Mulberry's Design House

Mulberry's Design House For 25 years, Mulberry's Design House has been helping Lethbridge homeowners create spaces they truly love.

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A little Caption This Room for a Friday.This one is a dining room built for the darker, cosier half of the year. Warm li...
09/04/2026

A little Caption This Room for a Friday.
This one is a dining room built for the darker, cosier half of the year. Warm light walls with one deep, confident move, candlelight instead of anything overhead and bright, and a table that looks like it has held a few slow dinners and a lot of good conversation.
I would love to know what you would name it, or what you imagine happening around that table. Sunday roast with the whole family. A quiet Tuesday with one other person and a bottle of w**e. Homework and spilled milk and everyday life.
Tell me in the comments. I read every one, and half the joy of this page is hearing how differently we each picture home.

A small, gentle opinion as we head into September.The most personal homes I visit are rarely the most on-trend ones. The...
09/02/2026

A small, gentle opinion as we head into September.
The most personal homes I visit are rarely the most on-trend ones. They are the homes where someone kept the chair that does not match, hung the art they actually love, and stopped worrying about whether it all photographed well.
Trends are useful as a starting point. They are a poor finish line. A room built entirely around what is current tends to feel a step removed from the people in it, and it dates far faster than a room built around what someone genuinely loves.
So if you have been holding back on something because it is not the thing right now, this is your quiet nudge. Your taste is allowed to lead.
If you would ever like a second set of eyes on it, that is what the in-home visit is for. We start with what you already love.

There is a particular light in Lethbridge in the middle of September, lower and more golden, that comes in sideways thro...
09/02/2026

There is a particular light in Lethbridge in the middle of September, lower and more golden, that comes in sideways through the front windows in the late afternoon. I find myself rearranging my whole day lately just to be home for it.

It has me thinking about how a home office changes with the season too, not just the rooms we relax in. The same corner that felt bright and useful all summer wants a little more warmth now, somewhere you actually want to sit down in the dark mornings. Sometimes that is one richer colour on the chair, and sometimes it is only moving the desk to catch that low light.

I would love to hear which room in your home holds the best light this time of year. That is often the room I would start with.

As August turns into September, something shifts in how we use our homes. The evenings draw in a little earlier, the lig...
08/31/2026

As August turns into September, something shifts in how we use our homes. The evenings draw in a little earlier, the light goes long and gold, and we start spending more time indoors again. I always feel it here in Lethbridge, that quiet turn back toward home.

It is also the season I hear a particular worry the most, usually said gently. Some version of, is it really worth spending on this. The room is fine. It works.

I would gently reframe that. Your home is where you begin and end almost every day of your life. A room that genuinely supports you, that feels calm to walk into and easy to be in, is not an indulgence. It is one of the quietest, most daily forms of care there is.

You do not have to take on the whole house, and you do not have to have it all figured out first. Sometimes we begin with a single room that has never felt right. The in-home visit is made for exactly that. We sit down, we talk about how you want the space to feel, and we start there.

One of my favourite things is hearing someone say, a season or two later, that they finally love being home.

As the days get shorter, I keep coming back to how much more we lean on our homes this time of year. We cook more, gathe...
08/29/2026

As the days get shorter, I keep coming back to how much more we lean on our homes this time of year. We cook more, gather more, and spend the dark half of the day inside the rooms we already have.

It is also the season I hear a certain hesitation the most, usually said gently. Some version of, is it really worth spending on. I understand it completely, and I would offer a small reframe. The rooms you use every single evening, the kitchen you stand in, the chair you always choose, are not where a home feels indulgent. They are where it quietly gives back, every day, for years.

Worth does not mean expensive. It often means spending thoughtfully on the few things you touch and use the most, and leaving the rest alone. That is a lot of what we work out together.

If your home is asking a little more of you as the evenings draw in, that is exactly what a first visit is for. We sit down in the actual room, talk about how you want it to feel, and start from there.

As August turns into September, something shifts in how we use our homes. The evenings draw in a little earlier, the lig...
08/28/2026

As August turns into September, something shifts in how we use our homes. The evenings draw in a little earlier, the light goes long and gold, and we start spending more time indoors again. I always feel it here in Lethbridge, that quiet turn back toward home.
It is also the season I hear a particular worry the most, usually said gently. Some version of, is it really worth spending on this. The room is fine. It works.
I would gently reframe that. Your home is where you begin and end almost every day of your life. A room that genuinely supports you, that feels calm to walk into and easy to be in, is not an indulgence. It is one of the quietest, most daily forms of care there is.
You do not have to take on the whole house, and you do not have to have it all figured out first. Sometimes we begin with a single room that has never felt right. The in-home visit is made for exactly that. We sit down, we talk about how you want the space to feel, and we start there.
One of my favourite things is hearing someone say, a season or two later, that they finally love being home.

As August comes to a close, I keep returning to something I hear often, usually said quietly, almost as an apology. Peop...
08/26/2026

As August comes to a close, I keep returning to something I hear often, usually said quietly, almost as an apology. People tell me they have been meaning to reach out for months, sometimes years, but they were not sure their project was ready, or big enough, or worth my time.

I would gently set that down for you. You do not need to have it all figured out before you call. You do not need a full renovation, or a clear plan, or the right words for what feels off. Most of the people I work with begin with nothing more than a room that has never felt quite right and a wish that it did.

The in-home visit exists for exactly that moment. We sit down, we talk about what you want, and we start from there. No pressure, no assumptions, just a conversation.

One of my favourite things is hearing someone say, a few months on, that they finally love being home. That is always worth reaching out for.

I have been noticing the light lately. Late August in Lethbridge has a particular quality to it, lower and warmer than m...
08/24/2026

I have been noticing the light lately. Late August in Lethbridge has a particular quality to it, lower and warmer than midsummer, and it changes a room completely in the late afternoon. The same wall that felt flat in July suddenly has some depth to it around five o'clock.

It is one of the reasons I always like to see a home at different times of day before suggesting anything. A colour that looks quiet in the morning can turn golden by evening, and that is worth designing around rather than against.

If you have a room that only really comes alive at a certain hour, I would love to hear about it. Sometimes the light is already doing half the work, and the room just needs to catch up.

A small, gentle opinion as we head into September.The most personal homes I visit are rarely the most on-trend ones. The...
08/21/2026

A small, gentle opinion as we head into September.

The most personal homes I visit are rarely the most on-trend ones. They are the homes where someone kept the chair that does not match, hung the art they actually love, and stopped worrying about whether it all photographed well.

Trends are useful as a starting point. They are a poor finish line. A room built entirely around what is current tends to feel a step removed from the people in it, and it dates far faster than a room built around what someone genuinely loves.

So if you have been holding back on something because it is not the thing right now, this is your quiet nudge. Your taste is allowed to lead.

If you would ever like a second set of eyes on it, that is what the in-home visit is for. We start with what you already love.

08/12/2026

August in Lethbridge has a particular kind of afternoon light. It comes in low and long across the coulees, and by four o'clock it is pouring through west windows in a way it simply does not in June.

I have been noticing which rooms in this city get it and which ones miss it entirely. A great many homes here were built with the view in mind and the light almost as an afterthought, which means people end up living in the darker half of their own house without ever quite deciding to.

If there is a room you walk past more often than you sit in, it is frequently not the furniture. It is the light, and you can absolutely design around it. Different window treatments, a lamp in the right corner, a paint colour that gives back what the room is not receiving.

I would love to hear which room in your house gets the best light this time of year...

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