Picturesque Home
Picturesque Home is a decorating company recommending furnishings and original art for principal residences, country cottages, apartments, and Airbnbs.
Clients include suburban and urban dwellers, cottagers, Airbnb hosts, and young families in Eastern Ontario. Let us adorn your abode with dining sets, bedroom sets, table linens, dishware, paintings, and more!
Our decorator has a background in Visual Art and Art History, and experience as an Airbnb host. She follows a multi-step home-decorating process inspired by leading authors, which includes decluttering recommendations.
The decorating fee is $75 per hour. Most initial consults take a couple of hours or more, plus travel time as applicable; or less, according to the client’s budget, and if no site visit is required. Consults often include the preparation of written recommendations, sometimes with links to furnishing options when needed.
Whether it’s swapping in a couple of pieces of different furniture, refining a room’s palette, selecting a piece of art, saving your best room elements from clutter, reconceptualizing existing room décor, or decorating a room from scratch, our decorator can guide you.
Reviews and Examples
I absolutely recommend Picturesque Home decorating advice and shopping services! Jennifer showed great intuition for my sense of style. She took the time to understand my ideas and needs for my home living space. I’ve worked with her twice. She found me a whole living room set, as well as sourced a perfect little vintage desk chair. And, she works fast! She provided a detailed list of options with brief title descriptions and links to online re-sellers located within the area I wanted to shop. Her information package included helpful background information about her furniture suggestions, alternative solutions for how to furnish my space, and links to new/commercial options. She stayed within my budget, and saved a tonne of time that I would have otherwise needed to spend scrolling through apps and website listings, or shopping around town.
–Lisa P., Kingston, Ontario
June has a limestone heritage rowhouse in the downtown historic district of Kingston, Ontario. She has a liking for beautiful antique wood furniture and has filled her house with it! Her ground-floor living room/dining room is a showpiece. It is a double salon whose walls are a Wedgwood blue with white trim. The wood of the antique furniture is a warm, medium brown. The textiles in the room are in muted colours of blue, grey, teal, and rose, giving a rich, gentle impression. The historical style of the space asks for a grandfather clock! Recommendations of clocks were provided to June, as well as suggestions for restoring the beautiful chaise longue and tweaking the placement of the dining set and room seating.
Lynn and David of Ottawa, Ontario, have a lovely, detached home, the heart of which is a south-facing ground-floor room, half of which is for their beautiful kitchen and the other half of which contains a cozy fireplace with two comfortable leather recliners. We analyzed this beautiful space and provided the recommendation that Lynn and David replace the bulky, oblong dining table in the kitchen nook with a smaller, round oak table to be custom-made by a regional firm to exactly match their large, oak dining set in the adjacent dining room. They proceeded on the recommendation and the result is breathtaking! Staging, colour, and decluttering recommendations were also provided to enhance the showpiece kitchen counters made of beautiful grey and off-white granite with elements of reddish-burgundy veining. The warm tones of the oak tables go beautifully with the red in the counter and rich reddish earth tone of one of the recliners.
Madeleine of Toronto, Ontario, has a lovely, detached, century home, the heart of which is the south-facing living room/dining room. We analyzed this room and made intensive colour recommendations largely anchored in the beautiful, old, brick fireplace in the room and other interior architectural elements and intended to enhance the colourful aspects of Madeleine’s stained-glass lampshades.
Jasmine of Kingston, Ontario, wanted a new wall colour in the bathroom of her granny suite. The suite was painted in the colour called Thunder, a warm medium grey, which offset the golden orange hue of the pine cathedral ceiling in the suite and its matching golden oak floors and cabinets and trim. For the bathroom, Jasmine was looking for a colour that harmonized with Thunder and had a similar effect with the golden oak vanity and trim in the bathroom, but which made the room distinct from the rest of the suite. An off-white called Dove Wing with warm and silvery undertones gives the walls a fresh appearance and fulfills Jasmine’s goal.
Jasmine also desired to update the upholstery of her granny suite’s loveseat, while preserving its beautiful lines, shape, and elegance. She wanted it to work with the adjacent Gibbard walnut dining table and tea cart and two wingback armchairs, one solid cream and the other in a dotted pewter hue. Some of Jasmine’s china included a dozen cups and saucers in the pattern called Evesham Gold by Royal Worcester, featuring a design of darkly coloured fruits and berries and gold trim. Her tablecloths were of classic white, or gold scroll, or a rich autumnal pattern, or a subdued large floral. After reviewing very many fabric samples, including synthetics and cottons, a cotton upholstery in an intense dark-plum solid was chosen for the loveseat. The cotton’s warm finish is refined.