Bring Fall Into Your Home With Easy DIY Projects

 One of the most exciting things about the fall season is flipping your home decor to reflect the season. If you’re on a tight budget or looking for a fun weekend project, here are a few easy and affordable ways to spruce up your home for fall, making it look

Accessible Elegance for Family Living

 From its dramatic moody dining room wall colour and modern abstract art to its light-filled, south-facing kitchen and traditional butler’s pantry, this stately three-storey centre hall brick home in the Glebe is a study in contrasts: elegant and refined, but livable and modern for today’s busy family. With a Georgian-inspired

Homes: The Layered Living Room

 Looking to create a layered look in your living room? There’s no real science to it. It is really a form of art as to which combinations of colours, patterns or textures work best together for dramatic effect. However, there are some tips, as opposed to rules, that can help

Homes: Beam Me Up

 WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT Star Trek here. Take a look up and marvel at the architectural use of beams in an interior environment. My clients had a vision. They wanted their home in Westboro to have an overall rustic organic feel of a cottage get-a-away mixed with the tailored

Homes: Bathroom Bliss

 Hmmm – bathroom and bliss: an oxymoron in your home? Is your toilet the first thing you see when you walk into your bathroom? Do you have sufficient storage for all your bathroom essentials or is all the clutter driving you mad? Do you long for more space in sharing

IKEA’s Big New Ottawa Store Opens for Business TODAY!

 The highly anticipated launch of Canada’s largest IKEA store is set for today. Growing from the company’s smallest store to its largest, IKEA Ottawa will double its product offering to fill the newly-expanded 398,000 square-foot store. The new store will also offer customers double the number of parking spots, triple

The Power of a Pillow

 When it comes to decor, the effect of a pillow or pillows is greatly underestimated. Most often, they are an afterthought. However, if you think about it, pillows are one element that can dramatically alter the overall mood in a room, not to mention increase the quality quotient. The pillow

Baby, Bedroom & Beyond…

 Got a baby on the way?  If so, then there is no doubt that images of creating a baby’s bedroom are probably dancing in your head.  You will want to design something that will grow with that child beyond the baby stage. Potentially, this could be viewed as a gargantuan