Crafts | DIY | Decorating | Renovations
Have you ever wanted to dress up a room or change it up a little – without breaking the bank or taking several weekends to do it? Well, take a look at these… 10 Decorating Ideas Under $20 1. Create a gallery wall using a collection of family photos – print them out in black [...]
Have you ever thought about the colours in your house? Really thought about them? Decorating with colour is more about visual balance than ‘equality’. Decorator’s often follow what is known as the 60-30-10 rule: 60 percent of a dominant colour (like the wall colour) 30 percent of a secondary colour (like the couch & chair, [...]
For easy decorating, I often refer people to Bouclair. You see, Bouclair stores are laid out by color; there’s a blue aisle, an orange aisle, a fuchsia aisle, etc. You can even peruse their website by color! This method of merchandising makes it INCREDIBLY easy for those that are decor challenged to pick out lighting, art and [...]
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Have you ever thought about what home decor will look like in the future? Not just next season’s or next year’s trends, but WAY in the future. Like - I don’t know - sixty-five years into the future, say in the year 2077? via ImageLocations, Inc Amidst much excitement, Showcase very recently (May 27th to be exact) launched a [...]
After a busy {but FUN!} long weekend away in Niagara Falls, we don’t have any new projects to report…at least not today. Instead we will share what we came up with after briefly rearranging the living room (we have friends coming to visit this weekend…Am I the only one who feels the desire to give guests something new to look [...]
I’m pretty sure I promised you guys an inspiration board for our master bedroom awhile back. Didn’t I? Perhaps not? Am I imagining things? Well in any case, that’s what today’s post is about, so lucky you! First a little refresher (as always, right?). Our sixty-eight year old war-era bungalow was only a two bedroom [...]
Well, we lit up the hallway anyway! We posted awhile back about our front hall progress from ‘teenie tiny’ to ‘ah, much better’. There are still a few projects left to finish (does it ever end really?) like sanding and refinishing the hardwood and putting down quarter round and painting the remainder of the ceiling and [...]
Being that we start to put up our Christmas decorations on November 1st every year, I tend to putter and tweak them as Christmas draws nearer. I think it originally started because when the kids were small, like toddler-small, I would have to fix what they ‘messed up’. I used to redo the tree several [...]
****THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH SUNNY-DAY PHOTOS!!! **** The sun came out for about ten minutes on Black Friday – of all days! So we quickly snapped some new photos. Enjoy! It is finally finished! That giant piece that is our buffet and hutch is done…and looking beautiful, I might add. First let me apologize [...]
Technically this lamp is part of our living room mini makeover…but I thought if I titled this post Living Room Mini Makeover – Part Four, you all might just disown me! (In case you’ve missed it you can read about the rest of the makeover here, here and here). In doing our living room revamp, we [...]
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