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5 Steps to Decorating a Guest Bedroom

04/02/2024
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I’m so excited to continue to lend my decorating skills to make a real difference. With each room at Wilma’s Transition house that I work on, I try to create spaces that offer comfort and support to women and children in need. From arranging the furniture to adding thoughtful and colourful touches, I want these…

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NEW VIDEO! My Colourful Home Tour

03/30/2022
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Join me for a colourful video home tour of my bungalow ranch. Plus, I’m sharing my favourite tips for decorating with colour throughout your home. But before we get started, I need to share some heartbreaking news. 💔 Many of your know Tricia, my director of eDesign. But what you might not know is that…

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Sleep in a Cloud This Christmas + a Luxurious Giveaway!

11/17/2019

I have often thought about ordering expensive Italian bedding because occasionally when we’ve stayed at a higher end hotel with fabulous sheets, I don’t want to get out of bed because I’m so comfortable. When Steve from Vero Linens asked if I’d like to try out his high-end Italian bedding, I happily accepted! I ordered…

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Ask Maria: Is My Bedroom Colour too Clean with my Antique Sari?

08/30/2018
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I’m learning something new about colour from all the photos you’ve been sending me. Well, maybe it’s not new, but I’m feeling validated on a statement I constantly make in my workshops. There are a multitude of decorating faux pas including ‘clean vs. dirty’, or ‘my-paint-colour-changes-with-the-light’ mistakes that you can hide with the right amount…

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Before and After: Tricia’s Black Bedroom Reveal

05/22/2018
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This is a guest post by my Senior Colour Designer Tricia Firmaniuk! Love the look and feel of her new bedroom transformation: ____________________________________________ My house is very cozy and small. And because I like to switch things up, I’ve kept the walls ALL cream. I’ve been craving the drama of deep walls, but my main…

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How to Make Your Husband Cry

02/04/2018
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How to Make Your Husband Cry Have you listened to my Ballard podcast yet? I was so honoured to be a part of the amazing group of creatives that appear on their podcast! We taped the podcast in Atlanta last Fall after Caroline, Taryn and Karen spent Day 1 in my workshop! It’s all about…

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Why I love this How to Decorate Podcast

07/09/2017
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So I’m an 80s child and lately we’ve discovered Apple Music for our iPhones. At Christmas, Terreeia and I treated ourselves to a new portable Bose stereo which, of course, are now wireless, and then we started creating Playlists on our phones. I created an 80s playlist which I listened to for a while in my…

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How to Work with Bedroom Carpet You Don’t Like

01/22/2015
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Recently, I had a consultation with Lori who wanted help with her great room, paint colours and her bathrooms. She walked me through her house and we created a furniture plan for her great room, chose colours throughout and discussed her bathrooms. In the first bathroom we were able to make the room look new (and save her brand new granite countertop)…

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Which Mattress is the Most Comfortable?

02/16/2014
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Princess and the Pea, that’s me right now! For a while now, every morning when I get out of bed and bend over in front of the sink to wash my face, my back screams with pain. Then shortly after I’ve been walking around for a while, I’m fine. But I notice it’s tender. We…

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