Room of the Week: What’s Not to Love?

A little background: I recently sold a big old great house to a young family and we spent a lot of time together making the deal happen. During our many meetings I couldn’t resist some design talk with the wife. She happened to be a very stylish gal with equally stylish visions of the entire house,  [...]

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Our Reno: Progress Report

When I started this main floor addition, I knew that I wanted a very simple box shaped design. No irregular dips and dives, no nooks and crannies, just a staightforward box that would give us an additional 300 square feet of living space.
But I also knew that if I was going so simple, I needed [...]

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Room of the Week: Gimme something different

Sometimes I get hung up on “rules” in decorating. Matchy matchy stuff: Can you do a dark wood floor in one room and a concrete floor in another? Or can you can do a vintage light fixture in the hallway and a modern one in the dining room? I get almost frantic with insecurity even [...]

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Our Reno: Well Looky Here, We Have Walls!

Okay so I’m back to being excited about my new room, after a short bout of house envy.
My guys (as I affectionately call them) have done an incredible job this week, working long hours to get the floor and walls up. Last night the kids, J and I climbed up onto the plywood platform, the [...]

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I heart this bathroom vanity…any good conversion sites out there?

One of the things I am most excited about the reno is building the new powder room. I have been living with the smallest, ugliest and least-functional powder room for about 4 years now. The new one will remain small, but small is fine with me as long as there are pretty fixtures and a functional [...]

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Bathing Beauty: Noteworthy Canadian Company, WETSTYLE

I am currently working a big kitchen feature for International Architecture & Design magazine, and part of the fun of researching it is the new, beautiful things I happen upon along the way.
Such is the case for WETSTYLE — an absolutley knock-your-socks-off stunning bathroom fixture design company that’s also Canadian to boot. Love that.
I can’t say enough about [...]

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Room of the Week: (and) A Design Lesson Too!

Pull that sofa away from the wall!

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Our Renovation: The Lines are Drawn

First I’ve changed the tag to *Our Reno* instead of *My Reno*. It wasn’t very nice of me to take ownership of a process that affects the whole family, especially my husband. But, I will say that I am the most passionate about this renovation, and the most motivated to make it happen, and yes [...]

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Room of the Week: Out of the box but off the floor

Designers are always searching for new and interesting ways to use standard off-the-shelf materials for clients and themselves in interior projects.
Some work, some do not.
However, something I am seeing a lot more of now is the use of flooring materials on walls (cedar strips, marble, glass tiling are just a few that come to mind). Certainly it is one way to achieve [...]

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Why Concrete? The hard facts.

YES, I am installing a concrete floor in the approximately 350 sq.ft. space.

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