Holiday

It’s that time of year! Pantone announces its new colour of the year while we are making shopping lists and checking them twice. Pantone’s Colour of the Year for 2020 This year’s colour, is the safest, and most predictable yet. Classic Blue. Blue, the world’s favourite colour. Pantone haven’t announced a blue in over a…

Marilee Congo is an interior designer, fashion stylist and educator.  She attended my Specify Colour with Confidence workshop last year, then volunteered at the September course this year. She works with her husband Jon who is a General Contractor and Project Manager in Surrey, BC. Marilee confided that doing my course gave her language for articulating the…

This is a guest post from my Virtual Design Assistant Tricia Firmaniuk: Hasn’t this year whizzed past? I’m catching up to the fact that it’s already December and I’ve been busy gathering inspiration for holiday decorating. I have to say, I’m pretty excited about some of the trends I’m seeing. Source There are so many…

Crystal Hasell and I have worked together on three projects now. First her summer/pool house when Crystal and her husband Rob decided to buy the lot next door to their house instead of a cottage 5 hours away. When you see their view, you totally get it. Their summer house was published in the 2015…

My neighbour Lois has lived in her house on the corner for 30 years with her husband Heinz. Before they bought this house, they lived in a 700 square foot house in the same town, different street. Every time she walked past this house to the library she would think to herself, “I would like…

Welcome to my house! This is the pared down version since this year we leave for Palm Desert on Christmas Day and won’t return until the end of January. Because we aren’t going to be here for the entire season, I put up a flocked tree again in the family room and installed a more…

When I came home with a flocked tree this year, my sister Elizabeth decided she wanted one too. After all, she was hosting her husband’s office Christmas party again this year and a white tree would transform her decorations and make them look new again.

I’ve included a few photos from their Christmas tour in 2013 as well as this years flocked tree!