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How to Decorate with all Neutrals for Fall

10/04/2016
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It seems that neutrals are warming up. Here’s how decorate your living room for fall by injecting some brown – and still feel modern and fresh! For some time now, there’s been talk about browns and warmer neutrals coming back to replace gray. Last week, when someone asked if I would write a post about taupe because Sherwin Williams…

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How to Choose Paint Colours that Work with Your Lighting

10/29/2014
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I recently received this question from Shelley, asking how useful it would be to custom mix a paint colour to get it right with the light in her home. “I’ve recently used BM Manchester Tan in a pantry that has a large fluorescent light fixture, and it looks lovely — right at the happy intersection of warm and cool….

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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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Outdoor Vignette on my Patio: Before & After

05/25/2014
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As you know, I’m decorating my patio this Spring. Our deck most definitely needs to be replaced, but we can’t do that without replacing the vinyl siding first. As we’re not prepared to go there quite yet, I’m decorating instead. I’ll show you everything soon, today, I’m just showing you the vignette I created on my Pottery…

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My Patio Plans this Spring (Include Snakes)

04/13/2014
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We have lived in our new house in the country for exactly two years now. We took possession in the middle of April in 2012. First, we renovated the interior and replaced the kitchen. Then last Spring at the end of April 2013, we totally ripped out the front and back yard.  So it’s taken…

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What I did on the Way to a Super Bowl Party

02/02/2014
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Since we live in the West Coast of British Columbia and are only 2 1/2 hours from Seattle, most of us cheer the Seahawks. And, as you know, they won last night, hooray! That’s enough about that, haha. I hung out with the Mom’s upstairs at the party because truthfully, I have no interest in football.
I was in Portland last week (more about that another day) where I did a little no-tax shopping and

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Eclectic Art in the Hallway

01/28/2014
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{Front Door Colour: Cloverdale 7669} The art wall in my hallway has looked like this almost since we moved in over a year ago. I couldn’t stand the wall sitting empty so I filled it with mostly empty frames in the hopes that it would inspire me to fill them faster. It didn’t. Every time…

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The Counter Stools in my Kitchen

10/20/2013
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Have you noticed that you can’t stick any old bar stool at your kitchen island? They really do have to be customized to coordinate with your kitchen. I have received a few emails asking if your counter/bar stools or kitchen table and chairs should coordinate with your kitchen and the answer is, yes they absolutely…

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Ivy Wall Mural Inside my Design Studio

10/06/2013
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This ivy wall mural gave much needed life to my interior design studio walls. See the before and after.  After much thinking, I decided to order the wall of ivy wall mural instead of the very cool, huge leaf mural because I wanted it to look like a real garden wall right inside my studio….

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The Shocking Truth about TOO much Black

09/17/2013
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When is too much black just bad? In 2011 when we were living in our townhouse in North Vancouver, I chose the wrong fabric for my new chair and ottoman. I was so embarrassed. The truth is, I was procrastinating I had my yellow sofa (above) and that was an easy choice for me to make….

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