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I would like to share with you another shopping find. It is called Drapery King Toronto and here is the link. http://www.draperypanelstoronto.com/ They have all kinds of window treatments, custom and ready made draperies as well as blinds and drapery hardware. The website is very informative and easy to use. Most people want a nice [...]

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Why are my cushions always on the floor???? There is a real gender thing going on with the decor cushions! Try as I will, my carefully arranged  ‘decorator’ cushions  always end up on the back of the sofa,  on the floor beside the sofa, UNDER the bed, piled in a corner, dropped behind the intended [...]

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Stop the presses! I just found a new kind of wallpaper that doesn’t use glue, it is a peel and stick that comes off as easy as pie without harming the paint. There is no glue, no mess and no damage to the wall. Every order is custom sized to fit your wall, so it [...]

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Summer Spruce Up! If you want to add a little (or a lot) of punch to your room, create a feature wall! If your room does not have a real focal point, a feature wall will create one. You can do this quite easily and economically by painting or wallpapering one wall only in the [...]

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Easy DIY Blinds for Your Front Porch These roll up blinds make your south or west facing porch a lot more comfortable to sit on on hot summer afternoons. They add shade to the front wall of your house too, which helps reduce the heat inside your home and your (scary) air conditioning electric bill!! [...]

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What ever Happened to Great Table Lamps? Way back when, you could buy nice, big, decorative table lamps easily. Furniture stores were filled with them, there were lots of chain stores that  specialized in lighting only, not just ones that are few and far between, even in densely packed urban areas.  Now all you see [...]

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Do Yourself a Favour!! There is one BIG tip that I give every one of my Do-It-Yourself Renovation Clients! This will save you many hours to weeks of frustration and living in Renovation Hades. Pay attention!!!!!! Do NOT start the demolition phase of your renovation UNTIL you have collected everything that you are going to [...]

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Answers to Various Drapery Questions Everyone seems to want to know how to hang flat, store bought drapery panels so that they don’t look like flat, store bought drapery panels!!! I gave you some advice/instructions in previous articles (see category ” Drapery Panel Problems”) and here are some more! Using Clip Rings on a Decorative [...]

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BANISH the WINTER BLAHS It is the depths of February and to a Canadian that means cold, snow, dark, dreary, and depressing! Even the winter sports enthusiasts can get depressed by the short and often dreary daylight hours. Give yourself a lift!. This spring the hot colour trend is for vibrant fruit colours! Splash some [...]

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Ready Made Planter & Hanging Basket Fixes In all the Garden Centres these days, there are plenty of beautiful, well started hanging baskets and planters. They look gorgeous, big and full often with a large variety of plants in them. So you spend a lot of money and buy a bunch of them only to have [...]

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