Let’s travel back in time for a minute...to 1974. We’re in a kitchen. The cabinets are wood, glazed orangish cedar with black iron handles. The sink is an avocado green, the refrigerator and stove follow suit. The countertops are a melange of glazed oranges, yellows and browns reminiscent of the boho pottery craze of the time. On the walls, possibly a dark beige or a buttercream wallpaper, vertical stripes, in shades of amber and spruce, laden with vines. Around the uppermost perimeter above the cabinetry, a border pattern teaming with florals, and baskets and chickens and horns of plenty and ducks and teapots and kittens with mittens.

Let us now gratefully return to the present. There was a time when certain rules applied, when “normal” was a thing and everyone wanted to be that. A time when houses, and fashion and careers and workplaces had a path that was somewhat predetermined. Lately things have changed… a whole lot.

There are some things about the past that are simply divine, a dedication to adornment, beauty, exquisite artistry and craftsmanship. The opulence and grandeur of spaces designed at such a scale and with such attention paid to materials and longevity, that one can barely imagine such indulgence being conceived of nowadays. So it’s with a discerning eye that we look to our past and select those things that speak to us, yell at us or simply touch us in a way that words can’t.

So, why not take the essence of all of these things, the good , the bad, the so bad it’s good and whip up a concoction that’s entirely new and modern?

We’ve reimagined borders. Yes, that’s right borders. Although to be fair let’s refer to them as Fine & Dandy Borders, because they are indeed both, and deserving of a new moniker.

We scoured our favourite design genres, added a dash of nostalgia, a pathological tendency toward spiffery and story telling, folded in a deep love of rich, layered, interiors, added a splash of utter disdain for rules and set about preparing a confection that would feed the soul and inspire the flights of fancy with a level of accuracy that could almost be described as scientific.

Fine & Dandy Borders are a new way to look at your space and imagine what’s possible. A wall is not just a wall, it’s a canvas. Who decided borders were reserved only for walls? Go ahead and break that rule right now, try them vertically, or on a piece of furniture while you’re at it, Go ahead, I’ll wait. Settle in for some more hysteria, like embellishing your stairs, your floor boards, your doorways, your bookcases, cabinets and mirrors...in fact feel free to abandon all reason, and stack more than one element together to create something that’s legitimately one of a kind. Think you need a professional installer for these? Wrong! Consider attempting this at 3am on your own, I certainly have. This is a whole new level of custom DIY, and while Fine & Dandy Borders are certainly exuberant, they are not at all exorbitant. A particularly compelling combo. They’re also commercial grade so your creative efforts will endure for friends and family to enjoy at length.

Forget everything you know about what can be done with wallcovering, paint and trim. Reject any rules that lead you down a path toward dreariness and beigery (we’ve made our feelings about beige very clear). It’s a new day and we’d like to offer you some goodies to make it infinitely more stunning and exponentially more you.