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QUEENSLANDER CAROLINA: Well, this won’t make sense to you if you’ve never been to Australia, and you’ve only ever lived in the low country of the Carolinas. But it makes perfect sense to me! My favourite house design is Mediterranean, with a touch of Queenslander thrown in. It’s the floor-to-ceiling windows and engineering airflow throughout the dwelling. Spoken like a true air sign, Gemini me! I don’t believe in coincidences in colour palettes, art, curated collections, or furniture styles that attract my attention. I am salvaging an aesthetic from the past to make a statement in the present. You know what’s missing since the pandemic? Clever antique places to rummage for ideas. Artists have been struggling to find other ways to put their storytelling work out there. I am one of them. When your whole career has been about solving other people‘s problems, wayfinding design opportunities for yourself become an unsolvable challenge. Why is that? Skill set is there. Acute problem-solving skills are there. Critical thinking is ramped up to the ceiling. I am paying very close attention to recurring patterns. Unraveling inconsequentials has been my dominant skill set since I was born, no lie. But sometimes you do need an outside influencer to pull yourself out of the rêverie. Travel has always been my instigator!! #behousedesign #findinghome #StyleInfluencer

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April 21, 2025/by Tessa Wood

NATURAL INSPIRATION: Nature-inspired artisan-painted spaces bring the outdoors inside. I love this nod to European country life. When nature has a hand in anything, it turns out perfectly. I would bet money that the tree peeking around the door frame inspired this interior interpretation. This is what I deeply miss about artisan work and creating impact out of a blank wall. My whole art direction and design career has been about just that. This is food for thought as we lead up to Earth Day tomorrow. Why is it that we exclude nature from our interior design by closing it off with doors, windows, and that intimate conversation that a breeze can have with a space? I see a lot of cookie-cutter homes built without a connection to the environment around them. It’s just a box sitting on a lot without very much thought behind what will be viewed from the windows and the doors. Most of the new construction that’s going up in the area is static rows of houses with tiny windows, and little or no garden space to buffer the neighbours or nearby highways. This takes away from what makes a house a home. Country life is overrun by chemical farming, so there’s no clean, breathable air. This is why Europe owns me! Tomorrow’s Earth Day post will literally hit home. #behousedesign #findinghome #curatedinteriors #styleinfluencer

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