way to implement the trend in your home. For twist on the classic feature wall try instead a feature ceiling. Similar to what we’ve done here, opt for tone on tone neutral walls and go bold with the ceiling paint.
Read MoreWhen in 1946, the World Health Organization (WHO) appointed Mental Health as an actual discipline, it globally validated the field and closed the last loop on what human health is. That was two thousand years since Hippocrates linked psychological disorders to biological causes and broke the pre-existing belief that mental illnesses were fuelled by supernatural intervention. With that, the rest was history.
Read MoreThis is an ode to the Everyday, the normal day, the one that tends to get ignored, the one that you want past while you reach the special ones faster, that day, that ordinary one that fills most of your life, the one that should get the most attention but frequently it does not. ✨
Read MoreJust because fall is ramping up doesn’t mean it’s time to stop heading to the cottage! The intricate details and heirloom decor found throughput this Dochia designed cottage adds the perfect touch of nostalgia and coziness to this country home.
Read MoreWe’re choosing to embrace AI for the useful tool it is and have been producing conceptual inspiration images using AI with project specific, customized prompts that guide the design . The result is a tailored reference image to be used for further discussion and design development.
Read MoreNeuroscience tells us that as we do not use part of our brain synapses, certain areas atrophy. Our brains do the work themselves via a process called synapse pruning.
Read MoreSite visits are crucial to wrap up the final stages of the design process and the confirm any loose ends lingering at the project close out phase. We focus on elements such as confirming light fixture heights, furniture and decor placement and going through any lunch list items are a few of the tasks we tackle at a site visit.
Read MoreA growing collaboration - Perhaps a malice, perhaps a bliss, who is to say? It might as well be in the middle. Our love-hate relationship with technology. Recently, we started using AI not to generate ideas – of which we have plenty more than any AI – but rather, to express those ideas in a visual form, for clients to understand what we’re suggesting. Custom-designed inspirational images – now that, that is useful!
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 MoreThe latest issue of the Land of Dochia Magazine is out now! Check out our featured article on mental health, behind-the-scenes Design, and more!
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