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Ask Maria: Can I Paint my Walls to Match my Couch?

07/23/2019
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If you are shopping for a couch, stop trying to choose your wall colour first! Instead, I’m suggesting you paint your walls to match your couch! Here’s a little decorating lesson on how this can pull a room together, as well as some questions to ask yourself before you settle on a wall colour. Years…

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How Soon Will My Farmhouse Kitchen Design Look Dated?

01/29/2019
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Everyone is currently obsessed with the farmhouse or modern farmhouse kitchen design style (thanks Joanna Gaines). If you are considering a farmhouse kitchen (or recently built/renovated a modern farmhouse kitchen), you might be asking yourself how soon will my farmhouse kitchen look dated? Can your farmhouse style be classic and timeless? Because creating a classic…

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Ask Maria: Help my Revere Pewter Cabinets look Purple!

01/09/2019
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In some homes, warm green grey colours like Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter or Edgecomb Grey start to look a little purple. People want to blame the lighting, but more often it’s because you chose the wrong colour or the wrong neutral undertone. Let me explain. Help! My Revere Pewter Cabinets Look Purple! This is a…

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My Designer Secret for Updating Old Kitchen Cabinets

10/28/2018
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I’m sharing my best designer secret for updating old kitchen cabinets. If you are planning to paint your existing, dated oak kitchen cabinets, this design hack will make your kitchen cabinets look modern and current.   This question has not been covered on the blog so when Sherry sent it in, I decided it would be…

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Ask Maria: Is My Bedroom Colour too Clean with my Antique Sari?

08/30/2018
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I’m learning something new about colour from all the photos you’ve been sending me. Well, maybe it’s not new, but I’m feeling validated on a statement I constantly make in my workshops. There are a multitude of decorating faux pas including ‘clean vs. dirty’, or ‘my-paint-colour-changes-with-the-light’ mistakes that you can hide with the right amount…

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Ask Maria: What is the Most Timeless Colour?

04/10/2018
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Everyone wants to know what the most timeless colour is. Here’s what a true colour expert thinks. Hint: it’s not the current, trendy neutral.  I get asked this so often and I have stated this many times on the blog but I think it needs it’s very own post. (updated December 2019) What is the…

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