Dear Fellow Designers: High-end.  Boutique.  Prestigious.  Elite.  World-Class. All lovely, evocative words, but when you describe your own body of work in this way I can’t help but feel incredibly nauseated.  This ain’t radiating and stating the facts, jack.  It’s pretentious and solicitous; a shame really, since your work is so often emblematic of contemplative [...]

I’m talking about baseboards. Cheap, white baseboards, specifically. So if yours look like this: For the love of God, DON’T highlight them as though they’re some sort of architectural feature. When they’re this, ahem, dainty they look like racing stripes. And not the sexy kind. Oh, and stock up on these. No matter what colour [...]