Best Loved Posts of 2024

Thank you for being here. It’s so much fun to have you here to share with and keep the conversation going! I wish you and yours the Merriest Holiday Season and all the very best in the New Year! 🌟

Didn’t 2024 go by crazy fast? Can you believe I installed my garden this past Spring? One of my favourite new additions is the matching columns and gate, here they are with bows for the holidays!

Here on the blog we really dug down on how to create a timeless home and avoid the pitfalls of the black and white trend. I know, I’ve been on about this for awhile, but going all in on black has officially reached it’s expiry date. And I’m looking forward to helping you navigate all the colour and warm neutrals that are coming up fast for 2025!

Here’s a round up of some of the top posts from 2024!

9 | The Style of your Home > Your Design Style

An easy mistake to make when renovating is to over impose your personal style on a home that isn’t your style. There are many reasons you might purchase a home that isn’t your style – what’s available in your ideal location for your ideal price point is often not your dream house. Read on for more on this all too relatable situation.

8 | Read This Before you Cut your Paint by 50%

I promise, there are enough colours in the fan deck that you don’t have to do this 💛 In my years working at Benjamin Moore and decades as a True Colour Expert, I have concluded that people love to do this because they don’t know how to choose the right colour in the first place. Read on to find out why tinting your paint colour is a bad idea. 

7 | A Tour of the Black Accents in my Home

When I warn people of the perils of black, everyone immediately assumes I must flatly dislike black. So why should they listen to someone who clearly has a bias against the darkest colour on the planet? Well it’s the overuse of black I’m cautioning against. So I thought I’d walk you through all the black accents in my house. Read on to see how I use black.

6 | From Grey Walls to Happy Colour

After creating all kinds of love and happiness decorating five suites at Wilma’s Transition house (note: you can see all the before and after episodes over on my YouTube channel), we had just a couple days to address the bleak, institutional feel of the battleship grey hallway and common area. Read more about my heart project of 2024 here.

5 | Home Sweet Home: All my Homes, Before and After Social Media

Before the era of social media, our living spaces were personal, tangible reflections of our lives, untouched by the ever-scrolling feed of digital validation. Now, I’m grateful to use my home as a learning tool, sharing its and transformation with the help of social media. Read this post to see all the homes that have sheltered my journey 💛

4 | Ready to Renovate Your Black & White Bathroom?

Mark it in your calendars! 2024 is officially the year people started renovating their black and white bathrooms back to earthy and beige. The trend has us so fatigued with high contrast black and white that even perfectly timeless black and white bathrooms are on the chopping block. Read the post here.

3| 5 Colourful Palettes for a Condo Complex

Transforming exteriors with elevated, bold hues that stand out against the common, predictable neutral schemes is one of my favourite colour projects! And this multi-unit housing complex was no exception… So I came up with 5 colour palettes to take this condo from meh to magnificent! See them all here. 

2| My Enchanted Greenhouse and Garden

If 2023 was about updates to the interior of our new house, 2024 was all about the garden. It really started to come together when the greenhouse and kitchen garden went in! Take a look at some beautiful beginnings here. 

1| Why Timeless Homes are Rare

A big highlight of 2024 was my visit with fellow promoter of the timeless aesthetic architect Brent Hull. Read about our conversation on what it takes to create a truly timeless home here. 

2025 is YOUR Year!