Flowers … as a main dish!

Photo by Montreal Photographer Amélie Cousineau

We thought we needed to encourage people to use different, unthought-of corners in their homes and decorate them with flowers to bring them to life.

Dreamy white Hydrangeas and green apples are showcased here in all their simplicity to brighten up this kitchen’s opened shelf. The plates are nice, but the flowers and apples make them even more attractive! The best thing about it is that it is so simple and inexpensive to create, a couple stems of flower, fruits and your own dishes are all you need.

Who said flowers only belonged on a dining table? Use your imagination and decorate uncommon spaces of your home with nice fresh flowers!

How To Extend Your Centerpieces

A nice way to get the illusion of a large centerpiece

Big arrangements can sometimes be an inconveniant on your table, here is a great trick to make your centerpieces look bigger without taking up all the space and leaving you with no room for your table settings.

1. Choose your main centerpiece and it’s flowers, low or high.
2. Use small (even tiny) vases with a sample of the flowers you used in your centerpiece, use candles, even accessories that match your decor and place them around your main piece, be carefull not to overdo it!
3. Set your table and you will see you will have room for your all your necessaries since the centerpiece is made of moving parts, you can always move things around to your convenience

By doing this you will extend your centerpiece and create a stunning table!

Some sketches

Pearl Lotus Flower Chandelier

Chandeliers by VivaTerra

I fell in love with these artisan handcrafted, ecological, organic and earth friendly chandeliers by VivaTerra!

These are hand-cut CAPIZ SHELLS (the outer shell of the marine mollusk, Placuna placenta, found in the shallow coastal waters of the Philippines), edged in metal, to create these blooming flower chandeliers that radiate like shimmering stained glass, lit from within. They come in two sizes to group or hang individually from the ceiling.

Can I order one please!

A Birch Tree Trunk Division in my Cousin’s Condo

An Original Room Separator: Birch Tree Troncs

My cousin just renovated her new condo and hired us to fix a little design problem she had, she needed something permanent to separate the space between her living room and bedroom which is just divided by a low wall.

Here was the challenge:

• Creating a division which still had some transparency.
• Using earth tones to match the condo’s color palette (beige, grey and cream colors)
• Creating a continuity feel for the low wall
• Finding something narrow to fit on the low wall that would still have great impact.

The solution:

We used a series of small narrow vases filled with earth tone colored river rocks to hold trunks of birch trees. It brought together the condo’s color palette.

Let me tell you she was thrilled with the results, and so were we!