Michelle’s Design Centre Tips (Part 2)

Appointment #2

Bring all samples you already have with you:

• Kitchen
• Decorative hardware
• Existing colours or photos of pieces you’re bringing with you

Start with flooring

• Hardwood
• Tile
• Broadloom
• consider upgrades for main rooms & standard options for secondary rooms.
• i.e. Hardwood for living room & master bedroom, broadloom for basement & guest rooms; marble/stone for foyer, kitchen, master ensuite & powder room, porcelain for guest bathrooms

Choose countertops

• Should blend with flooring and kitchen cabinets
• Countertops are a good investment
• Make even an inexpensive kitchen look great

Choose plumbing fixtures for kitchen

• Faucets
• Sink
• Specialty upgrades such as pot fillers, garbage disposal, water filter

• In smaller homes should blend with kitchen, powder room
• Choose timeless lines
• Keep choices clean and minimal to increase visual size

4 items that are worth the upgrade:

1. Hardwood throughout (and you don’t need a vacuum!); it’s one of those things that’s expected now when you go to sell.
2. Upgrade your island. Ask them to extend your island so that you have a seating area; a much better use of space. Consider getting a ‘waterfall’ finish. Takes it up a notch, in terms of the glam factor.
3. Kitchen cabinets. Something to consider - Which direction is your kitchen facing? i.e.: is the sun hitting your cabinetry? This will help determine which finish to choose.
4. Wardrobe organizers; for the convenience factor. That way when you move it, you can easily hang everything up, instead of waiting to do that after you move in.

Michelle Mawby
Lucid Interior Design
www.lucidinteriordesign.com