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The Best Front Door Colours Inspired By Mid Century Homes

01/31/2017

The Best Way to Update Oak Furniture: Before & After

01/12/2017

My Take on Pantone’s 2017 Colour of the Year: Greenery

12/11/2016

The Barbara Barry Guide to Instagram (Through My Living Room)

05/24/2016

Ask Maria: Is My Living Room Too Beachy?

01/23/2016

Best Colours for a Basement Kitchen (1 Kitchen, 3 Ways)

11/02/2015

Tour My House: Learn the 6 Best Ways to Transition Colour

10/19/2015

Make Something Ugly almost Disappear with Disney’s “Go Away Green”

09/26/2015

7 Ways to Make the Most of What You Already Have | Before & After

07/26/2015

125 Comments

Crystal called me to help her pull together her new house. This was her request:

“I used to have a colourful condo. Oranges and yellows have always been a favourite of mine, and in the last 5 years, I’ve loved pinks. I hired a designer about 6 years ago, and I guess she was successful at convincing me that colour was kids’ stuff and neutrals were sophisticated.

So out with all my stuff and in with the new. Cream, chocolate browns, and greens. I found it bland and lifeless, although yes, very nice and sophisticated. So I started adding pink with Designers Guild bedding, decorative pillows, etc. I also bought some whimsical paintings with colour punches (I’ve attached photos of them).”

I was very impressed by your colourful portfolio and would love your help.”

See the before and afters here. . .

Where to Start When You Have a Blank Slate

05/10/2015

43 Comments

Jacqueline called me and said:

“Help! My laundry room is finished, it’s white, I followed all the advice on your blog right down to copying the shelves in your laundry room, but now that I have a white Maria Killam laundry room and I can do anything I want, I have no idea where to start!

What colour should I paint it? I painted it BM Grey Owl because I had some leftover paint but it’s doing nothing for me!”

I said, “First, Grey Owl is almost like a neutral, muted blue/green grey that would look great in a bathroom with lots of blue grey marble that coordinated with it, but for your laundry room to look fabulous, it needs a colour!