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Giveaway; Document your Dream Vacation

12/17/2010
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Have you ever created your own picture book?  Well if you haven’t then post a comment below and follow my blog (you’ll find the follow section on my sidebar close to the top) and you just might win a $75 gift card to create your own photo book with Kodak!  If you have you can…

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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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How to get a Designer Living Room on a Budget

12/14/2010
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 Interior Design by Maria Killam, Photography by Anna Beaudry Recently I completed this interior for two newlyweds, a Doctor and a Lawyer. Janelle is just finishing her internship in medical school and next year she will be practicing medicine full time. She found my blog and hired me to help her choose colours and design…

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My Take on Pantone’s Colour of 2011: Honeysuckle

12/11/2010
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The news is out, Honeysuckle is Pantone’s colour of 2011.  Since I’ve been talking about Pink for a while now (and it’s the accent colour in my living room) it’s kind of cool that it’s officially a ‘colour of the year’. Pantone “In times of stress, we need something to lift our spirits. Honeysuckle is…

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2010 Christmas Tour of my House

12/09/2010
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I love decorating for Christmas, I think winter weather is so tolerable until December because of all the sparkly lights!  This first photo is my dining room (without any art yet).  What I love about the paint colour (BM Natural Linen) is that it really doesn’t change from day to evening (there are so many…

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Which Backsplash Tile Goes with Granite Countertops?

12/06/2010
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If you already have a granite countertop, you may be wondering what backsplash tile looks best? Most people instantly assume that the best backsplash to coordinate with a granite countertop is a tile with a pattern.  The problem? You won’t likely find another pattern that matches or coordinates with your granite, so here’s what you…

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The Seattle Sartorialist

12/05/2010
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It was a stunning day for Christmas Shopping in Seattle with my mom and sister today.  We went down to Pike Place Market for lunch and ended up on the wharf having a picnic on the bench, (my 1 year old nephew was with us). Photo by Maria Killam I saw these fabulous and happy…

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My Front Entry Christmas Vignette

12/03/2010
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We got the tree up on Sunday and then the rest of the week I’ve been scrambling to get some other spaces looking festive.  I don’t think I have enough rooms looking Christmassy yet but here is my wreath for the front door. This wreath is NOT do-it-yourself 🙂 It was purchased at a big…

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5 Recession-Proof Decorating Tips

12/01/2010
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For this months newsletter, I have researched the back issues of my favourite magazines to find you some creative and fun ways to perk up your space—and just in time for Christmas!  You can save them for January too as the living room will be looking lonely after the lights and glitter from the holiday…

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What Everyone Should Know about Fan Decks

11/24/2010
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Have you ever looked at a darker or lighter colour on a strip of colours from a fan deck and thought “That doesn’t look right’.  Well, you were probably correct.  To choose colours accurately, you need to rely on your colour trained eye (or your colour designer) to find a colour in the deck that…

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Creative Art for the Bathroom

11/18/2010
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source Today I was in a lovely client’s home out in White Rock.  She was upholstering an Edwardian Settee and matching chair and wanted to make sure she was on the right track with the colours and fabrics she had chosen.  And she needed wall colour for most of the house.  By the time I…

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Canned Colour Combinations; Why they don’t Work

11/16/2010
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In my colour consulting [in a paint store] days, customers would consistently come up to me (clutching one of the brochures with suggested colour combinations) and ask: “Can I alternate this colour chip with that one?” source   And the answer was usually, YES. Colour combinations on interior and exterior brochures in paint stores are…

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What is the Colour of Fun?

11/15/2010
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flickr At the CMG conference in 2010 we had a presentation called C20 where 20 colour professionals had one minute to present ‘What’s Next’.  My favourite was Mark Woodman’s question: A day at the beach (flickr) He said he noticed from just observing the world around him that the colour of fun is NEVER beige. And he…

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