It’s time for my annual round-up of the best posts of 2012:
1. What NOT to do with Your Kitchen Island Design
This post has a great example of what to do with a small, dinky island if you have one in your kitchen.
2. How Light Affects Paint Colour
If you’ve always wondered how colour changes with East/West/South/North exposure, this post spells it out.
3. Which Stone Colour is Best for Your Fireplace Surround?
If you’re thinking of installing the latest, trendy stacked stone, read this post first.
4. What Nobody Tells you About Publishing eBooks
Thinking about writing one to sell on your blog? Here’s some insider tips.
5. Quality Cabinets: Maria’s New White Kitchen
After all the advice I’ve given on having your dream kitchen over the years, this Summer I got mine. This post was the beginning. It’s not fully decorated yet which is why you haven’t seen the entire kitchen. Here’s what it looks like right now.
6 Ways to Choose the Perfect Neutral Paint Colour
There’s gold in this post if you can just find it.
7. How to Choose the Right Colour Wood Flooring
source (this was my newly renovated living room this summer)
This post has my best tips on how to determine which colour is right for your house.
8. My Sisters Fresh New Backsplash: Before & After
This summer, my sister took out her expensive but badly clashing tile and installed (big surprise) subway tile instead. Here’s the transformation.
9. Do’s & Don’ts on Decorating an Empty Room
Doesn’t matter how many ways I say it. Some people still think you should pick the wall colour first.
10. Is your Bath Perfect, or Perfectly Nice?
Best advice from the Vice President & Co-Founder of Waterworks! Don’t miss it.
I hope you are getting some time off between Christmas and New Years, I’m sitting in my new PJ’s right now about to watch some more Downton Abby!
Related posts:
The Best of Colour me Happy 2011
The Best of Colour me Happy 2010
The Best of Colour me Happy 2009
If you would like your home to fill you with happiness every time you walk in, contact me.
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Maria, Thank you for a year’s worth of great colour and inspiration!
Here’s wishing you all the very best in 2013~
Happy New Year!
Ivy
Ivy – I think you’ve just said it all. Cheers.
As usual Maria, another great blog post. It was great revisiting the post on bathrooms and kitchen islands especially. All the best in the New Year!
Thanks for summing things up so well! BTW, would you mind letting me know what the blue is in the living room picture under #6? So pretty! I absolutely adore that room – if only I could clone it for my upstairs family room (still haven’t figured that room out!).
Happy New Year! 🙂
Love! Love! Love! Looking forward to more of your colorful greatness in 2013! Thanks, Maria!
The fact that your in your Jammies watching Downton Abby, well that just makes me happy ! Best of the New Year to you !
Happy New Year, Maria! Thank you for sharing your talents with us all year long!
Happy New Year Maria! What a great round-up of posts and I loved seeing your home as you finished each area. Here’s to a wonderful 2013.
Happy New Year 2013 to you Maria! I hope you continue your happy path! xo
Thanks for the recap. I always enjoy re-reading your old posts. When I found your blog (in 2010) I went back and read ALL of your old posts.
I have bookmarked many of the “classics”.
Thanks for sharing all your knowledge!
I hope you have a wonderful 2013
Thanks Maggie! Maria
I’ve been trying for months to link to the “best wood floor color” post but have not been successful. As much as I would like to see pictures, can you post something that I can look up myself?
What do you mean post something you can look up yourself? Maria