This post is written by Tricia Firmaniuk, my Senior Colour Designer who is also an artist, as you can tell by even the before photo of her recently re-done bathroom! It’s bold and colourful! Read on: I’m so excited to share my latest project with you because I am so… Continue Reading →
Style at Home I recently received such a good list of questions followed by photos that I decided to turn this readers entire email into a blog post that I think will help everyone, especially on the heels of my last post about clean vs. dirty colours. First, here’s the… Continue Reading →
If you’ve been following me on my Insta-stories on my Spain and Italy vacation, you might have noticed that I am fascinated with bathrooms. I mean, when you’re travelling, you’re not exactly hanging out in kitchens (unless you’re visiting friends and family) but there’s always a bathroom in the hotel… Continue Reading →
This was the house Kelly and her Husband Mike bought 2 1/2 years ago (above). Renovating the inside of the house was a much higher priority than painting the exterior so when they sold the house this Spring, it remained this colour combination. But inside the house experienced quite the… Continue Reading →
Today I’m showing you another bathroom in my design assistant Kelly Parkinson’s previous home that she transformed with just a coat of paint and a new shower curtain. Shower curtain similar here Kelly found this so happy, colourful shower curtain at HomeSense that also picks up the purple tones in… Continue Reading →
My design assistant Kelly Parkinson and her husband Mike bought this house two years ago around the same time she started working for us. They just bought a house that might become their forever home (pictures to come) and sold this house, so before they moved out, we styled it… Continue Reading →
Here is another room in Crystal’s house, I talked about this bathroom redesign two years ago when my friend Jan Romanuk designed the new layout. Want a timeless and classic bathroom? Here’s how you do it. This bathroom was previously way too big and looked like an afterthought, after all… Continue Reading →
I’m so excited to share the before and after photos of my wonderful client Crystal and her husband Rob who live in Promontory Hill in Chilliwack. We renovated and decorated the two top floors of her house over a year ago now, and the main floor will be published in… Continue Reading →
How to Refresh Your Bathroom Without Replacing the Tile: Before and After Want to know how to refresh your bathroom? If you have old tile that is staying, but you are replacing the countertop (whether you’re in a kitchen or bathroom), often the new countertop is chosen without taking the… Continue Reading →
10 Steps To Planning Your New Build In January and February we’re unusually busy in our eDesign department working on New Build packages because this is the time of year when planning begins for renovations or planning your new build. If you’re planning your new build, you should be aware that… Continue Reading →
My lovely client Deborah hired me to help her choose colours and finishes for her bathroom and kitchen renovation as well as decorate her house, early this year. I’ll show you more soon, but I’m starting with the reveal of her refreshed powder room: After (Photography by Barry Calhoun) Her existing bathroom… Continue Reading →
Since hurricane season has hit, I have received a few requests on the best, inexpensive, on-a-budget updates that will hopefully make both you and your insurance company happy. Here’s a comment I received from my lovely reader Donna on my new powder room reveal post: “Hello Maria, you spread so… Continue Reading →
When I started planning my bathroom renovations, what I kept in the back of my mind was this presentation by the Co-founder of Waterworks, Barbara Sallick which I posted about five years ago. Barbara says the best baths happen when you set out to create a total experience. You have… Continue Reading →
Lately I have been getting many emails from readers asking questions like this: Maria, what comes next??? If we are nearing the end of the gray and white “fresh” trend. What’s next!!??? I’m starting the process of updating a 1990 normal sized (1800sf) house – nothing touched since built in… Continue Reading →
The perfect bath starts with an inspiration starting point like this mirror. When Jan and I were business partners, we renovated a few kitchens together, so when I managed the renovation of my kitchen five years ago when we bought the house we’re in, I was comfortable, I felt like… Continue Reading →
Jan Romanuk and I were business partners years ago. If you are building or renovating a home (anywhere on the North Shore in Vancouver) and need a designer to choose everything or a project manager, she is the one. There’s very little that Jan doesn’t know about the world of renovations in… Continue Reading →
