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When White Walls are the ONLY Solution

04/30/2015
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{via pinterest} In the very beginning of my design career I was fortunate enough to have some great mentors. One was a very talented designer who probably couldn’t tell you about undertones but she had amazing spidey senses when it came to choosing colour. As designers working in a paint store, our job was to book in-home appointments with customers…

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The Very Best Way to Choose Your Main Neutral

04/09/2015
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Lynda was moving into this pretty little house in a new subdivision: She needed some help with a new colour scheme and was stuck on wall colours. One on-line consultation with me and she had a plan. Lynda had some existing furniture and artwork she wanted to work with, and she sent me a glimpse of her…

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Before & After: The Pinterest School of Styling

03/29/2015
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Interior design & styling by Maria Killam As I lay by the pool on my recent vacation in Kauai, I had already read both of the beach novels that I brought, so I went through my client’s library  and pulled out The Alchemist. My sister Elizabeth posing for my photo Three years ago, when my client…

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Fresh Solution to an Expensive Problem: Kitchen Valance

01/11/2015
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My sister Elizabeth called me and said “Now that the Christmas garland draped above the window above my kitchen sink is gone (below) it looks sooooo empty.” Photo by Tracey Ayton And, she really hated looking at the bad transition between the end of the backsplash tile (below) which could not continue above the window….

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Soft Blues, Ethereal Whites & Grays: Before & After

11/13/2014
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Remember the exterior transformation of this navy blue house I showed you awhile ago? Well, here’s the interior. Clearly my sweet reader and client Nicole has a wonderful creative eye and just needed some colour direction from me.  Lovely medium brown floors. Before  Walls – BM Stonington Gray After Before  After The blue ceiling is BM…

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The Zen of a Perfect Green Backsplash on The Today Show

10/23/2014
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My friend Lisa Mende invited me to Monday night at The Proximity at High Point with her pal Libby Langdon, a designer and TV personality along with Chrissy Shields. From left to right {Lisa Mendes, Chrissi Shields, Libby Langdon and Maria Killam} When we walked into the restaurant, Libby was already there and when she came around the…

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Two Reasons to ALWAYS Keep Learning

09/21/2014
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In the last year, I have been travelling and spending a lot of time in hotel ballrooms learning how to take my business and website to the next level. Finding the right guru to get you there is not an easy task, let me tell you! I’m always the ONLY colour expert/decorator in a room…

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Maria Killam’s White Garden Transformation: Before & After

08/10/2014
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It’s fascinating to have a Perennial garden designed like mine. There’s always something that takes turns blooming, so finally when my white Shasta daisies along with my white hydrangeas were looking their best, I had my photographer Tracey Ayton come out to take photos. She also photographed a summer house I’ve been working on for…

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Navy Blue Exterior: Before & After

07/29/2014
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  When Nicole moved into this house in Bucks County, PA three years ago, she hired me to help her come up with a conceptual plan for finishes and colours inside as well as exterior colour. I’ll show you the interior befores and afters in another post, she reported that her house sold within three hours of going on…

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Decorating with Red: Before & After

07/22/2014
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Paula from Salad in a Jar hired me in April for an on-line consultation to help with colours and decorating updates on her house. Two hours later, she had a plan and three months later, here is the fabulous result! This is what she said: “Thank-you again for helping me a few months ago. You gave me a…

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My White Shasta Daisies have Exploded! Before & After

07/20/2014
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Thank you everyone for your condolences the other day. I didn’t know how comforting your words would be until you wrote them! I so appreciate you!! When MaryAnne White designed my major landscaping project last year (long distance from New York), I trusted her to specify almost everything. One of my requests was for Shasta…

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Need an Extra Window Somewhere? (Do This Instead)

07/15/2014
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  When I saw this living room designed by True Colour Expert™ and Interior Designer Jennifer Reynolds my first thought was: “Look at those beautiful drapes! Wait, are the windows smaller than the drapery? No, it’s art in between each set of panels!” Here’s what it looked like before: Before You could also simply hang…

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Best Ideas for Creative Kids Rooms: Before & After

06/29/2014
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This post is written by my Director of All Things Wonderful, Irene Hill:

Last week at this time Maria and I were just finishing up the last touches of our magical home makeover for my sister, Aimee and five of her kids. They were all glowing with happiness and pride in their “new” home.

Four months ago, when Maria and I started this project of love, I carefully interviewed each of my nieces and nephews to find out what would make them love their rooms the most. I found out what they were interested in and spent hours scouring the internet to get all the little pieces exactly right. At the end of the day I wanted to see wonder and awe in each set of eyes and was over the moon that we managed to do just that!

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