How to Add Texture to a Room
In interior design, texture does the heavy lifting you don’t always see. It softens sharp edges, adds warmth where things feel cold, and makes a room feel lived-in instead of just decorated. Minimalist or maximalist, modern or traditional—every style comes alive through texture. What Is Texture in Interior Design? In simple terms, texture refers to […]
How to Create a Simple Modern Holiday Table
This holiday season, we’re vowing to make tasks simpler and less stressful. We’re thinking of holiday gifts (buy less), decorating (pass on the winter wonderland indoors), and hosting (it doesn’t need to be complicated). We can put so much pressure on ourselves especially when combining these last two: decorating to host a holiday event with […]
Organizing Your Home for a Renovation
Preparing and organizing your home for a renovation project is crucial to ensure the process goes smoothly and minimizes disruptions to your daily life. It also vastly improves the end result and your quality of life in your newly renovated home. It’s not uncommon for this task to feel overwhelming, as it involves a significant […]
What We Want Right Now: A Lovely Laundry Room
While the laundry room may not be the most glamorous part of our homes, it shouldn’t be dull and uninviting either—after all, we spend a good chunk of our time there. With a few design upgrades, you can transform your laundry room into a stylish and functional area that will make any time spent washing […]
6 Simple Room Layout Tips
Renovating or redecorating a room can be either incredibly exciting or downright terrifying. If you fall into the latter camp (or somewhere near it), we’re here to help! From furniture size and placement to all of the artistic elements of design – such as colour, texture and pattern – it can feel entirely overwhelming to […]
How to Mix Metals in Your Home
There’s no design rule that insists every finish in a room should match. Instead, it’s often more impactful if they don’t. Mixing metal finishes is an elevated way to increase visual interest. Varying metal finishes across fixtures, hardware, lighting, accessories, and furniture adds depth and character to the room. The task of deciding on the […]
7 Simple Ways to Update a Room
Refreshing a room that’s feeling drab or dated is easier than you might think. A room makeover doesn’t need to involve new furniture or a big budget. In fact, you can achieve an updated room that delivers on style with only a couple of simple tweaks to the decor. Take inspiration from these points below […]
How to Plan for Outdoor Living Spaces
Now more than ever, our homes have become our sanctuaries. Spending more time at home means we’re adapting additional space to accommodate our living needs. With fewer places to go, and a summer of outdoor activities on the horizon, that unused backyard could be bonus real estate on which to create an extension to your […]
How to Convert a Closet into an Office
Many of us have recently discovered the importance of a home office space. It needs to be somewhat calm, collected, and productive. And while it’s easy to pull up a seat to any surface in your home and get to work, we’ve learned that doing this for extended periods of time is detrimental to our […]
How to Update the Look of Your Fireplace
A fireplace is often the first thing that you notice when you walk into a living space. It can have a commanding presence or a subtle one, but either way it’s a focal point—as well as a feature that can alter the ambience, enjoyment, and design of the room. It’s right about now, with fall […]