Corey Klassen | Interior Designer

As we Vancouverites head into the Olympics next week, some of you are really getting into the spirit inside and outside your homes and workplaces. The city is being visually slaughtered by Olympic advertising, temporary venues, mascots, country flags, and each of us react in our own way. Some of us embrace it, some of [...]

I don’t know why it took me so long to see the amazing Tom Ford’s film A Single Man (novel by Christopher Isherwood), but when I did, it was the house that took my breath way (who cares that it’s being sold for $1.5M, I want it) and that it was complete metaphore for the [...]

There are so many ways to help when disaster strikes and the quickest and easiest way is to send money. It seems to be a knee-jerk reaction for all of us but it left me thinking about the hard work of re-building and who was going to do that in Haiti. I know that search [...]

You’ve heard about have seen the reaction videos on YouTube, but have you thought that designers react to association analysis of predictive consumer trends? I a reaction when I read the press release NKBA Reveals 2010 Kitchen & Bath Design Trends yesterday because I’m not sure if it’s based upon American, North American or trends on [...]

Ok, so you know when there is something wrong with the building industry when a concept home can’t be built for the 2010 International Building Show in Las Vegas, NA. I guess it’s too late to re-think the problem?
Builder’s Concept Home 2010: A Home for the New Economy
The concept home will be a virtual tour on the [...]

HONG KONG – I don’t know how I EVER let this post slip me by because it’s AWESOME!
Gary Chang, Architect and small space guru, has 24 spaces all within 344 sq. ft. in Hong Kong. Renovated in 2008, Chang has lived in the SAME seventh-floor apartment since he was fourteen, when he moved in with [...]

Yoga Journal – Earlier this week, domestic diva Martha Stewart taped an episode of The Martha Stewart Show, dedicated entirely to the practice of yoga. During the show, which airs tomorrow, her guest Trudie Styler, a famed yogi and wife of musician Sting, leads the audience of 51yogis though an empowering Warrior workout. There’s also [...]

Wall Street Journal – Jim Carlton writes that the green building movment is aming for a zero net energy use goal, and I agree that he’s right. Play the zero sum game by clicking the links in the article.
But a bigger shift toward net-zero construction faces hurdles, largely because such buildings often are more expensive [...]

Sometimes this city takes my breath away. Image taken this morning from Cambie St & Broadway St as the dawn kisses the North Shore mountians.
Today is day 9 of my 100 days of yoga and this is an apt reminder of how the universe works with you if you are open to receiving it. Last [...]

Winnipeg (MB) via CBC – Here’s a story that inspires me to do more, do better, give more and be better.
A frail, elderly Winnipeg woman narrowly avoided being stranded at a U.S. airport thanks to a stranger in shiny shoes who transformed into her guardian angel.
Elsie Clark’s return trip home from a holiday with [...]