Holiday

Since so many of you bought my White is Complicated eBook, I thought it would be fun to post about holiday white rooms and talk about which category of whites they fall under inside my system. {via Style at Home} And here you can see that the staircase is basically painted a true white. How can…

Here’s a closer look inside my home decorated for the holidays and also featured in Canadian Living Magazine. I’m including a few tips to help you decorate a magazine worthy home this season. I am overwhelmed with gratitude by the number of you who bought my White is Complicated, A Decorators Guide to Choosing the…

Pat from Santa Monica sent me this beautiful image of a room perfect to post on Valentines Day! She said “I’ve found a pink living room that just makes me sigh with relaxation every time I pull it up”. I totally agree. Thanks Pat, you totally inspired this post!  Photography by Clive Tompsett Farrow & Ball…

When Betsy found my blog and read this post, she realized her white house was just a little too white paired with the more earthy brick columns and railing. A few days ago she emailed me her exterior holiday lights and I asked her to send all of the images if she had them. Here’s…

One of the perks of having a designer sister (me) as well as living a mere 2 minute drive away is that your house can get elaborately decorated for the holidays. Dr. Bill & Elizabeth Jacobs Especially as Bill and his partners had their staff party here a week ago as well as their annual…

I really, really wanted to give you the tour of my house from the photo shoot 3 weeks ago and Christmas but Tracy Ayton, my awesome photographer, sent them into a national magazine and they are going to be published, hooray! I’ll confirm who it is very soon! So all I can do is give…

Rebecca Marshall decided to bring out all her fabulous boxes and bags to decorate her house for a good cause. Last weekend, this house was part of a tour of eight homes with all proceeds of the $10 tickets to benefit the Cyrus Centre, an inner-city resource centre responding to the needs of at-risk and homeless…

Elizabeth and I spent Saturday together Christmas Shopping on Robson Street in downtown Vancouver. Then at 6:00 pm, we decided to have dinner so we went to Cin Cin, one of our favourite restaurants. These are the stairs going up to the restaurant. You immediately feel like you’re arriving somewhere special, beautiful and european. Since…

Elizabeth and I shopped for ornaments and extra lights this weekend. We noticed that none of them were on sale. Isn’t it funny how this is pretty much the ONLY time of year we buy stuff at full price, all the while fully aware that in a week or two it’ll all be 30 –…

{Click on images for source} I am seriously, easily entertained. As many of you know, I live one hour and 15 minutes from downtown Vancouver in–gasp–Yarrow but it’s considered Chilliwack. Recently, I read The Happiness Project, an awesome book about. . . surprise, Happiness, I read it twice, back-to-back. I have NEVER done that in…

  Here’s my entry vignette to celebrate Thanksgiving. My neighbours were quick to compliment me on the colour since they are used to seeing all white flowers in my garden, haha. Every year when the fall magazines arrive on the newsstands it’s always fun to see how many ways a pumpkin can be decorated. Painted…

  source Every year my Mom tries to rally around and get us to sing Christmas carols and I’m not sure why we resist so much. Maybe it’s because none of us have a particularly gifted voice. source   source source So I was completely charmed when I read this post and saw this huge family gathering…

Thursday night we hosted a small gathering for my fabulous associate Irene Hill, her husband Kevin,  Cary Blackburn who manages my website for me and his wife Deanna. It was just Christmas lights and candelight when they first arrived, with a glass of Prosecco. Irene arrived in a fabulous cape so we had to take…

My beautiful white wreath, perfect for my already green door is from a GaBi, a local garden designer and reader of my blog. She emailed me a few weeks ago to say she had this lovely gift for me! Thanks so much GaBi! I set the tree up the in the family room since that’s…

Every day I step on this plywood step that was made by my contractor for the interim until the Spring when all the concrete will be removed. Every day I imagine what it will look like with a real stone step, bushes and a fabulous stone walkway from the house. Here’s what the exterior looked…