When we think of decorating a room, we think of the basics: paint, flooring and window treatments. From there, we create a theme for the room, whether it is based on a colour, a style or an object. For walls, the usual thinking is to use paint and hang up some...
Can you imagine a popular architectural style being created as a reaction to another style? This is what happened with the Italianate style. Italianate began in England in the 19th century, spanning 1802 to 1885. It was a reaction to the harsh lines of Formalism as...
When we look back at how far we have come in terms of creating the modern home, we find appliances, designs and even rooms that we can’t fathom being without. Take the kitchen, for example. If you compare appliances and room designs of today to those 100 years ago,...
We all use bathrooms daily. In fact, it has been proven that we spend about two hours and 30 minutes each week in the bathroom. This amounts to about three months in our lifetime. If there is one place that you will, therefore, need to decorate and include a taste of...
There are a great many styles that are implemented into high-luxury homes and hotels today, perhaps one of the most prominent and pertinent is the neoclassical style. Neoclassical architecture began to emerge during the 18th and early 19th centuries and as the name...
