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Should You Install Gray Wood Floors?

08/18/2014
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The first day of my Specify Colour with Confidence™ Training is my favourite. It’s when all the participants of my courses have their biggest transformation about understanding colour and undertones. But before they experience this transformation, I set up the entire three days of training with a conversation about magic, about selling the right colour, about selling…

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How to Quiet a Small Herd of Elephants

07/08/2014
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This is another post from my genius Director of All Things Wonderful, Irene Hill. It’s been just over three years since she came into Terreeia’s and my life and we cannot imagine being without her. “For those of you who have been following Maria’s fabulous blog for awhile, you probably read the Two Magic Words post I…

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The New Timeless Hardwood Floor

03/10/2013
timeless light wood floors
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Are you ready to say goodbye to your dark espresso brown floors. If so, you may be wondering which hardwood floor is the most timeless? So I wrote a newsletter article to help answer that questions. Here is the link to the newsletter article I wrote.  Many homeowners are still installing espresso brown flooring and while it’s…

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Spectrum Stone and Maria’s New Countertops

08/14/2012
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Did you know that you can’t measure for countertops until after your cabinets are installed? Well, that’s why it took an extra few weeks of camping outside when we first moved into our new house. Felix (the owner) & Vincent (sales) Then measurement day came, yay! One of the reasons I used Spectrum Stone to…

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Do you choose Finishes based on Light vs. Dark?

09/01/2010
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I can’t tell you the number of times I have had people say things like this: “Well I picked that flooring because it was the lightest one, I didn’t want my place to look dark”, or I chose that tile because I didn’t want my bathroom to look dark. Dana Wolters Well that is, until…

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How Important is the Colour of Wood vs. Wall Colour?

07/27/2009
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When people ask me for colour advice (at a dinner party or somewhere other than their home), they are always quick to describe the colour of their wood furniture or flooring. Usually this is because they don’t have anything else they can use for colour inspiration, and they are probably quite sure that the colour…

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