Decorating walls can be tough – even designers can find themselves struggling to fill negative wall space. A well designed room has a balanced proportion of positive (furniture, decor, art) AND negative (empty floor and wall) space. In today’s world of open concept living, it can be challenging to fill negative wall space as you … Continue reading “Alternative Wall Decor”
Your kitchen is often the biggest and most costly room in your home to renovate. However, if your kitchen has good quality cabinets and a decent layout, you can save money by reusing your cabinets (with some minor updating) and making other small, less costly changes that will give your kitchen a refresh without breaking … Continue reading “Updating Your Kitchen on a Budget”
Are you loving this look and wondering how you can achieve it as well? We’re so excited with how this room turned out. We’re a bit obsessed with the colour palette – can you blame us? We’re making it easy for you to get the look as well – see below a list of … Continue reading “Get the look – lottery dream home living room”
Here’s an example of the power of staging! These homeowners were on the market for the majority of a year. We had a consultation and recommended a paint colour for the main floor, going with a lighter more neutral colour (Benjamin Moore White Dove OC-17). We also suggested that the lower cabinets and island get painted … Continue reading “Staging to Sell: Before & After”
Adding a hanging light fixture over your dining table can have a huge impact on your dining room’s design. When placed properly, it adds an ambiance to the room that just can’t be achieved with a fixture that is flush to the ceiling. The tricky part is knowing how big the fixture should be in … Continue reading “Proper Height for Your Dining Table Light”
We’re so excited to have just wrapped up the interior design and decorating on the Spring QE2 Lottery Dream Home with Stonewater Homes again! This beauty is nestled on Kinsac Lake in Fall River. The home opens for viewings Feburary 29th and is awarded fully furnished to a lucky ticket holder. Tickets are $100 and … Continue reading “2020 Spring QE2 Lottery Dream Home”
Runners are back in, and we love how they can transform a stairwell. However, if you’ve ever priced out a runner you know they can be pretty expensive. And then the cost of install…ughh. Good news is there is an affordable option. You can purchase a set of runners and lay them one after another. … Continue reading “DIY Stair Runner”
We really feel a room is not complete until the drapes are installed. Drapes add softness and layers in a room and put the finishing touches on a space. How much fabric? We are normally not concerned with whether or not drapes will be able to fully close. Where you may want to be able … Continue reading “Drapery 101”
For this project our clients were moving to Halifax and would be working in Halifax, but then travelling for months for work as well. Therefore their home would be used as an airbnb while they were travelling. We wanted to give them a space that they could enjoy themselves, but would appeal to airbnb renters … Continue reading “An updated living space with soft earth tones”
This is one of my favorite spaces in our home. This is our family room that is open to our kitchen and at the other end of the house from our main living room / dining room area. There use to be an old fireplace in this room. I had no desire to maintain the … Continue reading “Heat pumps spread warmth throughout the home”
