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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…

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…

How to Create Drama with a Tiny Bunch of Flowers

11/26/2010

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When I was in Portland a few weeks ago I bought the tall Mercury glass vase at West Elm. Then last week I found the short one at HomeSense. Photos by Maria Killam Now that I have such a dramatic sofa table (which is the first thing you see when you walk into my…

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…

Bright Colour needs a Healthy Dose of White

11/20/2010

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My readers are the best! I have been emailing back and forth with Stu Stiller for a long time now. He was kind enough to send me a quote about men and their love of wood to include in this post on Open Letter to my Lover on Decorating. Yesterday he sent me a link…

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…

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…

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…

What’s Next in Colour & Design for 2011

11/13/2010

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All the Colour Professionals that gather at each CMG Conference arrive with their NOW Colours (colours they are using in their industry currently) and NEXT Colours (colours that clients are beginning to ask for that will be happening next). Photo by Maria Killam I arrived in Portland with time to spend walking around and taking…

Cheap Placeholder Art (plus my Dining Chairs are done!)

11/10/2010

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I have a confession. I am so tired of looking at my empty walls and (as you know) the perfect piece of art takes time to find so when I was making my weekly rounds at Homesense last week I came across this one for $140 (marked down from $299). Well how could I resist?…

6 Rules for Painting Trim; Light or Dark

11/09/2010

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Everyone that has read my ‘The best Trim Colours—NOT Cloud White’ post is convinced that I think it’s a bad white, but that is simply not true. To recap that post, trim colours should be chosen based on the ‘fixed’ white in your home. So if your kitchen cabinets (for example) are anywhere from white,…

A Bad Day in the Life of a Colour Designer

11/08/2010

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I was in the best group today at the CMG Conference (here in Portland) talking about which colours will be NEXT. I’ll post more later but I had dinner tonight with Stephanie Fehrle who is the creative director in charge of a team of 9 for a company that designs gift bags for all the…

Road Trip to Portland

11/05/2010

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flickr Well I’m off tomorrow morning bright and early to the CMG Conference in Portland this weekend. I’m going to drive (I love a road trip) it’s only about 5 hours from Vancouver. I’m stopping in Seattle for 2 hours to do a little shopping with Angie from You Look Fab. I still want one…

Affordable Art

11/04/2010

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I fell in love with Shirley’s art when I was clicking on my Baskets & Poodles linky party from last week. I don’t know if all her art is as affordable as the little 5” x 5” paintings that she posts on her ‘One Painting every other day’ blog but here is some of the…

9 Lessons from a 2 year old Blogger

11/01/2010

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I started my blog because I had spent 2 days listening to webinars for designers on-line. One of them was about blogging. The speaker said every designer should have a blog. It’s the live version of your website and gives people a sense of your personality at the same time. It happened to be Halloween…

Top Two Trends from High Point

10/30/2010

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Clayton Gray Home Well I was going to skip this post but then I received an email from one of my readers letting me know that the little I had posted from my High Point trip was NOT ENOUGH 🙂 I had also come to the conclusion that a few of my blogger friends had…