Choosing paint colors is hard. Especially when you want to pick a bold colour like teal. Pretty much every shade looked great on the chip cards but I was scared the one I liked would be wrong. I decided to get some sample pots and paint some test patches to really get the effect of… Continue reading 10 Steps to Paint Perfection – How to Choose the Very Best Shade
Category: DIY Projects
The Easiest, Fastest Christmas DIY Craft Idea Ever – NO GLUE!
I bought these Styrofoam tree shapes and knew they would be great on our kitchen island. I wandered around and around to find something to put on them when I saw this knubbly yarn. It had a nice texture and as luck would have it, it clung nicely to the form without glue! Score! I… Continue reading The Easiest, Fastest Christmas DIY Craft Idea Ever – NO GLUE!
Fill Space with Colour
In my first post of this colour series I showed you my base room, ready for finishing touches. Here it is again to refresh your memories: Do you see the wall above the chairs, where my colour splotches are? That wall is large and bare. I’ve thought about what to put on that wall since… Continue reading Fill Space with Colour
Creating Interest with Colour
Our home is a new build house. Meaning, it’s beautiful and new but every single wall is the same color. Bringing some character into this place is going to take time but there’s an easy and fast way to make some impact right now. Our front entrance was bare except for a rug we put… Continue reading Creating Interest with Colour
Colour Inspiration – The Easiest Way to Design A Room
I won’t lie and say I wasn’t completely overwhelmed when we moved into this home. We had a lot of empty rooms – the place was virtually a blank canvas. I would lie in bed at night scheming, my mind jumping from one possibility to the next. I’d browse through home decor stores, snapping many… Continue reading Colour Inspiration – The Easiest Way to Design A Room
Turn an Ikea Beside Table and Lamp into Something Special
We have been in need of lamps for beside our bed and I’ve been looking everywhere for some that were tall enough. And some that fit in the budget. No luck. Then I started thinking that sconces would be the perfect answer because we could mount them on the wall at the exact right height. … Continue reading Turn an Ikea Beside Table and Lamp into Something Special