Many of today’s families prefer to gather around a kitchen island rather than use the table in the adjacent dining room. Many of today’s home owners neglect the dining room as being too formal for their lifestyle. We say” Why does it have to be...
Farmhouse style has been a top trend for some time now, so the look has now evolved in several ways. It is not a hard and fast style, and happily, it is open to interpretation by the occupants of the home where this style is employed. Generally, this style is not...
We all love a sunny day. A home with lots of large windows that bring the sunshine in is a very pleasant place to live. Interior furnishings, though, are soon damaged by the suns rays. It is always a good idea to cut down on incoming solar radiation in order to...
Chocolate, mocha, latte, and coffee. What’s not to like? These days, some say that the colour brown is passe in interior design. Colour Specialist, Marguerite Roberts, of Mulberry Interiors in Oakville, Ontario, Canada says that it is not so. Brown was...
It is now very popular to decorate our outdoor living spaces and to use them more extensively when the weather is nice, as well as having something pleasant to view from indoors during the colder months. That is, as part of our interior designing efforts, we now aim...
Back in the day, accent walls in interior design were unheard of. All four walls were the same colour and, generally, it was a subdued, conservative shade only. Oh, but 3 wallpapers were used, all uninspiring. A wainscot style wallpaper for the bottom three feet, then...
