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Black Frames to Vintage Gold Frames with Rub n Buff
Crafts/DIY | Dining Room | Most Popular

Black Frames to Vintage Gold Frames with Rub n Buff

I turned black frames into vintage gold frames with beautiful patina. Check out how! If you’ve been following along on my mini dining room transformation, you’ll remember that I removed the cabinet with my collectibles in it, that we installed the picture frame moulding, then we painted the inside of the frames and now the…

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Dining Room Design Boards
Dining Room | Interior Design

Dining Room Design Boards

I’ve changed my dining room by switching rugs and artwork but keeping the same furniture! Check out these design boards. If you follow me on Instagram, you might have noticed when Aaron installed the new moulding in our dining room. I’ll sharing a post soon on how easily it was to install but first I’ve…

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Spring Dining Room with Greenery and Gold + Video
Dining Room | Spring | Table Settings

Spring Dining Room with Greenery and Gold + Video

I decorated my dining room for spring with simple touches of gold and shades of green. Let me show you how. Green has always been my favourite colour and adding natural greenery is such a great way to incorporate shades of green into any space. The touches of gold really add to the ambience in…

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Becoming a Minimalist But Keeping Some Collections
Dining Room | Interior Design | Organization

Becoming a Minimalist But Keeping Some Collections

Have you ever wanted to become a minimalist? I’m trying to become one but allowing myself to keep some collections. Let me show you how. This post contains affiliate links for your shopping convenience. Click to read my full disclosure policy. Minimalism Have you ever wanted to become a minimalist? To me the word minimalist…

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Beautiful Christmas Table Setting Ideas
Christmas | Dining Room | Table Settings

Beautiful Christmas Table Setting Ideas

Check out these beautiful Christmas table setting ideas for the holiday season. I love setting a beautiful Christmas table whether it be for a Christmas dinner or a casual Christmas morning, I want it be feel cozy, homey and festive. I have many table settings for Christmas over the years so let’s get started! Christmas…

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Canadian Spring Tour – Kitchen and Dining Room + Video
Dining Room | Kitchen | Spring

Canadian Spring Tour – Kitchen and Dining Room + Video

Canadian spring tour of my kitchen and dining room. My kitchen and dining room are all decorated for spring and I can’t wait to share these rooms with you! Today I’m taking part in a Canadian spring tour of my kitchen and dining room along with a bunch of other amazing Canadian bloggers. Thank you,…

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Valentine’s Day High Tea Party
Dining Room | Table Settings | Valentine's Day

Valentine’s Day High Tea Party

Valentine’s Day is coming up and what a better way to celebrate it than with a high tea party. I LOVE high tea! There was a time just before I had kids where I would go to for high tea place almost every month with girlfriends. It’s the most perfect way to catch up with…

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Fresh and French Fall Kitchen Tour
Dining Room | Fall | Kitchen | Living/Family Room

Fresh and French Fall Kitchen Tour

Fresh and French Fall Kitchen tour – the funnest room in the house to decorate for fall. Updated Sept 2025 When I bought this house this kitchen was a small, sad 1980s wreck in need of a makeover. The entire main floor of my house was gutted about almost two years ago now. You can…

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Eucalyptus, Pears and Roses Table Runner Centrepiece
Dining Room | Fall | Table Settings

Eucalyptus, Pears and Roses Table Runner Centrepiece

A step by step guide to table setting with seeded eucalyptus, pears and roses as a table runner centrepiece is a unique and beautiful way to decorate your dining room for fall. Updated Sept 2025 If you already know me, you’ll know that I’m a huge fan of soft neutrals. Last year I decorated my…

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This is the one thing you have to worry about when This is the one thing you have to worry about when you’re putting a room together. And I’m using my basement as an example, because my basement is just a hangout for my kids (along with my treadmill) and I haven’t purchased any new furniture for this room, it’s just sort of happened. But it does work! And the reason it works is because I did make sure that the scale of the furniture works together. The size of it all works together. Imagine a tiny box of a coffee table in front of the couch, it would look funny, as an example. So if you are saving up for furniture or waiting to figure out your style, just focus on scale and I promise you your room will look good in the meantime. And adding artwork helps. 😉 (Also I said towards the end…when you’re waiting to put furniture together…I meant ROOM waiting to put a room together) 🥴
My 2 easy steps to finding your decorating style! My 2 easy steps to finding your decorating style! It doesn’t need to be hard! But it can be overwhelming with all the great design inspiration out there. And because everything costs so much, you want to make sure you make the right decision. Here are 2 easy steps. 1) Gather images of everything you love (magazine cut outs, Instagram saves, or Pinterest pins) and don’t try to figure out why you love it. Then step back and see if you can find a pattern or theme. 2) Find the one object in your house that you can’t live without - maybe it’s a vase, a piece of art - for me it’s my sofa. I’ve had it for 20 years, Use this one item as a jumping off point. It’s your anchor. When you start to feel lost, go back to that item and ask yourself…will it go with this one piece? I had it reupholstered once and will reupholster it again…if my cat ever stops scratching it. #finddecoratingstyle #decoratingstyle #designstyle #decoratingtipandtricks
Unpopular opinion from an interior designer Beca Unpopular opinion from an interior designer Because I think we would all love hardwood or the look of hardwood up the stairs. But it can be slippery, especially with kids. Adding a carpet runner up the stairs is an excellent choice but now you are paying for two floorings on one staircase. To make the stairs safe and look good and be good on your budget, adding a fun pattern carpet on the stairs is a great alternative! #flooringforstairs #stairsflooring #carpetdesign #stairrunner
No one can say I haven’t tried hard. I’ve gone t No one can say I haven’t tried hard. I’ve gone through so many ‘starting over’ phases in my life I should be an expert by now but it just shows you that we are always learning and growing. And if you feel like you’re too old to start over or to start something new, I promise you, you are not. No matter what has happened in my life, I keep getting back up there. And I don’t know what the future holds but I’m excited for the journey (or at the very least, trying to convince myself of that). #startingvoer #resilience #challengeyourself
I’m sharing with you how to create your home into I’m sharing with you how to create your home into your sanctuary and going over design basics with you. This is Part 3 I’m showing you my floorplan of my living that I got from my realtor so that you can do the same - you don’t need any fancy CAD program. You need to figure out where the pathways are, like I mentioned in my previous video. Place the big furniture first - for the living room, it would be the couch/sofa. Then my little marble coffee table and the cabinet ACROSS from the couch with a TV above it (I know I said above...greenscreen recording was so difficult for me, I wasn’t about to redo it lol) Then I added my two armchairs and the large vintage green rug. The armchair that is by the window and fireplace gets moved over closer to the sofa when I have company over but for the day-to-day, it works to keep it near the window to fill that space and also keep the pathways clear. Working with floorplans is so important especially when dealing with an awkward space. Did you find this video helpful? Let me know in the comments! #designbasics #interiordesignbasics #interiordesignfloorplans #designfloorplans #floorplanning
OMG these cupboards are so dirty! Even after wipi OMG these cupboards are so dirty! Even after wiping them down with a cloth. Am I going to have to repaint them? I got a Magic Eraser and dipped it into a bucket of warm water (get really wet then wring out a bit) and wiped it all over the cupboard door (I had drips of water coming down but it wasn’t sopping wet). Then get a damp cloth and immediately wipe the cupboard door again. Dry well with a dry cloth. I did one section at a time so the water wasn’t left on each door for very long. It worked sooooo well! Next let’s try it on doors. I can always see hand marks on the doors in the hallway (I think they are handprints with hair product from the kids) and no amount of wiping will get it off except with this Magic Eraser technique. I’m so happy this worked!! I have brand new cupboards and doors! Thank goodness, who wants to repaint? Especially since they were professionally spray painted. Will you try this technique? #cleaningtips #kitchencupboards #cleaningtipsandtricks #magiceraser
We are back with Part 2 of Design Basics! When y We are back with Part 2 of Design Basics! When you are designing a room, you need to look at the floorplan of the space to really get a sense of where the furniture needs to go. Each space in your home has a flow and you need to figure out where the pathways are in a space before you can figure out where to place the furniture. You’ll need to locate Doorways Entrances Windows Electrical baseboard heaters or radiators After that, you’ll start with the big furniture pieces that you know for sure you’ll need For a living room, that would be a sofa For a bedroom, a bed For a dining room, a table For an office, a desk I know this seems obvious but finding a spot to put the sofa might be the hardest part in a living room. And if you are watching TV in this room, you’ll need to know where that relates to the sofa. Start planning your space and the one big piece of furniture and come back from Part 3! #designbasics #interiordesigntips #decoratingtipsandtricks
Here’s everything I know about interior design bas Here’s everything I know about interior design basics. I’m going to share everything with you so you can create your home into your sanctuary. Part 1 When you are designing a room, you need to know what that room is used for and who it is for Is it for sleeping? Eating? Hosting? Working? All of the above? This might seem like an obvious question to ask but let’s say you’ve saved an image of a living room that you LOVE and you want to replicate it. It has a beautiful couch, coffee table, paint color, decor items, rug, everything is perfection - but that’s someone else’s space…and yes it may look beautiful but we don’t know how they use their space. Maybe your living room needs to have storage, room for hosting, room for toys, room for watching TV. You need to get clarification of everything you need for that space and THEN you can design. So make a list of all the activities that are done in that room, what people use that room and Stay tuned for Part 2. #designbasics #interiordesigntips #decoratingtipandtricks #decorating101
I used to be scared to live alone for one reason… I used to be scared to live alone for one reason… Who would do the hard things? Starting over can be scary. I used to feel embarrassed to admit this, but I was always afraid to live alone. Not because I didn’t want independence… but because I wondered who would do the hard things. Who would change light fixtures? Who would figure things out? But I’ve learned something. Being with someone doesn’t automatically make life easier. And being on your own doesn’t mean you can’t do hard things. You can try. And if it doesn’t work out… you can call an electrician. But I did it and it looks so good! And I’m so proud of myself! ➡️ Comment SCONCES and I’ll DM the link for the light fixtures. #selfempowerment #startingover #selfimprovementgoals
I’ve never shared why I quit my interior design bu I’ve never shared why I quit my interior design business. Designing beautiful homes wasn’t the problem. Most clients want a home to come together quickly. And a dramatic reveal with everything done in a short time span is what everyone has seen on TV. But it’s not realistic unless you want everything in your house to be new. And I’ve never decorated like that. For my entire life, I’ve found furniture on the side of the rides and painted it, I’ve been given vintage furniture or sourced vintage furniture, I’ve taken my time pulling a room together. And I had considered this to be a major problem when starting my design business, but I thought...every other designer seems to be doing this so I’m sure I’ll figure it out. People hired me to get a vintage look and the time it would take to source vintage items was not practical. I realized then that I would source things in my own time and hopefully it would find a home in one of my client’s homes, but then I quickly had a basement full of home decor items that felt more like a store and it wasn’t sustainable. Also, vintage pieces speak differently to different people. I changed my formula to only sourcing new and then my clients got what they wanted quickly and were happy. But I wasn’t passionate about it. And I came to realize what I’ve known deep down all along...that homes take time to design. I’m going to be showing you how you can do it on your own and train your eye like an interior designer. #slowdecorating #collectedliving #decorating101

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