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Hot Pink Front Door: Yay or Nay?

05/22/2013
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We received 481 possible front doors to choose from for my Free Choose a Colour for your Front Door Webinar this Friday. Irene curated them all for me and I added the colours! You’ll be interested to know that the big theme is orange!!  There are countless orange roofs and lots of orange brick out…

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How to Get Light to Play in a Room

03/05/2013
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Barbara Barry Interiors At the Design Bloggers Conference, this past week, Barbara Barry spoke and I love this quote: “You should paint a room 10 times lighter than the paint chip you are looking at, so the light can play in the room all day” I love that visual. And it also reinforces my post,…

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Maria’s New Laundry Room: Before & After

09/07/2012
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Our new house has three bathrooms, one in the master, the main bath which you’ve seen and the powder room. The one thing I did not like about the layout when we first saw it was that you had to walk through the laundry room to get to the powder room, but that was before…

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2012 Olympics: The Most Colourful Ever? Yay or Nay

08/05/2012
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Have you noticed how huge the exact shade of Honeysuckle pink from 2011 is at the London Olympics? source This is just one of the colourful logos. source Hot Pink and Red: Red is grounding and Hot Pink is Artistic: Great combinations for the Gymnastics competition! source The boring green turf has been ditched in…

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An Exception to Mixing Clean and Dirty Colour

11/15/2011
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Occasionally I come across an exception to mixing clean and dirty colours that actually works. Today I’m sharing one of those examples and why it works.  This is a cactus sculpture in the lobby at the Westin Lost Cabos where we are staying this week on a much needed vacation! How cute, right? An exception…

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New Drapes for My Mom’s Carriage House

11/08/2011
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Photos by Maria Killam My mom’s new drapes match the fall foliage outside! So pretty. Before Most living rooms really are so sad without drapery (unless it’s super contemporary of course). This room has three windows and even with all the colourful furniture and pink walls it was still lacking a feeling of warmth. Also the…

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Thanksgiving in the Country

10/09/2011
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We are here in Yarrow for Thanksgiving at my sister’s/mom’s farm. And I have a few pics from my mom’s carriage house to show you. My mom has a lot of hand painted rocks by one of her best friends. This one is at the front door. Markus and William September 30 was the day…

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My Mom’s Fresh Carriage House

09/08/2011
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source This is my mom’s carriage house being built on the two acres in Yarrow that she owns with my sister Elizabeth and her husband. Everything was on a strict budget. The roof is black just as it should be and the siding is white because my sister’s house is also white. I want the front…

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What Colour should you Paint the Closet?

05/26/2011
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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…

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When can you Ignore the Carpet Colour (if it’s bad)?

05/01/2011
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source I recently posted about an on-line consultation where my client had a very bossy carpet. In the main living areas of the house, you should try very hard not to ignore the wall-to-wall carpeting when decorating your home. So if your carpet clearly has a strong undertone of either green, pink or yellow beige,…

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This Paint Job is only Right Once a Year

03/27/2011
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source A broken clock is right twice a day.  This was the photo that Patrick from Shadows on Stone sent me the other day along with those 2 quotes. It’s a donut shop in Portland that looks pretty hot now with the matching cherry blossoms. He said it just screams in the winter and looks…

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The Best Pinks to Celebrate Valentine’s Day

02/14/2011
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Honeysuckle is Pantone’s colour of the year and if you have been dying to paint a room pink, here are some good ones to try: BM Razzle Dazzle (source) Just this past week, I specified this colour for a client’s powder room. I told her that last year I still would have toned this colour…

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5 ways to Balance Bold Colours

12/16/2010
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Interior Design by Eileen Kathryn Boyd via Lonny Magazine These tips come to you from Eileen Kathryn Boyd inside Lonny Magazine. I am a huge fan of Eileen’s work and loved her colour tips on balancing bold colours. And if you look at the photos I’m showing and the rest in the magazine, you’ll see…

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