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Should my Kitchen and Dining Room Match?

05/07/2015
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Are you wondering if your kitchen and dining room should match? This is such a common decorating dilemma. See what advice I share with one of my readers.  I’m am a big fan and follower of your “Ask Maria” series. I’ve never done anything like this before so I thought I’d give it a go….

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Fresh Solution to an Expensive Problem: Kitchen Valance

01/11/2015
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My sister Elizabeth called me and said “Now that the Christmas garland draped above the window above my kitchen sink is gone (below) it looks sooooo empty.” Photo by Tracey Ayton And, she really hated looking at the bad transition between the end of the backsplash tile (below) which could not continue above the window….

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Soft Blues, Ethereal Whites & Grays: Before & After

11/13/2014
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Remember the exterior transformation of this navy blue house I showed you awhile ago? Well, here’s the interior. Clearly my sweet reader and client Nicole has a wonderful creative eye and just needed some colour direction from me.  Lovely medium brown floors. Before  Walls – BM Stonington Gray After Before  After The blue ceiling is BM…

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Quick Announcement and a Favour regarding White

08/01/2014
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We are really close to finishing my long-awaited eBook on white: White is Complicated, A Decorators Guide to Choosing the Right White  (above). We plan to release it in the Fall. It’s funny, at first I was sure this book would be shorter than How to Choose Paint Colours: It’s all in the Undertones, but it’s just as…

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Decorating with Red: Before & After

07/22/2014
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Paula from Salad in a Jar hired me in April for an on-line consultation to help with colours and decorating updates on her house. Two hours later, she had a plan and three months later, here is the fabulous result! This is what she said: “Thank-you again for helping me a few months ago. You gave me a…

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Five Ways to Warm up a White-on-White Modern Kitchen

07/14/2014
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I know, you think I’m going to say yellow (since it’s my favourite colour), and yes, this colour will certainly warm up a white, modern kitchen, but actually here’s how you do it. First, this kitchen was designed by my good friend Interior Designer Lee Stergios in North Vancouver, who specializes in kitchen design. At…

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A New Way to Design Accent tile: Ceramic Architecture

06/28/2014
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I first learned the term ‘ceramic architecture’ when the VP of Waterworks gave a presentation and I wrote this post afterwards about perfect vs. perfectly nice bathrooms. When I searched ‘ceramic architecture’ on google, I was fascinated that absolutely nothing comes up with regard to tile layouts. As many of you know, accent tile has a bad…

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Do Kitchen Appliances Really Need to Match?

03/06/2014
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When I went appliance shopping for my new white kitchen (the rest of the before’s and after’s are here) the salesperson informed me that I could always ‘coordinate’ my appliances, that they did not need to match. Pantry wall Before Knowing that my fridge and wall oven would be right beside each other (below), I…

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