Spring Styles From the Ground Up

Bold palettes and intricate patterns are a definite must when redecorating this spring. Try refreshing a look with energizing colour pops, juxtaposing tones, savory avant-garde designs and unconventional hues that will have you falling in love with your decor all over again. 

Refresh Your Sleeping Grounds

In the design world, creating a soothing ambiance doesn’t have to be difficult. Narrow down colour selections by choosing two palettes that refresh and relax a room’s overall feel. Try floral patterns in cappuccino and mocha. These hues are perfect companions and create a harmonious duet within any living space.

Just Run with It ... 

Hallway runners can look elegant and casual. How? Select contrasting colours such as dark chocolate or black and light taupe. The dark might intimidate, but it adds a high contrast when placed against the taupe that balances and compliments the bold tone. 

Feel Blue … in a Good Way

Basic black’s a bore. Stay true to your dark side with Indigo. This innately masculine aesthetic can hit a design chord with anyone who wants a low-key, yet contemporary look. Indigo, as a colour, is versatile and as an unconventional spring shade it can truly bring modernity to a room and transform its overall look. To add a much needed hit of colour choose a rug or linens that’s softens this dark hue. 

 

 

Cranberry Crush

Colour a room pretty with a berry blast that salutes spring. Elements that balance this intense colour are neutrals such as white or beige.  To add depth to this flashy dye, texturize with a shaggy rug in a subdued shade. The powerful regal red compliments the lacklustre neutral tone and having two sophisticated palettes excites and testifies your true love for cranberry. 

Bring ‘Green’ Home

Let Mother Nature guide you in your colour quest by simplifying with a neutral-grey-than hit it with a colour pop of orange tangerine. The grey grounds as a subdued shade and balances a lively garden or cushion. Pair this avant-garde look with chic eco-friendly flooring and give your backyard a much needed lift while reducing your carbon footprint.*

*Envirotile™, a resurfacing paver, made from 100 per-cent recycled rubber tires, can be placed on any flat surface such as a deck, patio, veranda, cement and more.

 *Envirotile™, a resurfacing paver, made from 100 per-cent recycled rubber tires, can be placed on any flat surface such as a deck, patio, veranda, cement and more.

Wonderful Wall Art

It was with great sadness that we recently heard the oh so familiar croon "So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye..." unfortunately it was not coming from the seven Von Trapp children in The Sound of Music but rather we heard these sad partings from Jessica, Lemon Tree Creations blogger/creator. To remember this amazing blog, we are recapping our favourite post; giving our readers a way to recreate this…all the best to Jessica in her future endeavors!

A home-made wall treatment, that uses doormats to create art, not only customizes a room but adds a personal touch.

Erin, from Lemon Tree Creations, demonstrates her crafty skills by designing a mural-esque décor piece that transforms her living space. The oat colour chosen was a perfect contrast to the avocado stained walls. We absolutely love this idea and encourage others to take on similar projects. 

Doormat Wall Art: Lemon Tree Creations

Here are three easy steps to mimic this art-nouveaux:

1.      Choose an ornate looking doormat in a small to medium size. We suggest Multy Home’s 18x30 Wrought Iron import mat. Similar to Erin’s design, the whimsical pattern creates a focal point that lends a hand in stylizing any space in the home.

     2.     Wood or Canvas? Both are beautiful choices: canvas adds texture while wood naturally looks rustic.

     3.     Sand, stain or paint the surface than lay the mat down and spray the chosen colour on overtop. The result: a fashionable art-deco piece that will personalize and transform a room's overall look. 

Doormat Wall Art: Lemon Tree Creations

Doormat Wall Art: Lemon Tree Creations