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Achieve Effortless Elegance with Transitional Design

balance of timeless elegance and contemporary simplicity, creating a space that feels effortlessly stylish and inviting. At Marianne Elizabeth Design, we’ve crafted an expertly curated Transitional Design Board to take the guesswork out of decorating. With a sophisticated color palette, furniture recommendations, chic décor, and expert styling tips, you’ll have everything you need to create a cohesive, polished look—without the stress!

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Transform Your Space with Ease: Introducing Our Interior Design Boards

Just moved into a new home or looking to refresh your space? Decorating doesn’t have to be overwhelming! Our Interior Design Boards offer an effortless way to create a stylish, cohesive home—without the stress. At Marianne Elizabeth Design, we provide expertly curated Design Boards tailored to your style, complete with a visual concept, shopping list, color palette, and professional styling tips. Whether you're starting from scratch or upgrading your décor, our boards take the guesswork out of design, saving you time and money while ensuring a polished, designer-approved look.

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Transitional Design: Where Elegance Meets Modern Comfort

Struggling to choose between classic elegance and modern simplicity? Transitional Interior Design is the perfect blend of both, creating a timeless, sophisticated home that feels warm, inviting, and effortlessly stylish. At Marianne Elizabeth Design, we love layering soft color palettes, rich textures, and a mix of traditional and contemporary elements to craft refined yet livable spaces. From structured furniture to statement lighting, transitional interiors offer the ideal balance of comfort and sophistication.

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Why Hiring an Interior Designer is the Best Decision You'll Make This Year

Transform Your Home with Expert Interior Design in Airdrie

Looking to elevate your Airdrie home with thoughtful and timeless interior design? At Marianne Elizabeth Design, we specialize in creating beautiful, cohesive spaces tailored to your lifestyle. With over 15 years of experience, we bring expertise, creativity, and a passion for design to every project—whether it’s a single room refresh or a complete home transformation.

Our approach focuses on thoughtful color palettes, personalized details, and timeless design elements that reflect your story. From cozy basement retreats with rich, moody tones to airy main floor living rooms with elegant finishes, we ensure your home feels unified and balanced.

Based in Airdrie, we understand the unique needs of homeowners in this area and strive to bring warmth, sophistication, and functionality to every space we design. If you're searching for "Airdrie interior design" or wondering how to create a harmonious home that stands out, we’re here to help.

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Designing a Harmonious Home in Bayside, Airdrie

Transform Your Home with Expert Interior Design in Airdrie

Looking to elevate your Airdrie home with thoughtful and timeless interior design? At Marianne Elizabeth Design, we specialize in creating beautiful, cohesive spaces tailored to your lifestyle. With over 15 years of experience, we bring expertise, creativity, and a passion for design to every project—whether it’s a single room refresh or a complete home transformation.

Our approach focuses on thoughtful color palettes, personalized details, and timeless design elements that reflect your story. From cozy basement retreats with rich, moody tones to airy main floor living rooms with elegant finishes, we ensure your home feels unified and balanced.

Based in Airdrie, we understand the unique needs of homeowners in this area and strive to bring warmth, sophistication, and functionality to every space we design. If you're searching for "Airdrie interior design" or wondering how to create a harmonious home that stands out, we’re here to help.

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HIRING A DESIGNER FOR YOUR NEW BUILD

Why we always recommend hiring a designer for your new build! Read all about our reasons and experience why this is always a good idea from both the clients side and the builders side.

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Why Full-Service Is So Important For Renovations

When it comes to renovations, there are many moving parts that contribute to a successful end-result. If those “moving parts” aren’t scheduled efficiently, it can result in extra costs and a much longer timeline. Unless you have a lot of time to spare, or are efficient in the home renovations industry, hiring a designer to execute & project manage the renovation is so important to make the renovation run smoothly.

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When & How To Use Dark Paint Colours

You probably always hear that if you want a room to be bright and spacious, that you should paint the room a light colour. While this is true in many cases, there are situations where a dark colour can enhance the space and also make it feel spacious! Dark colours can cause edges of the room to blend together, giving the illusion of more space.

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Updating a Kitchen For Under $10,000

We sometimes get requests from clients to help them renovate their kitchen without doing a full gut. To keep costs down, they often ask what can be done to reuse some of the existing elements and work within the existing footprint. We recently finished up a couple kitchen facelifts that meets this criteria, so we wanted to share this process with you!

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How to Style Shelves

Styling shelves is really both a science and an art. While I admit that some people have an eye for it and some just don’t, there are still tips & tricks that anyone can learn to improve the styling of their home! In this post, I go over my best tips on how to style shelves, and I hope it will provide some helpful insight!

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Making Your Home Your Retreat

Our homes are supposed to be our safe space, a retreat from the hard things of this world. A place where we feel comfortable, relaxed, refreshed, and completely ourselves. Interior design plays a crucial role in whether you enjoy being in your home and whether it works for you. Interior design not only determines whether your home is a beautiful reflection of you, but also whether it is functional and serves your needs.

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How to Choose the Right Shade of White (and the Whites We Used in 2021!)

Who doesn’t love a white kitchen? Ok, maybe not everyone, but while some may find them boring, a white kitchen is a classic beauty that will probably always be a favourite for many people. Not only are white kitchens loved, but many people are loving white walls throughout their homes these days. It provides a fresh and modern backdrop for a minimalist style to pop.

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