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10 Steps For Planning a Timeless New Build

01/26/2018
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Are you building a new home? There’s a lot of decisions to be made and you may be wondering what you need to choose first. Here are 10 steps (and more importantly, the order of decisions) for planning your new build.  {source} In January and February we’re unusually busy in our eDesign department working on…

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3 Warning Signs that Your Client is Bossing You Around

01/08/2018
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Interior Design by Maria Killam This post has been percolating in my head for a long time. I have touched on this conversation in other posts but have finally been able to explain this dynamic better than ever, based on the insight I’ve gained watching all the Facebook conversations that happen on my private page…

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Get Twice as Fast at Choosing Paint Colours

11/23/2017
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers!! Here’s a new video where I’m sharing about my boards, I’m a newbie with these vidoes, so don’t judge me too harshly, but you certainly can if you want to, haha. When I was brand new at colour consulting, it took me a looooong time to specify just a…

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3 Surprising Reasons Your Colour Scheme Looks Dirty

11/03/2017
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Whenever I have introduced the concept of clean and dirty colours, without fail, someone raises an objection to the term “dirty”. They wonder why I don’t use a term that implies less of a value judgement like “muted” or “toned-down” or “complex”. I’ve been effectively teaching the difference in my Specify Colour with Confidence workshops…

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Joanna Gaines has Never Been to Your House

10/05/2017
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Today’s guest post is by Tricia Firmaniuk, my eDesign Director.  Tricia and I were talking about a thread on a forum where a designer was very concerned over a paint colour she had just specified for one of her clients when she started searching online and reading what others were saying about the same colour. Let…

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What’s Next After the Grey Trend?

08/28/2017
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Is the grey trend over? What colour trends are next? Knowing which colour is the next trendy neutral will not help you with your new build project or home renovation decisions. However, understanding how we are influenced by trends and how colour trend cycles work is design knowledge you can use. Lately I have been…

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Why I love this How to Decorate Podcast

07/09/2017
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So I’m an 80s child and lately we’ve discovered Apple Music for our iPhones. At Christmas, Terreeia and I treated ourselves to a new portable Bose stereo which, of course, are now wireless, and then we started creating Playlists on our phones. I created an 80s playlist which I listened to for a while in my…

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The Best Window Colour For Stone and Brick

06/23/2017
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Your window colour is one of the most important colour decisions you make, especially on a stone or brick home. And if you get it wrong, it can limit all the rest of your choices. Here’s which window colours work best with stone or brick for the prettiest home. This post is coming to you…

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What Everyone Should Know About Taupe

05/17/2017
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You asked for it and here it is! Drumroll….. a discussion of one of the most challenging neutral colour categories, taupe.  When Sherwin Williams named Poised Taupe as their colour of the year well that makes sense because it’s the most overused neutral at the moment. I wish I’d snapped a picture when I arrived at…

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