Evelyn M

Four Degrees of Separation

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Evelyn M is an artist as well as an interior designer. She moved to Vancouver Island in 2005, settling between Campbell River and the Comox Valley. Her focus as an interior designer is to take the ideas of her clients to the next level, ensuring their needs are exceeded while staying within their budget. Evelyn also loves to write about her passions, and manages a Home and Garden blog and Facebook page for LocaLHomeSpot.com, a Campbell River Contractor Directory. Evelyn’s art is described as contemporary with a West coast flare; here at Island Woman her writing will cover topics on all aspects of design, Island style.

With my Interior Design life divided between working in homes within the Campbell River/Comox Valley regions during the day and writing about design around the world in the evenings, either for Chicago based Trendir or Campbell River based LocaLHomeSpot.com, I have a full and well rounded design exposure that sometimes leaves me shaking my head in wonder.

That head shaking disbelief at how lil ol’ me plays a part in the international world of Design was in full play the other week when a chain of events that centred around my writing lead to the connection between an architect in the United Kingdom and a furniture designer/maker in southern Quintana Roo in Mexico.

ITZ Mayan Wood Furniture

ITZ Mayan Wood Furniture
It all started back in January when I posted an article on ITZ Mayan Wood Furniture in my Design blog for LocaLHomeSpot.com. The team at ITZ creates their unique furniture from salvaged trees that fall during hurricanes and forest fires within the Mayan Jungle of southern Quintana Roo in Mexico. Feature woods used within the ITZ designs are Ziricote and Granadillo which are both classified as “precious woods” but since ITZ only uses certified dead wood or wood from licensed and accredited reforestation programs, the use of these exotic woods is a bonus, not a detriment. While they create many different designs, I featured my three favourites in an article entitled Evelyn M’s Top 3 ITZ Design Series made using Sustainable Tropical Woods.

As with each of my LocaLHomeSpot.com articles, whether Evelyn M’s Design Blog or Dax’s Dog Spot blogs, I did a lead-in through the LocaLHomeSpot.com Facebook page and then sent an email to ITZ furniture to let them know about my feature article on their designs. They loved it.

Snook Architects Historic Barn

Liverpool-based Snook Architects
Fast forward to January 31 when Trendir asked me to write an article on a renovated 16th century barn located in Yorkshire England. The barn was re-created by Snook Architects into a stunning example of how old world charm can meld so beautifully with modern day elements. The article for Trendir is called Historic Barn Reinvented into Modern Home with Exposed Trusses and is a tour through the home, starting with the exterior façade before moving indoors to the social and private zones. I love this barn-to-home conversion with its original patina’d brick façade, concrete floors and exposed trusses.

As with my Facebook lead-ins to my LocaLHomeSpot.com articles, I also do two or so lead-in posts to my Trendir articles every evening and on January 31, that was the case with this stunning renovation by Snook Architects. Aside from the Facebook lead-in to the article, I also contacted the architectural firm to let them know I had written an article for Trendir on their barn conversion and gave them a link to my Facebook page where they could click the link to my Trendir tour.

Snook Architects

Quintana Roo – Liverpool – Campbell River – Chicago
Snook Architects not only loved the article I had written about their work, but they also spent time perusing my EvelynM’s Design Blog through LocaLHomeSpot.com and came across the article I had written on ITZ. They were very impressed with ITZ’s environmental ethic as well as their design and craftsmanship, and contacted them to see about delivering pieces to the UK. I know all this because I had several emails back and forth with Snook Architects who credits me with the connection between them and ITZ. In fact, they think I might prove to be very expensive to them through all the international furniture I feature on my blog.  So you see, I am responsible for the four degrees of separation between Liverpool’s Snook Architects and Quintana Roo’s ITZ, with a little help from Chicago based Trendir – I’m still shaking my head.

 

Evelyn M, Associate of Interior Design
250-204-4417
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Evelyn M Interiors/Design House BC
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