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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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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 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 […]

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The Right Height to Hang Artwork and Mirrors – Tips and Ideas

  The Right Height to Hang Artwork Above Anything There is an art to hanging artwork and mirrors. However, it’s not rocket science and if you follow some basic guidelines you’ll get it right every time! Now, for the sake of my sanity – which is questionable on a good day, I’ll be referring to […]

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Online Decorating, E-Design and Colour Consulting Services

  Not quite sure if E-Design is for you? Are you wondering how on EARTH we can live hundreds, if not THOUSANDS of miles away from each other and I can still come up with paint colours and decorating ideas that suit you AND your home? It’s a miracle it happens at all. Just joking, […]

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How to Reduce Echo in a Room

  How to Reduce Echo and Improve the Acoustics (without being technical and scientific) Hello hello hello! In the good old days (you know, the 90’s) echoing didn’t seem to be such a big issue for homeowners – wall to wall carpeting, upholstered furniture and 8′ ceilings made a big difference in the sound absorption of […]

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Marble – Get ‘The Look’ Without the ‘The High Price’

  How to Get The Marble Look for Less I love marble. Its timeless and classic style makes it a top choice for many bathroom and kitchen renovations. HOWEVER, it’s freakin’ expensive and a big ole pain in the rear end when it comes to maintenance. I was going to go on a big ole Ginger […]

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The Main Rules and Guidelines of Decorating and Accessorizing

  SIMPLE EXPLANATIONS OF DECORATIVE TERMS WHEN ACCESSORIZING I’ve spent a LOT of time writing blog posts on how to decorate everything from bookshelves and mantels to side tables and walls and found that I was referring to the SAME concepts again and again, without any real LANDING page for all of those guidelines and rules. […]

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How to Accessorize a Bookshelf – 4 Guidelines to Follow

  4 Tips and Ideas to Decorate Your Bookshelf, Built-in or Single Shelf Accessorizing bookshelves may seem intimidating if you don’t know where to start. However, I’ve found that most of my readers have everything they need to have a nicely accessorized bookshelf – they have the shelf, the books and the knick-knacks, they just […]