May 2010 - Posts


HGTV.ca Original Home Tour: Emma and Myles, Toronto Question of the Week: Have You Picked Furniture Out Of the Garbage? Look What I Found! Flickr Round Up: Office Space Twitter Talk: Follow Our Hosts and a Summer Makeover Through The Ages: Did You Inherit Mom's Style?  New Shows and Seasons: Summer Schedule Starts May 31st! Top 5 Friday: Five Things to Look Out for When Antiquing  Real People Living in Condos: Choosing Condo-Sized Furniture  Makeover: From Empty Space to Outdoor Living/Dining Room For Sale: Olympic Village Condos! Design Dilemma with Scott McGillivray: Advice for a Crowded Family Room The Requirements of Accessible Living Question of the Week: What's In Your Garden? Show and Tell Us! Sarah's House 3 Marathon Today: 1pm -6pm ET Video Exclusive: Monica Pedersen on Turquoise, Glam & Her Fave Decor Style Top 5 Friday: Summer Balcony Wish List Scott McGillivray Divulges His Secret: "Fail-Safe Flipping" Modern Country: My Ensuite Bathroom Makeover: Home To Flip Basement Laundry and Bathroom New Feature: How Much Home does $500,000 Buy in BC? Compare 3 Properties Garden Porn: Photos From Our Greenhouse Tour  Splurge vs Steal: Outdoor Rugs Art for Mom's Walls: Help Pick the Right One!  Question of the Week: Boring White or Walls of Colour? See Real Facebook Debate! Outdoor Living Marathon This Sunday 1pm-5:30pm ET Trend Focus at Las Vegas Market, Episode 3: How to Tailor Glam Discussing Sarah's House 3: Top 10 Comments Top 5 Friday: 5 Decor Magazines You Need to Love Real People Reno: A New Look for an Older Condo Bathroom Makeover: Trademark Bold Wallpaper from Colin and Justin DIY Dilemma: Scott McGillivray's $20 Pendant Lamp  Discuss: Sarah's House Episode 10, Exterior/Finale, Plus A Bonus Room! Live Blogging Event: Sarah's House, Episode 10: Exterior/Finale My Mom's Favourite Feature in her House Question of the Week: Are Silk Flowers a Faux-Pas? Video Exclusive: Tommy and a Few Surprise Hosts Reveal Personal Paint Preferences Top 5 Saturday: No-Fuss Outdoor Flooring for Decks and Balconies What I Want for Mother's Day: 4 Things to Dress My Nest Bargain Saturday: Plates as Art Gift Idea: Mother's Day Stocking Stuffers Modern Country: Pom Pom Birthday Party Trend Focus at Las Vegas Market, Episode 2: Jane Seymour on GLAM Splurge vs Steal: Must-Have Dining Tables Discuss: Sarah's House Episode 9, Master Bedroom Live Blogging Event: Sarah's House, Episode 9: The Master Bedroom Book: My Mom's Thoughts on Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts Spring Kick-Off Wrap-Up: Did You Miss Anything?  Video Exclusive: Trends at World Market Center Las Vegas Question of the Week: My Mom Gets A+ For Style, And Yours? Flickr Round Up: Refresh, Refurbish, Reupholster 
 

HGTV.ca Original Home Tour: Emma and Myles, Toronto

Phew! Just snuck this in before the end of the month! Welcome to the second installment of our new monthly feature, HGTV.ca Original Home Tour , in which you get to peek inside real homes of real people , not at all styled, propped or staged -- this is
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Question of the Week: Have You Picked Furniture Out Of the Garbage? Look What I Found!

So I'm jogging (HATE IT) through my neighbourhood, and from afar I spot a chair that's been kicked to curb. As I approach I've already made up my mind that I am taking it home and begin to look greedily about for other scavengers who might poach my find
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Flickr Round Up: Office Space

Work = desk , yes, but it doesn't have to feel like a sentence. It's how you treat the area that determines the flow and energy of whatever your industry demands, and these days, home office space can be carved out of anywhere. I'm looking for inspiration
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Twitter Talk: Follow Our Hosts and a Summer Makeover

If you're following us on Twitter @hgtvcanada , you may have noticed our makeover this week. Thanks to Jennifer Myers of the design department (and resident Real People Living in Condos guest blogger), our Twitter page is now fresh and colourful for summer.
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Through The Ages: Did You Inherit Mom's Style?

Where does our decor style even come from? Influence from peers, television, magazines and our environment, no doubt. I got the inkling to go as far back as I could in my photo album -- this was quite the hunt -- and see if I picked up any style habits
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New Shows and Seasons: Summer Schedule Starts May 31st!

While it's not technically summer until June 21 this year, our summer TV season kicks off Monday, May 31 with new shows, episodes and seasons. Let's get into, shall we? New Shows Design School : Premiering Tuesday, June 1 at 8pm ET Design School is the
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Top 5 Friday: Five Things to Look Out for When Antiquing

Antiquing season is here! Watch out rural fields, small town skating rinks and city parking lots because here comes the old stuff! I for one cannot wait. I may have let on in previous posts about my intense obsession with old stuff -- a mean habit I nurse
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Real People Living in Condos: Choosing Condo-Sized Furniture

Jennifer's Condo Our condo is loft-style in that it's open concept with high ceilings and concrete floors, but not by any accounts large. With a modest 650 square feet of indoor living space, we had to evaluate every piece of furniture on how multi-functional
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Makeover: From Empty Space to Outdoor Living/Dining Room

James and Michelle's backyard, before (the street is at the top right of the photo at left) Designer Kelly Deck 's talents are on full display in this backyard makeover from Take It Outside , season 3. She turned James and Michelle’s strip of empty, street-facing
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For Sale: Olympic Village Condos!

It was probably the biggest open house Canada has ever seen. 12,000 people toured Vancouver’s Olympic Village over last weekend, taking a peek inside the maze of gleaming new high-rises that housed 2,800 athletes and officials during the Winter Games.
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Design Dilemma with Scott McGillivray: Advice for a Crowded Family Room

Many of Scott's Income Property transformations are so appealing in their design that people have started to write in for Scott's design advice. I agree, as I often wonder myself where he gets some of his decorating savvy and ideas. Well, in truth, he's
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The Requirements of Accessible Living

My mom has been living in an accessible living complex for about eight years now. Half the units, consisting of one and two bedroom apartments plus multi-level townhouses, are wheelchair-friendly and the other half are not, which creates a mixture of
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Question of the Week: What's In Your Garden? Show and Tell Us!

Images from season 2 of Dirty Business This summer my boyfriend and I are attempting to grow green thumbs and start a garden from scratch. When Vanessa and I attended the President's Choice Lawn & Garden field trip a few weeks ago (see her greenhouse
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Sarah's House 3 Marathon Today: 1pm -6pm ET

Victoria Day is also Sarah Richardson Day on HGTV. Watch the Sarah's House Marathon today from 1pm - 6pm ET and relive all the colour, pattern, country charm, vintage finds and Sarah + Tommy hilarity. See all the episode galleries & get the shopping
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Video Exclusive: Monica Pedersen on Turquoise, Glam & Her Fave Decor Style

She is indeed tall, charming and has a perfect peaches-and-cream complexion...I shrunk a bit by her side... But we can't all be gifted thus, though I really shouldn't complain for I have been bestowed with other gifts: endless hours of perusing Las Vegas
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Top 5 Friday: Summer Balcony Wish List

Many among you may be fortunate enough to go on a lovely jaunt to your cottage or friend's cottage, but let's face it, a lot of you are like me: no cottage. Instead, I've got myself a sad outdoor space in need of some love. Actually, I have a small balcony
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Scott McGillivray Divulges His Secret: "Fail-Safe Flipping"

Don't you just LOVE it when savvy professionals answer questions with practical advice? Whether you're set to flip a house or not, I'm sure we'd all love to know what Scott McGill-a-babe has to say on the subject. He's just SO GOOD at what he does...
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Modern Country: My Ensuite Bathroom

My ensuite bathroom is a dream come true. My husband and I did a complete renovation . The previous bathroom was half the size, and about as hideous as a bathroom could get. Wasted space, zero storage, a mini single vanity, a jacuzzi tub (eww) and tiny
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Makeover: Home To Flip Basement Laundry and Bathroom

The laundry room's previous incarnation and the space to work with Peter Fallico is really maxing out the space in the second season of Home To Flip . Though the house seems small-ish from the outside, he's already managed to utilize an empty attic for
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New Feature: How Much Home does $500,000 Buy in BC? Compare 3 Properties

About a month ago, Crack Shack or Mansion , a Vancouver -based guessing game poking fun at the crazed local real estate market, went viral. A picture flashes on the screen and players guess whether the home is a) a known den of illicit drug activity or
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Garden Porn: Photos From Our Greenhouse Tour

Almost two weeks ago, Alicia and I boarded a bus in Toronto bound for Beamsville, Ontario with some of the garden industry's best writers for a day of wandering through greenhouses to learn about where President's Choice gets their flowers, plants and
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Splurge vs Steal: Outdoor Rugs

Chilewich Shag, Design Within Reach ; outdoor mat, Canadian Tire Decorating your outdoor space doesn’t just end with a bbq and some garden furniture. These days, outdoor spaces are treated more like outdoor rooms, with designers striving to create outdoor
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Art for Mom's Walls: Help Pick the Right One!

Existing wall art (above) Option 1 Option 2 Continuing on the mom train, I bring you the latest from my parents' house. I say "mom's walls" in the title because my father always gets vetoed on anything he has to say, and trust me, it's not for nothing.
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Question of the Week: Boring White or Walls of Colour? See Real Facebook Debate!

It couldn't have turned out better: I live and breath all decor/design/renovation concerns, and it just so happens that my next-door neighbours are extensively reno'ing their home. I've aired out several of their real-life issues here on the blog ( first
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Outdoor Living Marathon This Sunday 1pm-5:30pm ET

Watch all Sunday long as Jamie Durie of The Outdoor Room transforms outdoor spaces all over the world. With his team of experts, you are guaranteed a breathtaking transformation. This Sunday's marathon promises tips for colorful gardens, beautiful scenery
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Trend Focus at Las Vegas Market, Episode 3: How to Tailor Glam

Christopher Guy furniture In our previous installment of HGTV.ca's escapade to World Market Center Las Vegas , we looked at ultra glam -- as envisioned by actress and designer Jane Seymour and furniture designer Michael Amini. It was silks and satins,
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Discussing Sarah's House 3: Top 10 Comments

This may be our last Sarah's House post for a while...but then again, you never know when our #1 host will pop up again here on Style Sheet . Over the past two and a half months, we've all been a little Sarah crazed, starting with our March Makeover Madness
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Top 5 Friday: 5 Decor Magazines You Need to Love

Magazines cannot die. I will not listen to the naysayers who forecast doom and gloom for the magazine world. I still LOVE leafing through a fresh stack of interior gorgeousness, and I'm online all day long (could have found most of it on the mag's website.)
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Real People Reno: A New Look for an Older Condo Bathroom

It's funny, we see so many renos of houses but not so many of condominiums . Perhaps because the focus is usually on preconstruction condos? Who knows. But be that as it may, older condos get sold and resold -- especially in bigger cities -- all the time,
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Makeover: Trademark Bold Wallpaper from Colin and Justin

If you have ever watched an episode of Colin and Justin 's Home Heist , you know that the boys love to decorate walls with either one bold colour or a bold pattern — sometimes both. While it usually makes for eye-catching images and great television,
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DIY Dilemma: Scott McGillivray's $20 Pendant Lamp

Today is a very special edition of Design Dilemma, in which we not only get a question answered, but get the lowdown on how to make a very cost-effective lamp ! Scott McGillivray has been on the case of your Design Dilemmas for the past month, and I can't
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Discuss: Sarah's House Episode 10, Exterior/Finale, Plus A Bonus Room!

Five months, 1500 square feet of added space, over $1.2 million spent in total...what did you think of the finale , Sarah's House fans? Do you agree with Tommy that the farmhouse is Sarah's "best work ever"? I have to admit, I wasn't sure she would turn
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Live Blogging Event: Sarah's House, Episode 10: Exterior/Finale

Say it isn't so! Sarah's House fans, we've come to the end of season 3 and boy, did it fly by fast! In tonight's episode , Sarah recaps all the rooms and has a walk through with four real estate agents to find out how much the house is worth. We also
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My Mom's Favourite Feature in her House

For Mom Month, I asked mine what her favourite feature is in her house. My mom chose one of the home's oldest features almost immediately. My parents' house was built in 1918 and stayed in the same family until my parents bought it in the '70s. My mom's
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Question of the Week: Are Silk Flowers a Faux-Pas?

From left: Real Touch Mini Cymbidium Orchid Spray ; Large Tulips ; Tulips , all Flowers By Design I keep hearing people say how lifelike the newest generation of silk flowers is and how it's perfectly acceptable to display good quality fakes instead of
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Video Exclusive: Tommy and a Few Surprise Hosts Reveal Personal Paint Preferences

You've seen the Sarah Richardson interview Elana posted where the goddess of design discusses her new Designer Palette for Para Paints ; today watch a few of your other favourite hosts as they weigh in on some of Sarah's trademark tips and disagree on
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Top 5 Saturday: No-Fuss Outdoor Flooring for Decks and Balconies

Sorry for my tardiness! Though I live in a house, I was inspired to write on the subject because of the state of an office colleague's balcony . She lives in a great little condo, in a lovely part of the city, and she has a balcony. I saw this balcony
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What I Want for Mother's Day: 4 Things to Dress My Nest

Tomorrow I will be celebrating my third Mother's Day as an actual mother, and for the first time I feel as though I can speak with authority on the subject of 'what moms really want' . I think this is the first year that I've been able to slow down enough
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Bargain Saturday: Plates as Art

I used to have a cupboard full of mismatched plates , now I just have a few sets of hand-me-downs. All I really want to eat off is a nice set of matching dishware . But, I still love dishes and can't resist picking up something pretty. So, why not put
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Gift Idea: Mother's Day Stocking Stuffers

I wrack my brains every year, as I'm sure you do, over what the H to get my mother (and mother-in-law). This year I'm making it easy. My foodnetwork.ca counterpart, CJ and I, received some product to try from the Cucina line at Fruits & Passion. This
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Modern Country: Pom Pom Birthday Party

Meet Heather Cameron, a home stylist and our new resident country blogger. Heather will be posting crafts, decor projects and gorgeous photos from her blueberry farm in Surrey B.C. all summer long. Her first post today is about the adorable party she
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Trend Focus at Las Vegas Market, Episode 2: Jane Seymour on GLAM

We're rolling out our recent escapade to the World Market Center Las Vegas ! Monday we posted our first installment of Trend Focus , a series we put together at one of North America's largest to-the-trade furniture markets, where retailers come to see
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Splurge vs Steal: Must-Have Dining Tables

Wood + Metal = I do! When they said opposites attract they sure had it right, even in an unlikely coupling of materials. If you’re in the market for a new dining table and having a hard time finding a satisfying material and style - some may be too traditional,
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Discuss: Sarah's House Episode 9, Master Bedroom

Only one episode of Sarah's House left! What did you think of the master bedroom makeover ? There's a lot of patterns in that room, in the photo above I count six. Too much or just enough? Let's hear it Sarah fans, what say you? See the photo gallery
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Live Blogging Event: Sarah's House, Episode 9: The Master Bedroom

Since a good night's rest is the new "apple" a day to ensure you’re at maximum peak, the keeper of your resting place must be important as well. The Master Bedroom is the start and close of each day and to ensure the space is worthy, Sarah and Tommy go
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Book: My Mom's Thoughts on Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts

Quilting started out as a very personal project for my mom. After my father passed away, she stared at a closet full of his clothes for a year and had no idea what to do with them until a friend of hers suggested making a quilt . When Simple Shapes Spectacular
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Spring Kick-Off Wrap-Up: Did You Miss Anything?

You may have noticed that we've been adding a few theme posts every month and we hope you've been enjoying them so far (any thoughts, by the way?) This month is Mom Month -- in honour of Mother's Day of course -- which we kicked off with this week's Question
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Video Exclusive: Trends at World Market Center Las Vegas

There are very many fun and exciting things we the HGTV.ca team get to do, but all of it -- and this is from the heart -- is to bring you new ways in which to see to your home and garden . One such expedition was our whirlwind tour of World Market Center
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Question of the Week: My Mom Gets A+ For Style, And Yours?

Left: Elana's mom's console; right: Lizzie Bailey's console via Lonny magazine Mom Style is a phenomenon. It is. I'm sure some of you are tisk-tisking right now for my brazenly broaching this subject, but as Spring Kick-Off moves on with the end of April,
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Flickr Round Up: Refresh, Refurbish, Reupholster

This month HGTV has been focusing on green. This Flickr run, I decided to focus on a few R's of our own: refresh, refurbish and reupholster! Some of our members are consignment shopping, finding some durable, reusable pieces and bringing character into
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