It's All Perspective Taylor Reiko

Let me paint you a picture..you’ve just finished scrolling on Instagram/Pinterest and you’re feeling empowered to renovate one of the rooms in your home. You’re excited about this transformation and tell yourself that you would like to go about this independently (no designer or builder). But as you start the process of mapping out what material you want to who you want making the installation, you quickly realize that budget is a major topic that influences your decision making. You tell you...

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...

When I was away in LA I was lucky enough to have access to the Roosevelt Hotel’s newly renovated Johnny Grant Apartment where everything from Vogue photoshoots to Oscar parties have been hosted there at some point in time. If you’re a modern day design finatic, like myself, you probably get most of your design inspiration from sources online. I’m talking about instagram, pinterest and tiktok but let’s not forget that this is just one lens. It’s tough to really get into the nitty gritty of the...

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...

Join Taylor as she helps prepare you for your most ambitious home improvement endeavour to renovate the heart of your home, your kitchen. But this is no ordinary kitchen renovation podcast, on no, (what is classified as an ordinary kitchen renovation podcast? she doesn't know..). Listen in as Taylor goes through her personal list of what she looks for in a kitchen renovation. All details that should be considered at one point or another. Not material matching, all logistics. If you've been th...

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 ...