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03/11/2026

She found out standing in the finished room.

The window didn’t open. It was never going to.

Two letters on the window schedule said so the whole time. FW. Fixed window. The plans got signed, the window got made, it got installed, and nobody read across that one row.

Swapping it for one that opens cost $18,000.

Nobody was hiding it. It was just sitting in a table that looks like admin until you know how to read it.

Swipe through to see the row that cost her.

This is exactly why I wrote How to Read Your House Plans, Beginners Edition. Plain words, one idea per page, and a made up sample house to practise on, with every sheet labelled number by number. It’s $27, compared to $18,000.

Comment PLANS and I’ll send you the link ✨

21/10/2026

Does it earn its place within the space?
I loved this question from Jodie.
Because when we start putting together a lighting plan, it can be easy to think of every lighting requirement as needing another fitting.
One for task lighting.
One for ambient light.
Another for accent.
But as Jodie explained during Light in Context, one fitting can potentially do more than one job.
The question becomes less about how many lights we can put into a room and more about understanding what each fitting is actually doing.
What does it illuminate?
How does it make the room feel?
Does it provide the light you actually need?
And ultimately, does it earn its place?
I think that is such a good lens for looking at a lighting plan before adding another fitting simply because there is space for one.
Save this for when you’re working through your lighting plan.

19/10/2026

No words to be featured to in fashion driven magazine all the way over in LA 🥹

16/10/2026

One small laundry detail that could save you thousands in water damage! 👇

Before your plumbing rough-in, ask your builder about including a floor waste in your laundry.

Because if your washing machine hose bursts at 2am, the last thing you want is water spreading into the hallway and adjoining rooms.

But here’s the important part. It’s not just about adding a drain. The floor needs to be designed to direct water towards it, with the appropriate waterproofing and detailing.

It’s one of those things worth discussing BEFORE construction, rather than wishing you’d considered it afterwards.

And the cost? It depends on your design, but it’s worth getting a price while everything is still being planned.

Follow Jenn Sinclair | Build Advisor for Women and Jenn Sinclair | Build Advisor for Women for more building tips, the little details worth checking and the questions to ask BEFORE they build it.

Save this for your next meeting with your builder, and send it to a woman who’s building!

16/10/2026

Building as a woman: 10 things you wish you knew earlier 👇

1. You’ll be asked to make decisions about things you didn’t even know were decisions.

2. “We need to know today” usually means the decision probably needed to be made weeks ago.

3. If something doesn’t feel right, ASK. You don’t need to know the answer before you’re allowed to question it.

4. Something being shown on your drawings doesn’t necessarily mean every detail of it has actually been resolved.

5. There are hundreds of decisions between what’s drawn on the page and what actually gets built.

6. If a decision hasn’t been made when construction reaches it, someone will eventually need to make that decision so the build can keep moving.

7. You’re allowed to ask WHY something is being done a certain way. That doesn’t make you difficult.

8. The decisions that seem tiny can have a huge impact on how your finished home actually looks and functions.

9. Knowing WHAT needs deciding is only half of it.
Knowing WHEN it needs deciding can save you so much stress.

10. You don’t need to become a builder, architect or construction expert. But understanding enough of the process to ask the right questions can completely change your experience of building.

If you’re building or renovating and constantly wondering, “Was I supposed to know this?” this account is for you.

Follow Jenn Sinclair | Build Advisor for Women . I’m sharing what to ask, what to check, what needs deciding and WHEN, so you can feel more confident navigating your own build.

And send this to a woman you know who’s building. She might need it. 🤍

14/10/2026

One of my biggest takeaways from our Light in Context evening with from was how much she thinks about where light is coming from, not just which fittings are being used.

Ceiling level.
Eye level.
Low level.

Because when every light source is coming from the ceiling, the room can start to feel flat.

Walking through Zoei with Jodie and actually seeing those different layers working together made this make so much sense.

The fireplace is such a simple example. That softer light down low does something completely different to another light coming from above.

It’s not necessarily something you consciously notice when you walk into a room.

You just notice that the room feels good.

Save this one before you finalise your lighting plan.

10/10/2026

Shop the About Space x Jenn Sinclair | Build Advisor for Women Sale Edit, featuring favourites from zoei_bycomma, alongside a selection of other top sale picks curated by Jenn.

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09/10/2026

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT ...... is having a STOREWIDE SALE!

You can spend thousands getting your interiors right, but the wrong lighting can undo so much of that good design. So with About Space's sale happening, I've gone through their collection and curated a little edit of pieces I'd genuinely consider specifying in my own projects.

From sculptural statement pieces to beautifully understated fittings, these are the ones that caught my designer's eye.

Send this to someone you know who's currently choosing their lights!

07/10/2026

Lighting is one of those parts of a build that can very quickly become a shopping exercise.

We need pendants here. Wall lights there. Downlights through here.

But our Light in Context evening with Jodie really reinforced for me that the better place to start is how you actually live in the house.

What happens in each room?
What are you doing there at 7am versus 9pm?
Where are you sitting? What are you looking at? What needs proper task lighting? What materials or architectural moments do you want to bring forward?

Then you can start talking about what kind of light will actually support those things.
And only then does the fitting come into it.

A really considered lighting plan is almost an extension of the interior brief.
You’re not designing a collection of lights. You’re designing how the house is experienced after dark.

That’s a very different starting point.

And probably my favourite takeaway from Light in Context with from .

04/10/2026

There is a difference between reducing cost and removing something without understanding what it was doing.

Danica spoke about a project where automated external screens had been designed to a west facing part of the house to manage heat.

During the cost reduction process, the screens were removed. On paper, that is a line item gone.
In the finished house, it changed how that room performed every summer.

And I think this is where good value management needs to go further than asking:
What can we take out?

The better question is:
What was this element doing, and if we remove it, what changes?

Sometimes the answer will still be to remove it.
Sometimes there is a simpler way to achieve the same intent.
And sometimes the thing that looks expendable on the cost plan is actually doing far more work than its line item suggests.

That conversation is where design intent gets protected.

Follow along for more of Danica’s insights and the things you only really learn after years of seeing projects through from drawings to built homes.

**Danica draws on examples throughout this conversation from across her 12+ years in high-end residential architecture, including projects undertaken during her previous role at McKimm prior to establishing Studio Garizio.**

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