Home isn’t a place. Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.
Purchasing a home is exciting but can also be stressful, especially if you don’t understand all the closing costs involved. Your price at closing fees will vary depending on your mortgage company. You must understand as much as you can Read More
The wind slips through the stems and fronds of the palms, evoking thoughts of trade winds and tropical beaches. The palm, or Arecaceae family, also known as Palmaceae, includes approximately 202 genera and more than 2,600 species. Based on the Read More
One of the advantages of prefinished hardwood flooring is that the factory-applied finish is baked on, making it more durable and longer-lasting than finishes implemented on-site. Your prefinished engineered flooring doesn’t need much maintenance when it’s new, and keeping it Read More
Making something by hand, while it’s a knitted cozy for your favorite coffee mug, a table you’ve built yourself or a hand-stamped card, creates a sense of satisfaction that buying something in a shop simply doesn’t. If you have caught Read More
Have you been dreaming about employing an interior designer? Wondering if hiring a designer is right for you, or just need to learn more about what the approach is really like? We requested two Best of interior designers, Kate O’Hara Read More
Fast — what color are the walls? If you answered with a single word — say, “blue” or “yellow” — maybe your walls can use a small chromatic intervention. I’ve always been a lover of in-between colours — these indescribable Read More
Composition is key to creating beautiful photos. While photography is surely subjective, some perspectives are usually more pleasing than others. Study other photographs to see what perspectives you like; your perspective will vary depending on your audience and interests. I Read More
When my indoor or outside area needs a quick facelift, I like to make inexpensive, simple and resourceful furnishings. An empty (and free) electrical spool is just one of my preferred base pieces to start with. I’ve been producing upholstered Read More
Do you have a rusty old grill pitched somewhere out of sight — say, under the deck or behind the garage? I know I did for many years, and thus did user Beverly Gardner. Her grill was failed and rusty, Read More
This homeowner called interior designer Lisa Konjicek-Segundo of Olive Juice Designs at the last moment, or instead, the last trimester, to change a junk room into a nursery school. They did not have time for custom or back orders, so Read More