How to Choose Island Pendants   There are no shortage of beautiful island pendants, so all you need to worry about is choosing pendants that work with the style of your home! You can choose pendants in any number of materials and finishes. Different size islands will need different sizes of pendants as well as different amounts. You want to make sure that the pendants you select are proportionate to your island, as well as the overall size and layout of your kitchen. If you have a more open concept home, you may choose pendants that are more minimal to not interrupt the sight lines into y ..read more

We always really look forward to the colour trends for the year so that we can start thinking of ways to incorporate them into upcoming designs. Use these colour palettes as a springboard and as inspiration for how you’d like to include these colours in your home. Plus, if you enjoy the colours that will be popular in 2024, you’ll have a much easier time finding pieces in these tones to include in your home. For the upcoming year, we’re going to be seeing an extension of the blue and green tones that were popular in 2021, but with a more saturated feel to them. We’ll also be seeing a lot of na ..read more

Decorating for the holidays is one of our favourite times to decorate because we can have a lot of fun with the decorations given the short time span of the season! This is a great time to introduce a lot of greenery, metallic tones, rich colours and mood lighting through the use of candles. What we love about decorating for Christmas in 2023 is the wide array of themes that your decorations can have. Gone are the days when only decorating with red and green or silver and blue are popular. Some of the colour schemes that we love most when decorating for Christmas are jewel tones, earth tones o ..read more

When the weather starts to cool down, we find ourselves wanting to spend a lot more time at home. Ideally, that’s a space that you love being and that’s decorated to suit your style. However, if you find yourself wanting to add some hygge to your home this winter, or are just looking for a seasonal refresh, these are our top tips! Styling your home for the winter is all about using rich colours, layering textures and patterns, and choosing warm accents like wood. Plus, we give our design advice for using a cosy winter palette as the inspiration to make some bolder changes in your home.   ..read more

Styling your dining room table is a great way to create a focal point and bring the entire dining room together. There are a number of different ways that you can style your dining room table to suit the table itself, as well as your home as a whole. When styling a client’s home, we like to have fun with the tablescape and use a number of different types of greenery, vases, objects and bowls to style the dining table. We tend to style rectangular dining room tables with groups of objects but keep it more simple when styling a round table. Take inspiration from our styling tips below and have f ..read more

Flatlays have become increasingly popular across social media, but one profession that has always used them is interior design. They’re organized and beautiful to look at, but they’re also incredibly helpful to a designer when planning the overall feel of your space. They’re a great tool to use when you want to take a step back and view your entire project as a whole. One way to think of a flatlay is as an interactive mood board. The actual elements of your design are right there in front of you so that you can view how they’ll look as a whole and also feel the textures of the tiles, fabrics a ..read more

Mudrooms are an often overlooked area of your home that can be stunning if given a little love! They’re also an area of your home that can become a mess if you haven’t implemented some clever design solutions. In the below photos, we’ve outlined our top tips for how to style a mudroom so that you’ll always be greeted by a room that you love, that’s neat and tidy. A few of our go to ways to design a mud room are to incorporate lots of storage, to choose interesting or patterned flooring, to paint in a darker colour and to incorporate the use of hooks and baskets for more flexible storage solut ..read more

Since its inception in the 1950’s, mid-century modern design has become timeless. It’s a type of design that we love to infuse into a home, but we like to use it minimally so that a client’s home doesn’t end up looking like the set of Mad Men (as beautiful as the sets were). Below are some examples of our favourite ways to include mid-century modern elements in our designs as seen in one of our most recent projects: The 2023 Hospital Home Lottery Showhome. In this showhome, you’ll see a number of different elements of mid-century modern (MCM) design such as curved shapes, abstract art, outside ..read more

Styling your kitchen backsplash is a delicate balance between things that are useful to you when cooking and beautiful decorative objects. When styling a backsplash, we often reach for cookbooks, vases and bowls, utensils, and wooden objects. We tend to pair these items together to make a functional, beautiful space, often using 2 or 3 of one type of item in a grouping. Each of these items comes in a wide range of styles to suite any space, so make sure to pick items from each of these categories that suite your own home and make you happy. Mixing and matching these different items to combine ..read more

There’s a lot of glamour in designing a sleek kitchen or luxurious dining room, but designing kids rooms is all about fun! We love to really lean into a theme for kids bedrooms and use this as an opportunity to play with a lot of bolder colours and fun patterns. When designing a kids bedroom, you want to make sure to place just as much emphasis on this room as you would on your own master suite. You want the room to reflect what your child enjoys and allow the room to be a sanctuary for them - much as it would be for yourself. There are a few key elements that we love to include in a kids bedr ..read more