*Featured Image: Contemporary Dining Room by Toronto Interior Designers & Decorators stephane chamard Looking for lighting ideas that will make your dining room stand out? Check out these 4 ideas - they'll have your dining room and the faces of your guests glowing in no time! Swing-Arm Sconce - Rather than the chandelier hanging overhead,…
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5 Home Improvement Projects with Great ROI
If you're looking to do home remodeling that you'll make your money back on, look into these 5 projects that generally have good returns: Kitchens - Balance the remodeling project between your own aesthetics and those that most buyers would like to maintain a high ROI. Additional Living Space - Increasing the square footage of your home…
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6 Basement Designs that Think Outside the Box
When looking to remodel your basement, it might be tempting to opt for traditional designs that have a wide appeal. After all, this tends to be the wiser choice as far as your return on investment, as you will be able to potentially sell your house easier and for more money due to large demand.…
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Gorgeous Glass Kitchen Backsplashes
The kitchen backsplash is a supporting aspect to your kitchen decor that can really make your kitchen unique and stand out from all others. Glass backsplashes in particularly can be a great selection. Easy to care for and available in all shapes, sizes, and colors, glass backsplashes are malleable for any decor. Let's go over…
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Northern Virginia House Painting
Results from a Recent House Painting Project in Northern Virginia When it comes to painting houses, some projects bring a high amount of satisfaction once everything is finished. Take this Northern Virginia house as an example. The entry to this beautiful home opens up into a gorgeous two-story foyer. Supported by two columns, the top floor…
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DIY Sunroom Bench
Looking to build a reading nook? This sunroom bench made from salvage is an inexpensive way to install such a place in your house! To find the salvage wood for this project, check out websites and forums on it, or search for salvage shops in your area. Salvage wood, or wood taken from dismantled buildings or furniture, is…
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The Case for Quartz
Quartz is one of the best materials on the market for countertops, for a variety of reasons. We want to go over some of those reasons so you can better understand what makes quartz such a strong choice. Beautiful Colors - Quartz comes in a wide array of gorgeous colors, including browns, creams, greens, and reds. They…
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Your Guide to Choosing the Best Kitchen Sink
When buying a new kitchen sink, you'll want to take into consideration 3 things so you get the best one for you kitchen: the material, the configuration, and the mounting. For the material, you have many options, the common of which are stainless steel, copper, granite, and ceramic. These each have relative advantages when compared to the others, in aspects…
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Bathroom Vanity Lighting
There are many ways to implement vanity lighting - but how do you go about it in the proper way? This post, we go over the basics of lighting in the bathroom and how they pertain to how you should do vanity lighting in your bathroom for maximum effectiveness. Task Lighting Transitional Bathroom by Liberty…
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How to Install a Brick Veneer
Do you have a boring, blank wall in your kitchen? Consider transforming it into a farmhouse brick wall with this DIY brick veneer project! For this project, we use a thin brick veneer instead of regular bricks. This allows us to install it without a different foundation and we get the same look as regular brick.…
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How to Bring Art Deco to the Bathroom
If you're looking at incorporating Art Deco into you bathroom renovations, we're here to help! Let's go over some ways that we can keep your bathroom contemporary but invigorate its design with pre-World War II black & white Art Deco style. First, begin with black and white pinwheel tile on the floor. This will establish the…
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Design Tools Through 3 Decades
From Microsoft Paint to iDraw, the realm of computer design tools has evolved into increasingly powerful tools in the past 3 decades. Personal computers changed the way individuals could design their home, a fact more true now than ever before. If you're curious to see the progression of design tools since 1984, check out the…
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Design Through the Decades
Art Deco of the 20s, Modernism of the 30s and 40s, Minimalism of the 60s - do you know all about these movements in home decor? If not, now might be the time to learn about them! Knowing the history of home decor helps you to design your home in a more intelligent and cohesive…
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Lighting Design of Your Home
How much have you thought about lighting in your home? Lighting can have an effect on many aspects of the home, including the mood, the atmosphere, and the presentation of the furniture and other items in your home. To produce the most effective lighting, let's explore how it can be used in different situations throughout…
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3 Online Tools for Interior Design
In the age of the Internet, there are plenty of useful tools to help you configure your home the way you want. Here are 3 of the top ones that you should be using: Pinterest - This website is a great database for mining ideas on interior design. Pictures and designs submitted by other users can…
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