Colour me Party!
11/14/2008Last night was big for scheduled designer parties. First there was the annual Cantu/Living Space/Midland Appliance soiree and then the Calligaris grand opening in Yaletown. First though, my newest, talented, pal, Jennifer Rudolph and I arrived at Cantu. Here we are completely coordinated in the new black (purple). Jennifer spotted this fabulous Pearl Stripe porcelain…
The New Hollywood Regency
11/13/2008Last night in my colour class, I was having a conversation about interior design styles and one of my students pointed out an image in a magazine of an upholstered headboard in a graphic pattern and I said, “That’s very Kelly Wearstler” who is the queen of hollywood glam and drama. Not everyone knew who she…
Bachelor Pad
11/12/2008
Here are some before and after images of a media room/bar that I recently decorated for a bachelor client. You can tell the above image was taken by a professional photographer and the one below (the other side of the room) is me! It’s still looks good though if I do say so myself! While…
Food Textures & Colours
11/11/2008I found this site, Smitten, where you can order prints starting at a 4 x 6 size for as little as .63 cents. US of course. Most good things in the design world always seem to be in a US site. Darn. This purple potato is my favourite – isn’t it fabulous? All the colour…
Clean vs. Dirty Colours
11/09/2008Recently, my sister Elizabeth and I went to the Spaghetti Factory for lunch. Of course it’s always easy to be a critic and I was looking around at the colours (like I always do) and noticed that the yellow was sooooo wrong in this restaurant. There’s the rusty red woodwork and doors, dark green ceilings…
One of the best books on Interior Design I have ever read is “Style by Saladino” by John Saladino, a New York designer. I first saw him speak at the Seattle Design Show about 3 years ago where he was also promoting his new book which I snapped up immediately. I have never read a…
Colour is Everywhere
11/04/2008I was in the Robert Allen showroom today, sourcing some fabrics for my clients as the sun was setting at 4:30 pm. One of their very talented and helpful staff, Leena, mentioned that whenever she sends images of Vancouver home [to Finland, which is where my parents are from coincidentally] they always say, “You should…
When to buy Leather Furniture
11/04/2008One of the best things to come out of the brown trend is that the average consumer (especially men) have switched from buying black leather furniture to brown. I have seen so much leather in my consultations I have come to the conclusion that the reason why most people buy leather sofas is because there…
When I originally sent my website designer the images of the rooms I had designed, she only liked ONE image. It had been taken by someone who had a professional camera. That’s when I decided to hire a professional, my friend and very talented photographer Anna Beaudry, to take photos of all the homes I…
The Best Trim Colours – NOT Cloud White!
11/01/2008Thank you to Brett Walther at Style at Home for including this post, The Best Trim Colours – NOT Cloud White, in your blog on December 16, 2008! I’m sorry if I have just killed your ‘go-to’ trim colour, but I truly think Cloud White oc-130 is the most overrated trim colour of all time….
Effect of Natural Light Exposures on Colour
11/01/2008Metamerism: When 2 items look the same under one light source such as daylight, but change dramatically when viewed under a different light source such as incandescent lighting. Northern Exposure adds blue to a colour; East adds green; South adds yellow-white and washes out colour; while West adds Orange. This is an image (immediately below)…
Colour, fundamentally, can only be described in three ways, it’s always either: Light or Dark, Clean or Dirty, Cool or Warm, period. And, it’s the clean/dirty shift that causes the most disharmony in a space, it mostly doesn’t work which is what I also teach my students. One of my other students was recently in…
Happy Halloween
10/31/2008My sister Elizabeth went to the Pumpkin Patch in Abbotsford this week with my sweet little baby nephew and she said he loved every minute of it! Especially the slide! While you’re here, subscribe to this feed so you don’t miss out! If you would like your home to fill you with happiness every time…
Box of Knowledge
10/31/2008Welcome to Colour me Happy! I just discovered the world of blogs about six months ago. I was looking for a fabric site and stumbled upon materialgirlsblog and got completely hooked! I’ve learned so much more about decorating, colour and design by reading all my favourite blogs so I thought it was time I jumped…
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