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How to Make a Temporary Home Office: Ideas and More

  Ideas to Make a Temporary Home Office for Adults OR KIDS! If you’re a veteran at-home-worker like me, you likely have a well-established home office. However, these days, many people will be trying to carve out space amidst toys, miscellaneous furniture pieces and free-range toddlers. I’m here to help. Because there are SO many […]

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How to Redecorate Your Living Room WITHOUT Spending Any Money

  5 Steps to Redecorate Your Living Room for Zero Dollars If you’re anything like me, you’re spending a LOT more time at home these days. And as you sit there pondering this CRAZY world, you might be looking around your room and thinking ‘hmmm, maybe I’ll deep clean, maybe I’ll declutter, maybe I’ll drink […]

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E-BOOK: DIY Decorating Ideas to LOVE the Home You Live in!

I’m SO stinkin’ excited! As promised (albeit a few months late), I’ve finally published my newest e-book – THE 5 ROOM FIX: LOVE THE HOME YOU LIVE IN Click HERE or on the above image to get your copy! This e-book is FULL of great ideas to reclaim your home and embrace your space – […]

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How to Mix, Match and Coordinate Wood Stains / Undertones

  How to Coordinate and Match Wood Stains- Oak, Maple, Cherry and More What makes one wood finish clash with another? What makes one stain look fabulous and another look fugly? And how do you coordinated existing wood stains with NEW ones? It all comes down to undertone. Now, this can get tricky as wood […]

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The 8 Best Benjamin Moore Paint COLOURS for Home Staging, Selling

  The Best Paint COLOURS for Home Staging or Selling Partner post: The Top 8 Light Paint Colours for Home Staging To be honest with you, I’m not a consultant who believes that all homes sell better when painted light, neutral colours. In fact, many homes sell faster and for more money because the colours in […]

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The Best Paint Colours to Update a Brick Fireplace

  The Best Paint Colours to Update and COORDINATE with Your Brick Fireplace Partner post to How to Update Your Fireplace – 4 Fireplace Update Ideas If you’ve been following my blog for a while (bless your lil’ heart) you’ll know that I LOVE to paint anything that men HATE to paint -brick, wood, you […]

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BIG NEWS: 2 Home Staging E-Books

My FIRST E-Books…and there’s more to come!  I’m so friggin’ excited I can hardly type straight (either that or I’ve had one glass too many…again)! Seriously, I love to hear myself talk SO MUCH, that I thought I should not just have a BLOG, but I should write e-books too! Actually, REALLY seriously, I friggin’ […]

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How to Update your Fireplace – 5 Easy & Affordable Ideas

  5 Update Ideas for your Fireplace:  Brass, Mantel, Hearth and Surround Partner post to The Best Paint Colours for Rooms with a Brick Fireplace  Is your fireplace outdated and boring? Have you been wanting to make a change, but can’t afford a full fireplace makeover? If so, then get ready to give your fireplace a […]

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How to Update Your Kitchen on a Budget – Top 4 Ideas and Tips

  Kitchen Update Ideas: 4 Budget-Friendly and Fun Ideas!  If you have champagne dreams on a box o’ wine budget – this blog post is for you. And really, even if you’re made of money, there’s no reason to spend it all when you can do affordable updates and keep some money in your hot […]

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4 Ideas: How to Update Oak or Wood Cabinets

  How to Update Your Outdated Wood Cabinets Partner post to The Best Paint Colours to go with Oak / Wood Oak cabinets – you either love them (if you’re a man) or hate them (if you’re a woman). And yes, I’m labelling, but I come across the same gender divides again and again when it […]

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How to Decorate and Accessorize Using The Rule of Three and Odd Numbers

  The Rule of Three and Odd Numbers First, let’s start with a disclaimer – I always break the rules. I get excited, bored, change my mind, move something, buy something, sell something, break something – you get the idea. My home is ever-evolving and in the process, rules (and many other things) get broken. […]

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4 Easy Steps and Ideas: How to Decorate and Accessorize a Mantel

  Mantel Decorating Ideas: 4 Easy Steps for Your Home Decor Is your fireplace mantel being eaten alive by framed photos, candle holders and that old brass clock? (oh, you are so busted…) It’s time to crack the whip and get your mantel into shape with a few little things that we decorators call steps […]

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How to Create a Simple Decorative Vignette

  How to Use Your Home Decor to Create a Vignette ‘A vig WHAT?’ you might ask? A vignette. A vignette is essentially a small-scale decorative display full of all of your purdy and important things – and please don’t ask me to pronounce it correctly.  All I know is that it starts off sounding […]