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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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5 Ways You Can Use Our Luxury Design Consultation

Our Luxury Design Consultation is meant to benefit you as much as possible, meaning that the meeting process and topics of discussion are customized to what you are needing! You will receive up to 2 hours of our undivided attention, and there are a variety of ways that you can use this time and we believe that it is worth every penny.

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Green is the New Grey

Grey has been a very popular colour for quite some time. It’s the go-to colour for refreshing and updating walls, and for using on neutral furniture pieces. And while it’s still a great colour, the trends have shifted to warmer, earthy tones like shades of khaki and terracotta. Sage green is another widely popular colour (and a personal favourite of mine). It feels timeless and fresh all at the same time.

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Adding Summer Curb Appeal to Your Home

When the warm summer months hit, a lot of us find ourselves turning our attention to the exterior of our homes. Whether you want to create an outdoor oasis in your backyard or would rather spruce up your front porch to enjoy, summer is the perfect time to do some updates to the exterior of your home to improve the curb appeal. While we are interior designers, we can also help with improving the exterior!

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How To Decorate With Houseplants

Incorporating greenery into the design of a space has become a huge trend in recent years, but for those of us plant-lovers out there, we’ve known for a long time that plants make an interior better! While plants are “on trend”, they are, of course, also a timeless way to style a space. The benefits of plants include improving oxygenation, filtering the air, reducing stress and improving mood, and of course, looking beautiful.

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The Impact of Grout Colour

An often overlooked design element when tile is involved is the colour of the grout. This seems like a small detail, but with experience you learn that this small detail (as well as others) makes a big impact on the look of the space! Take a look at the photo below from Merola Tile- this is the same tile shown with four different colours of grout. They each look completely different!

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All About E-Design

With the world changing a lot this year, businesses have had to adapt and offer more online services. Interior design is no exception! E-design is a luxury interior design service that you can access from the comfort of your own sofa. It’s also a more affordable approach to design.

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