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Top 5 Friday: Hostess Gifts to Get You Through the Holiday Party Circuit Book Review and Giveaway: Chicago Spaces and Big, Easy Style Holley & Gill's Design Reading List: 2 New Luscious Decor Books Book Giveaway: Fresh American Spaces by Annie Selke Book & Giveaway: Living with Colour Gorgeous Book & Giveaway: Living Modern: The Sourcebook of Contemporary Interiors Book Giveaway: No Guff Vegetable Gardening -- If THIS Doesn't Sway You, You're Lost Giveaway Plus Great Organizing Tips for your Closet, Front Hall and Home Office Book: Undecorate by DwellStudio's Christiane Lemieux Book and Giveaway: Perfect Table Settings -- And not a Day Too Soon! Book and Giveaway: The Essential Guides: Small Spaces, Kitchens, Bathrooms and Storage Who Is The Selby? World Sensation Interiors Photographer Comes to TO  Book and Giveaway: Alabama Studio Style -- Includes Pull-Out Stencil and Sewing Patterns!  Book: My Mom's Thoughts on Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts Book Giveaway: New Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques 
 
Dec
16

Top 5 Friday: Hostess Gifts to Get You Through the Holiday Party Circuit

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Posted by Jessica McLaughlin 12/16/2011 10:15:00 AM
Picking up a bottle of wine is easy, and yes, completely acceptable as a hostess gift . What host/hostess doesn’t love an extra bottle when large groups of family and friends descend on their homes for one of many holiday get-togethers? But, let’s face
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Dec
06

Book Review and Giveaway: Chicago Spaces and Big, Easy Style

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Posted by Alicia Cox 12/6/2011 2:54:00 PM
If there's one gift that fits perfectly into the "something I want but don't want to spend my own money on," it's design books . They look good, they're full of gorgeous photos and they offer countless inspiration. But, they're often expensive. (Groceries
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Sep
27

Holley & Gill's Design Reading List: 2 New Luscious Decor Books

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Posted by Guest Blogger 9/27/2011 12:49:00 PM
Now that we've made it past the fist day of school, met our classmates, marked up that new notepad and dulled that freshly sharpened pencil, it's time to hit the books ! Grace Bonney from Design*Sponge and Holly Becker from Decor8 are two extremely talented
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Sep
20

Book Giveaway: Fresh American Spaces by Annie Selke

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Posted by Alicia Cox 9/20/2011 1:01:00 PM
As much as we love having beautiful decorating books sent to us, we know it's our duty to send them back out into the world -- and to you, our readers! Today's giveaway is a gorgeous and inspiring coffee table book by home decor doyenne Annie Selke called
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Jul
12

Book & Giveaway: Living with Colour

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Posted by Vanessa 7/12/2011 3:55:00 PM
With all the excitement surrounding the Royal Couple , all things British have become quite chic on this side of the pond and interiors are no exception. Welcome Farrow & Ball's Living with Colour , written by Ros Byam Shaw. Now a freelance writer,
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Jun
28

Gorgeous Book & Giveaway: Living Modern: The Sourcebook of Contemporary Interiors

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 6/28/2011 5:21:00 PM
What does ‘Modern' really mean? Very many things, I'm afraid. You can try and convince your fatigued brain that all that lofty design talk such 'form vs function', 'minimalism', and my personal favourite, 'vernacular', is baloney, but alas, it all helps
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Apr
14

Book Giveaway: No Guff Vegetable Gardening -- If THIS Doesn't Sway You, You're Lost

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 4/14/2011 3:03:00 PM
I see these books and my impulse is to admit defeat: I am hopeless in the garden. But after I sit with the idea, I realize my household is not completely ignorant of backyard vegetable gardening . My husband plants a little patch of arugula and chives
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Mar
24

Giveaway Plus Great Organizing Tips for your Closet, Front Hall and Home Office

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Posted by Vanessa 3/24/2011 7:42:00 PM
Julie Subotky can tell you how to get rescued from a desert island, how to curb your chocolate addiction and how to get out of a speeding ticket. She's the CEO and owner of Consider It Done, a personal concierge company that deals with all kinds of problem-solving
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Mar
17

Book: Undecorate by DwellStudio's Christiane Lemieux

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 3/17/2011 4:29:00 PM
The eclectic mix defines our era of interior decorating. Why then, is it so hard to define what the eclectic mix actually is? If I have to find myself searching for words, wildly gesticulating and naming every iconic piece of furniture throughout the
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Dec
08

Book and Giveaway: Perfect Table Settings -- And not a Day Too Soon!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 12/8/2010 3:32:00 PM
The Stats Title: Perfect Table Settings by Denise Vivaldo Price: $29.95 Availability: Amazon.ca /Majour book stores The Book The "Bouquet"; "Pope's Hat", from Perfect Table Settings . Who ever said napkin folding is dead? Well it wasn't us! We're fascinated
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Sep
21

Book and Giveaway: The Essential Guides: Small Spaces, Kitchens, Bathrooms and Storage

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 9/21/2010 9:27:00 AM
Terence Conran , a British multidisciplinary design savant who's been an industry leader since the 1950s, has reached his edifying years. The man who, in addition to being a designer, wields numerous London restaurants, an architecture firm and the Provost
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Jun
17

Who Is The Selby? World Sensation Interiors Photographer Comes to TO

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 6/17/2010 1:19:00 PM
Todd Selby at Holt Renfrew , photographed by Jennifer Myers . This past Wednesday, Canada’s most lavish retailer, Holt Renfrew, opened the concourse of its Bloor Street store to the wildly popular photographer/blogger , Todd Selby . Hard to believe the
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Jun
08

Book and Giveaway: Alabama Studio Style -- Includes Pull-Out Stencil and Sewing Patterns!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 6/8/2010 9:54:00 PM
Alicia and I came across this home tour on the New York Times website, featuring a wondrous cabin/ deep-woods lair, in Seale, Alabama. The cabin was hand-built by a man named Butch Anthony, a man who takes sustainable living to a whole new level, living
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May
04

Book: My Mom's Thoughts on Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts

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Posted by Jessica McLaughlin 5/4/2010 10:42:00 AM
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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Apr
27

Book Giveaway: New Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 4/27/2010 5:39:00 PM
The Stats Title: New Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques, American Horticultural Society Price: $60 Availability: Now, in most bookstores. The Book This is the latest release from the American Horticultural Society , that gracious establishment which
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