Love Your Home

My blog features crafting projects, home care tips, fresh decorating ideas, and fun accessories in the market.

Fall Preview

Authors: Antonella @ LoveYourHome

Is it too early to blog about fall? The season and all of its wonderful qualities - the crisp, cool outdoor air; the warm, inviting colours of nature; pumpkin spice and apple cinnamon scents - has been on my mind for some time now.  Autumn has always been the season I look forward to the most.  When I was a studen...

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A Tall Order

Authors: Antonella @ LoveYourHome

You may have heard this before: window drapes are the finishing touch to every space.  You have definitely heard this from me before: drapes are a great way to bring in pattern and colour to a space, large or small.  Drapes also do something else that I haven't talked about before: they can help a room appear...

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Owls in Orange from Great Britain

Authors: Antonella @ LoveYourHome

Do you sometimes feel that when you fall in love with a new look that you've been decorating your home all wrong? Don't sweat it.  Mixing styles is what makes a space unique and yours.  Adding a new accessory or two that is completely unexpected and so wasn't you last year, isn't going to spoil all y...

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How to Create a Vignette

Authors: Antonella @ LoveYourHome

What is a vignette in decorating? All it is really, is a display of carefully chosen pieces that work together in harmony.  It differs from a collection of like items because a collection isn't needed to create a vignette.  Let me show you the difference:

These aqua coloured pottery set on a vintage radio...

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5 Smart Bedroom Storage Solutions

Authors: Antonella @ LoveYourHome

It doesn't matter how large or small your bedroom is, storage is key.  Even if the room was massive, you're not going to dress it with five armoires; maybe two at most.  How do you maximize storage in a bedroom? There are 5 simple solutions:

1. Buy the right furniture: bedside tables are important to have,...

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A New Place to Store Blankets

Authors: Antonella @ LoveYourHome

This curio cabinet has been a bit of a problem since the day we brought it home.  It was too good of a "steal" to pass up, but it never found a true spot in our home.  After a few moves, we squeezed it in the hallway outside the bedrooms.  Today I decided its contents didn't make any sense: my col...

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More Pyrex For My Collection

Authors: Antonella @ LoveYourHome

Another Kempenfest show, another success! I found this set of 4 Spring Blossom 1 Pyrex bowls to add to my collection:


Here is my collection thus far, which also includes 3 Bufferfly Gold bowls and 2 Friendship bowls:


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Recommended Reading: August...

Authors: Antonella @ LoveYourHome

The book I chose for this month's reading is called Natural Style (2008) by Janet Sobesky.  Back in July, I wrote a post about decorating with natural elements, which mostly covered the materials and textures needed to create that natural look at home.  You can read more about that here.  Sobesky's book...

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An Afternoon in NOTL

Authors: Antonella @ LoveYourHome


NOTL is the acronym for one of Canada's most popular tourist destinations: Niagara-on-the-Lake.  It is a popular destination for theatre, art, shopping, sight-seeing, and it is located close to many wineries that also offer tours to the public.  It is a historic site, playing part in the War of 1812 where many...

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Breathe Easy; Open the Windows

Authors: Antonella @ LoveYourHome

It feels like it's going to rain today.  I wouldn't be against it at all either.  While briefly taking a break on the balcony from activities today, I noticed the wind picked up a bit and the temperature dropped significantly.  The sun was hiding behind some pretty gray clouds. 

I decided the AC wasn't...

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