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Do you make this Mistake in your Business/Blog?

05/13/2010
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If you are a blogger (or are about to start one) and you want to be really good–subscribe to Copyblogger. I think it’s one of the best blogs to improve your blog daily. There’s a reason he has over 100,000 subscribers. It was when I read this post called “Could your Blog be Ruining your…

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Are your Colours Married?

05/10/2010
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You know the old “There should be a minimum of 3, maximum 4 colours in any room before it’s just a mess” rule? Well I’m exaggerating here but truly, wall colour is the same. If you have tile or stone that already has 4-5 colours in it. . . and sometimes (I know if you’re…

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I just Love the Awesomeness of It

05/09/2010
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Credit I have 4 nephews, and I’m the aunt that swoops in and occasionally takes them shopping for clothes. So yesterday when I arrived to visit my sister I took Noah (below) for a quick trip to Winners to buy him an outfit. This is the one he chose, the brightest and most colourful one….

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A Magical View along with a Before & After

05/08/2010
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When I first arrived at this reader’s fabulous address in West Vancouver for a consultation, I though that this was her home (below): I even went up and knocked on the door (the boxwood is about to be potted that’s why it’s a bit crooked) which as it turns out is the guesthouse!   Then…

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Who else knows Steampunk Style?

05/07/2010
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Has anyone heard of this look? Penelope Trunk called me today so excited that she’d just discovered it! As a design blogger, I think I’m so on the edge of ‘what’s happening now’ (maybe not) but I had never heard of this look before and honestly, it sounded like she was talking Latin I thought…

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Do you Dream about Decorating your House?

05/06/2010
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Sometimes when I get to the “Here’s what my fees are” conversation with a client, they say “But I just need colour/s”. And it seems really simple and straightforward—like anybody could come over and just choose a colour. However, rarely do the people that hire me have a simple colour problem. If colour was all…

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4 Ways to Introduce Fresh into your Current Decor

05/04/2010
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I have received a few great questions recently like ‘How do you mix all the fresh new colours with the old?’ or here’s another one, ‘How do those of us that live in modest homes (e.g. circa 1990) freshen up a dated appearance without having the whole million-dollar makeover. . . ? Credit It’s time…

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A Visit with Pure Style Home

05/01/2010
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After my Conference in Brooklyn I took a short flight to DC to Visit Lauren Leiss at Pure Style Home! I must admit it was a bit surreal.  I am a huge fan of hers (we have become great friends on the phone). Reading her blog and looking at her beautiful home for months made…

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The Inside Scoop on what’s Next in Colour

04/25/2010
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Source When I arrived in New York yesterday it was sunny and beautiful and then today we woke up to rain so it’s a good thing I’ve been in colour forecasting meetings all day long. . . The Colour Marketing Group Conference kicked off with a reception where I saw our President James Martin (above)…

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Colour Forecasting in Brooklyn

04/24/2010
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Credit Well I’m packing tonight, and (at the last minute—eeek) writing colour reports I’ll be presenting at the CMG Conference this weekend in Brooklyn!  Each conference attendee must present where colour is now, and where it’s going next! Credit You know what I think.  But I thought I’d do a poll.  Where do you think…

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Are you Colour Deprived?

04/22/2010
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This is an excerpt from Janice Linsday’s talk “Getting white Right” sponsored by Pittsburgh Paints at the Buildex show today in Vancouver; credit “The night before I arrive at a clients home, I’m sure they dream about the colours they imagine I will push on them when I arrive at their house. That I’ll arrive…

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Orange Yellow; Your Aura is Incredible

04/19/2010
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source Recently I chose a yellow for a bedroom in an on-line consultation (the house was empty). BM173 Then when my client started shopping for the room, everything she found ‘off-the-rack’ was too green compared to the orangy yellow we had chosen (above). She loves strong bright colour and doesn’t want to change it. source…

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My take on Negative Comments

04/18/2010
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I’ve been wanting to write about this for a while. And now since I’m helping Penelope decorate her farmhouse and she’s mentioned me on her blog, I’m suddenly inside her blog’s vortex of unmoderated negative comments and I must admit, it stings. (Penelope has a much higher tolerance for them than I do and I…

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Slate or Porcelain Tile in the Bathroom?

04/14/2010
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Maryaliceduncanphotography.com Recently, during a consultation,  I walked into a bathroom that was very much like this one: Source – fun post on bathrooms in the 2000’s  Okay this is actually not that bad compared to the one I saw (which was more like this one), but unless you plan to live in your house for…

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