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Countertop Food Safety
Our countertops are there for us through so much that we’ve decided to make a post about how to keep them clean and safe. Preparing bagged lunches for our kids, working on a home cooked meal for our families after work, and preparing massive holiday feasts. They do it all, with elegance and…
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4 Tips to Transform Your Kitchen into a Welcoming Space
The kitchen should be a central area of your home that makes your guests feel welcomed. Many older kitchens can feel closed and cramped, creating an unwelcoming atmosphere that homeowners are dying to change. Many remodels are purposely trying to expand the kitchen and create a more open space. In fact, more than half…
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Design Basics: Developing a Theme
Whatever the emotions you want to create, there will be certain colors, patterns and spacing techniques to achieve the desired effect. You know that you want your rooms and home to convey certain feelings: relaxation in the bathroom, excitement in the dining room. A great way of picking a theme is by finding an inspiration…
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Design Basics: Common Mistakes
Design is a vast world of choices, there are lists of dos and don’ts for just about everything, from which colours do and don’t go together to how couches should or shouldn’t be positioned. These various rules, and all the exceptions to the rules, the if-thens and buts; it can all feel overwhelming, especially if…
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Design Basics: The Color Wheel
Visual aesthetic is comprised of many different elements; the dimensions of the space, the spacing between objects, the number of objects and their dimensions, the use of negative space; the list goes on. Aesthetics change how we feel when we enter the room, giving the room it’s own emotional qualities, its own nature. One of…
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For Steak’s Sake
It’s May! The breeze starts blowing a little warmer on your cheeks, kids start playing out a little later on the street and you can begin to smell the delicious meals that your neighbors are cooking up in their backyards. Generally, people start grilling as soon as they can. It marks the beginning of warmer weather,…
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