Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy heart day everyone! My favourite colour is red so this holiday holds a special place in my heart - no pun intended!
I met with a client over the weekend to do a decorating consultation and met her two small children. They were adorable. Her son told me he had all of his Valentine's day cards ready to hand out at school and I thought that was so cute.
I remember Valentine's day cards as a kid. I loved writing them and receiving them - especially the little boy I had a crush on!
Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
Lenore

Colour of the year!

What a day! I love it when I visit a client for the first time ... they're always so excited, so full of questions and so eager to start designing their spaces!
Walking into a clients space for the first time is very exciting for me because it always presents a new challenge. I'm always trying to create spaces that are unique and a total reflection of my client. Of course, before I can do this, it takes some time getting to know the client to be able to design if for them. Working with clients is a fun process, because we are in a way becoming friends. Clients need to feel they can trust me.
Consultations are always exciting for clients ... so many ideas are discussed and so many options revealed. We try to narrow the direction and firm up the needs for the new space. I'm so excited about this opportunity because it's a little girls room! And, we're going to use pink as our main colour inspiration - which has me extremely excited because pink is the colour of the year - well, honeysuckle to be more specific! Well, the consultation is over, it's time for me to get down to business and turn those ideas into pink reality!
Happy decorating!
Lenore

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What a week!

Well, just when I thought things would be quiet in January, there have been a number of enquiries and two consultation bookings. I think the new year does that to us. We want change and a fresh start and why not begin with our interior spaces? After all, it's where we spend so much of our time, especially during the dark, cold winter months here in Toronto.
By the way - design consultations are a great way to be inspired, get ideas and put a plan together for your next decorating project! If you want more information on a design consultation, or other types of consultations, visit my site - www.ldesigns.ca
Where did the week go? So much to organize still and prepare for the year ahead ... Well, looking forward to the weekend and then the start of another fun week!
Happy decorating!

Lenore

Behind the Scenes - Come along!

I wrote earlier about taking you along on a project with me - Behind the Scenes, so here we go!

Project - Family room, Toronto
Objective - Cozy up the space, utilize warmer colours and fabrics. Comfortable furniture.

I won't start by showing you any before photos - we'll leave that until the end. I visited my clients for the first time before the holidays and we discussed the issues with the current space and what they were hoping to achieve with the redecorating.
The current space is done is shades of blue - a bright sky blue - very cool. The clients now want something warmer to spend their evenings in after a long day at work. They'll need new furniture - sofa bed (needs to double as a guest bed), a love seat and perhaps additional seating if we can fit it into the floor plan. We'll also need to look at carpeting, tables, lighting and accessories. A full revamp!
The first thing that needs to be done is to design the floor plan - without this, nothing can be done. A floor plan is exactly that - a plan to help fit and organize things as well as provide a shopping guide.
Off I go to nail the floor plan!
Happy decorating!
Lenore