It's All Perspective

Happy New Year, creatives! ✨ In today’s episode, we’re talking about something that quietly makes a living room feel… off and it’s not your furniture or your rug. It’s focal points. From TVs in front of windows to fireplaces on the “wrong” wall, or oversized art floating in an empty space, small layout decisions can really shift the energy of a room. I’m breaking down the common mistakes I see all the time, sharing why scale, placement, and grounding matter, and giving a few simple ways to ma...

Pantone dropped their Color of the Year and wow. The reactions? Chaotic. Dramatic. Honestly… kinda hilarious. Some people are obsessed, most people are big mad, and a blend of the two... have thoughts. In this episode of It’s All Perspective, we’re unpacking why this unexpected shade is causing such a stir, what Pantone might’ve been going for, and whether there are actually any cute, redeeming qualities hiding in there somewhere. I’m breaking down the pros, the cons, and yes...I might say a ...

Mornings can be tough, for all kinds of reasons. Maybe it’s the struggle of getting out of bed, the overwhelming to-do list, or that quiet (sometimes loud) anxiety about what the day might bring. For me, the hardest part about mornings, especially Mondays, is never quite knowing how I’m going to feel when I wake up. Some days I’m fine, others I’m spiraling before I’ve even brushed my teeth. So, I did what any overthinking, slightly-existential, non caffeinated human would do: I created a morn...

For a long time, I convinced myself that structure was the key to avoiding a psychological breakdown. Like many of us, I found comfort in routine..it gave me a sense of control, of safety. But as I got older, I noticed something shift. My definition of structure started to blur with my work, and eventually, I began to equate the two. That worked… until it didn’t. In this episode, I’m opening up about the journey of untangling structure from identity, and what it means to seek stability withou...

Not all emotions are light and happy. Some are heavy. Some sit in your chest in a way that’s… inconvenient. Today, I’m talking about two of those: envy and jealousy. They seem like twins on the outside, but inside? I think they’re night and day, still related but more like distant cousins. And the more I thought about them, the more memories surfaced. Times I felt it. Times it changed me. Times it actually helped me. So I started wondering: why are we so quick to suppress these emotions? Why ...

How often do you ask for advice before doing something? There was a time in my life when I felt the need to ask everyone I crossed paths with for their opinion. Even worse, I questioned no one's feedback. This led to a lot of mental turmoil. Since then, I've decided to revisit this peculiar societal habit of being swayed by others' opinions. So, join me as we explore and debunk this together. New episodes every Thursday on Spotify + Apply Podcasts Video on Youtube IG: @taylorreikodesign PODC...

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But-Why-Design? (a phrase coined by Taylor): The elements of a space that are categorized as aesthetic "nice-to-haves," and therefore, are not as highly prioritized or are ruled out early on in the design process due to concerns about how far a project’s budget can stretch. What I’ve found as a designer is that this is one common way we close ourselves off from all the potential our space can bring. This is what I call the "design scarcity effect," and I won’t let it influence pre-design thin...

It’s Saturday morning. I flutter my eyes open at 8 a.m., expecting to see a blue sky and hear nothing but birds chirping in the distance. Instead, my thoughts are interrupted by the sound of water dripping from the corner of my apartment. Yes, I had a leak.. and it couldn’t have come at a worse time. But here’s the thing: it’s true what they say, we don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. In my case, what was gone was the warm, cozy, and comfortable space I had always considered home. ...

Today, join Taylor in a tranformative, slightly traumatic and borderline dramatic tale of the time she got robbed by a member of the building team during her family’s home renovation in the early 2000s. Fortunately, this very early on experience didn’t go without any gain as this planted a seed. She learned the hard way, that unfortunately we can’t trust everything we hear especially when we are granting someone complete access to some of the most personal corners of our home. Even if they co...

After coming out of the very cold, and rainy on and off again season of Vancouver's Temperate Rainforest winter months, Taylor's inspired to talk about not design (for once..), but her feelings. More specifically happiness, what is it? And debunk some theories and maybe even share some recent events that occurred that might of started the brainstorming process of this episode in the first place. Why is it that sometimes the most minor inconvenience take us out of the present moment of experie...

The holidays can be stressful and some might even say it’s contradicting that the most wonderful time of the year could potentially be the most overwhelming. Ontop of the craziness that are the first 2 weeks getting back into the swing of things. Taylor has come the the conslusion that what made the process feel overload is the constant stimulation that takes us out of our present moment. Everything from “what should I bring to that dinner party?” and “I think it takes around 4 hours to bake ...

In this episode I got sick and you can hear it..as someone who gets a cold once a year I couldn’t help but try and backtrack my last few months and unfortunately I came to the conclusion that I had severely overloaded my schedule, did not honour the basic human need of having lunch at a reasonable time that was earlier that 4pm and I stopped asking myself a fundamental question to what I think makes life fulfilling, “what do you want to do for yourself today?” From the moment we are put on th...