Embrace colour, fearlessly!
Add exuberance to any space. Reach out to learn how to love colour in your home. If you’re ready to introduce this or another colourful area rug into your life, get in touch.
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How to Create Calm with Contemporary Colour
The colours that please and inspire us shift over time, on an individual basis, but also globally. Our palettes morph fluidly as colours come on the scene and drift off to make way for other colours. Colours you love will never be truly out of style as they can be made fresh and contemporary by adding a more current colour to your palette.
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Create a Joyful and Eco-Friendly Living Room Makeover
No Blank Canvas: Hold onto the things you love – the things that feel good to the touch, comfy to relax with, those things that spark fond memories. Tossing out everything to start from scratch means losing the cozy, inviting feel of a well-loved home. A joyful home tells the story of you and the…
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Rescue a Formal Dining Set for a 21st Century Lifestyle
Have your parents been trying to gift you their beloved antique table and chairs? Have you noticed those insanely great deals for traditional dining sets on social media markets? I know. I get it. You’re thinking that old fashioned stuff is going to totally mess up your decor aesthetic. But, before you stick your nose…
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The Good Stuff: Crafted and Local – Gaspereau River Chairs
I love Gaspereau River Chairs as much for their quirky style as for their superior comfort. As Perry Park, designer and crafter of these chairs, tells it; he noticed his dad perched on an uncomfortable stump beside a row of empty Muskoka chairs. Perry asked why he wasn’t sitting in a chair. It seems the…
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Simplifying and Downsizing
All Shapes and Sizes: Downsizing is relative. Some consider a reduction to a 2000 square feet home a big change. While others have never lived in anything that large. So, one person’s idea of smaller living may be quite different for another. But there are as many plans for a beautiful smaller home as there…
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Nurture With Colour at 35% Off + Narrow Foyer Part 2
It’s Easter Bunny Weekend as I write this. Call it self-isolating or sheltering in place, either way, most of us are into week five of spending a LOT of time at home. If you’ve been doing Easter Eggs this week or noticing the crocuses popping up along your walks, you may be contemplating the power…
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Sharing the Good Stuff (Guinea Fowl and Fixing a Narrow Foyer)
After a tough week of dealing with the personal and professional stresses that this COVID-19 situation has imposed, I am determined that I will be a catalyst for positivity. With so much fear, uncertainty, and sadness in the world and in our communities right now, we all need a counterweight to all of that. Human…
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Making Your Home More Beautiful and Joyful at this Time
Hello everyone – I hope that you are keeping healthy and happy. Here in Nova Scotia, it’s pretty normal for neighbours to show up with a helping hand for one another when times are tough. But this new normal has most of us feeling at a loss as to what to do to help and…
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Fresh Family-Friendly Traditional Home
Fresh Family-Friendly Traditional Home Inject youthful energy with style and elegance. A traditional home springs to life with modern materials, bold patterns, and luscious curves. Follow this project and catch the big reveal when you sign up at the bottom of this page to be notified about new posts .
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