What happens when you combine beautiful, natural tones, texture and pattern with high-performance manufactured stone? You get a material that’s a force of nature.
decor
Nine ways to add beautiful blooms to your decor
No green thumb, and no room for a garden? Here are easy ways to bring blooms and botanicals into your home decor.
When the basement becomes a gigantic storage bin, it’s time for a redesign
Transforming a junk-strewn space into a cozy family room
Form, function and fashion must converge in flooring
There are many elements — some big, some small — that must come together to make a great room. Grounding them all, as it were, is flooring.
But there are so many choices out there now — hardwood, laminate, carpet, tile — that it can be difficult to decide which one is right for which space.
For the basement makeover I did, I knew I wanted something durable, relatively affordable and easy to maintain. Naturally, I also wanted it to be beautiful.
After a lot of research, I settled on vinyl tiles (no, NOT the kind Granny had – the new generation of vinyl comes in a crazy-wide array of colours, styles, and patterns, including unbelievably realistic wood and stone effects). This short video explains why I chose vinyl tile, and how happy I am with the look.
An overworked office gets
an affordable redesign
After putting it off forever, redecorating my cramped, cluttered office turned out to be both fairly simple, and relatively inexpensive.