Pinterest I recently received this question from a reader and thought I would respond in a blog post: “Please could you share how on earth you find the time to do Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, your beautiful blog and website and do the amazing work you do. This is a genuine request as to what part…
Anytime I find myself standing in front of a bookshelf in someone’s home, I’m always fascinated by the titles that I see. It gives you insight into who that person is don’t you think? Well the library in the home of my friends in Toronto was wonderful and cozy and filled with lots of books…
If your house exterior is brick, Benjamin Moore Cloud White is NOT the right trim colour. But here are a few trim colours that do work well with a brick exterior. Photos by Maria Killam For the record, this is not the first post I’ve written about the best exterior trim colours NOT being Cloud…
What would it be like for you to have more confidence when specifying colour for walls, fabrics or finishes? You can learn something new in a course, but do you always walk away with the ability to apply what you’ve learned the next day? “I learned a lot in this course and I’m way…
I am staying in the home of artist Ian Varney while I’m here in Toronto (just completed facilitating one of my True Colour Expert Workshops this past week and I’m here until Wednesday). Here are some of his recent beautiful pieces: 40″ x 40″ Lake Geometry #1PinterestJust to keep it fun, I thought I would…
A designer emailed me the other day asking whether taking a few drops of red out of Muslin would give her the perfect colour she needed for a clients bathroom. It’s been so long since I tried to ‘tweak’ a paint colour for a client, I forgot that I used to think it was a…
Photo by Maria Killam I am in Toronto preparing for True Colour Expert Training at Designers Walk starting tomorrow! After my assistant and I got everything organized, we went out to find a patio and I found this sign (above), that I had to share with you sitting outside a variety store downtown on Dupont….
Interior Design by Suzanne Kasler Here in Vancouver, we have had 50 days of rain out of 60 in the past two months, everywhere you go, everyone is talking about it! So I’m wistfully looking outside at my patio and wondering when I’m ever going to get to sit outside for dinner! Interior Design by…
This weekend I am in Abbotsford helping my mom pack up the house I grew up in since I was 12, I’ll be 44 in just a little under 2 weeks–eeeeeek! I just packed up the photo albums and took a little trip down memory lane at the same time. When I came across a…
Okay this white closet I can handle (source) A few years ago, I was working with an interior designer, Jan Romanuk (my business partner at the time) on a renovation for a client and I was asked to choose the colours for the closets in the bedrooms. I specified a white thinking it would be…
pinterest I arrived home from my trip to Atlanta and New York and there was so much mail on the floor in my entry that I could barely-get-the-door-open. There was also a rather large box. From the Habitat for Humanity, who partnered with Lepage products in a contest to celebrate their 2000th home being built…
One of my lovely readers Susan Seale who writes the blog Make Me Musical, recently sent me this totally inspirational quote! Enjoy. Doesn’t she look creative? Pinterest “What nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish someone had told this to me . . . is that all of us who do…
source I have lost count of the number of times I have been hired to help a homeowner ‘correct’ a colour issue created by a designer who chose finishes without knowing how to combine the undertones of the colours and neutrals of the tiles or granite they had selected. This bathroom of one of my…
On Day 3 of Blogfest, we got a tour of the D&D Building in New York. One of my very favourite and talented designers, Eileen Kathryn Boyd was at Mottega presenting her new line of lamps. When I walked up to her and realized who she was I was so thrilled and flattered that she…
There were 6 ‘rooms’ designed by 6 wonderful and famous designers in a warehouse setting at the Mayo Studios last night. It was a celebration of Lee Jofa’s new Heritage Collection. This is what it looks like empty: We have been taken all over the city and wined and dined everywhere, it’s been quite the…
Photos by Maria Killam I have always imagined that being the Editor-in-Chief of a [any] shelter magazine would be the best job in the world. Travelling the world to see the most beautiful interiors, free merchandise flowing in the door in the hopes that you’ll feature it in the magazine. . . Yesterday, Blogfest started…
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