Here comes 2015!  If you’re looking for inspiration to ring in the New Year in style, check out our Pinterest board.  You‘ll find sparkling cocktails, stylish table settings, easy-to-serve food, party favours, New Year’s outfits and fun décor ideas to host the perfect party. Have fun! We wish you and your family a very happy New Year! Cheers from all of us at Under The Roof Decorating

It’s almost Santa time! As we're crossing 2014's last days off our calendars and getting ready to open tin or door number 25 of our Advent calendars, we want to wish you all a Happy Holiday Season.

If you’re hosting a brunch, lunch, dinner or any other meal during the holidays, make sure to set the right mood for the celebration with a beautifully decorated table. I guarantee that your guests will be impressed, the food will taste amazing served in such a festive presentation, and everyone will be extremely appreciative of all the effort you’ve put into creating such a cheerful ambiance. The key to a...

  This year at our office instead of going out to a restaurant to celebrate the holidays we decided to have a potluck lunch. Since our boardroom was the perfect place to have our feast, I decided to spruce up the white walls with some very cool wall art using red and white wrapping paper. Seriously, this DIY took very little time to do, barely cost anything, and delivered a...

I recently went to Montreal to visit my family, friends and, of course, my favorite furniture and accessory stores. While shopping, I couldn’t’ believe how many faux fur throws I saw. Although they’ve been on trend for quite a few years, it seems like this year they have completely invaded the market, showing that this trend is definitely here to stay a while longer. I spotted the throws artfully draped...

Years ago, my husband, kids and I traveled to Europe. Since we were traveling “light” I only bought small souvenirs from each place we visited. This one is one of my favorites. It’s a handmade ceramic tile depicting a street, where we happened to stay, in the city of Bruges in Belgium. Once back home, I looked for a ready-made frame to showcase the tile, but I simply couldn’t find...

Have you ever received a gift that was way too pretty to unwrap? Lots of thought goes into picking out the perfect gift for loved ones, so why not take the time to make the wrapping just as memorable as the gift? But wait, just because you want your package to be gorgeous, doesn’t mean that it has to be expensive. Here’s a book that we wrapped last year and...

Call me old-fashioned, but I love holiday traditions and I hope that my annual November get-together with friends to make tourtières, a traditional meat pie from Québec, will continue for years to come.  Here I am with friends (from left to right) me, Pam, Anne, Karen, Carolyn, Cathy and Shirley, celebrating another successful tourtière-making afternoon. Coming from a large French Canadian family (nine kids), on Christmas Eve my mom would put...

Hanging a mirror above a mantle is an excellent way to accentuate a fireplace as the focal point of a room. The mirror can reflect and increase the light in the room, and if you’re lucky enough to have a great view from a window that faces the fireplace, a mirror will showcase the reflection of the scenery. With that said, not everyone is lucky enough to have a great view...

Art hung along a staircase can make for a stunning look, but if you have a busy household it’s important to make sure your art is well secured to keep it from crashing on the stairs when the kids race up and down the steps. Here are a couple of tips to make this high traffic area safe: Hang your frames as flush as possible against the wall to prevent...

This is an outdoor decorating project that takes less than 15 minutes to do and is guaranteed to wow your guests every time. One winter, I hung the balls on a day when there was no snow, but by the next morning the ornaments were covered with fresh white fluffy snow which looked unbelievably Xmas-y. This crab apple tree is in my teeny tiny city backyard, and as boring as...

It's almost December 1, have you had a chance to hang your Advent calendar yet? I have. I’ve hung one at home and one at the office for big kids like me to enjoy. Now, we’ll need to figure out who gets to open a tin each day and who gets the large one on the 25th, which has a chocolate and a bonus gift card in it.