Category: Question of the Week


The Baby Room Craze: A Man Refuses to Over Spend Question of the Week: The Two-Christmas-Trees Trend -- Are You Buying It?  A Man Speaks Out: Gentlemen, Come Out of The Man Cave  Discuss: Suburban Homes Have No Character Ethnic Textiles Quiz Answers: Did You Guess Correctly?  Design School Quiz: 6 Popular Ethnic Prints -- Can You Name Them? Question/Quiz of the Week: Swan Beds -- Crazy or Awesome? And a Giveaway!  Question of the Week: How Much Would You Spend on a Crib?  Quiz: Do You Know Your Furniture Styles? 3 Pairs of Chairs: Which Are Hollywood Regency?  Question of the Week: Exposed Bathtubs in the Master Bedroom, Yay or Nay? Quiz Answers: These Bathrooms are from These Movies Quiz: Guess These Movie Bathrooms! Question of the Week: Would You Paint a Room Black? Do You Have One Already? Question of the Week: Craft Room or Home Office? Is One Replacing the Other?  Quiz Answer: THESE Canadian Items Traveled with Debbie Travis to Her London Home 
 
Feb
07

The Baby Room Craze: A Man Refuses to Over Spend

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Posted by Guest Blogger 2/7/2012 3:07:00 PM
Doesn't this just say it all: the room we had formerly set aside for our drunk friends to pass out in will soon be a room for our child to pass out in -- hopefully not drunk. Eames rocker, Paul Beer's house The guestroom has begun its transformation into
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Dec
12

Question of the Week: The Two-Christmas-Trees Trend -- Are You Buying It?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 12/12/2011 11:46:00 AM
Every year around this time we lifestyle writers wrack our brains over how to make everything old, new again. Delighting folks with fresh, new decorating ideas , year after year, is no easy task. Oh we love it well enough, but we worry -- can we pull
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Oct
24

A Man Speaks Out: Gentlemen, Come Out of The Man Cave

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Posted by Guest Blogger 10/24/2011 8:26:00 AM
Much has been written and discussed lately about the idea of the so-called ' Man Cave ’. There are websites, books and TV shows dedicated to the phenomenon (see DIY Network's Man Caves co-hosted by former NFL player Tony “The Goose” Siragusa), disambiguating
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Sep
26

Discuss: Suburban Homes Have No Character

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 9/26/2011 4:57:00 PM
Have you been watching Urban Suburban ? Brother-sister real estate duo Sarah Daniels and Philip DuMoulin try to sway clients between buying an urban or a suburban home. Sarah is all for the suburbs while Philip pushes the city. So far, the score is in
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Sep
26

Ethnic Textiles Quiz Answers: Did You Guess Correctly?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 9/26/2011 11:33:00 AM
Though I did get a bit of a smackdown for talking about textiles instead of Sarah Richardson (I love Sarah too, so I understand the frustration), my quiz last Monday did pique more than a few of you -- quite a few of you took a guess at which textile
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Sep
19

Design School Quiz: 6 Popular Ethnic Prints -- Can You Name Them?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 9/19/2011 3:00:00 PM
Is this a little too close to that nightmare you still have about not finding your exam room, back in college or university? I still have that nightmare, except it's more like a memory because I could never find where my exam was for real... But no matter.
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Aug
22

Question/Quiz of the Week: Swan Beds -- Crazy or Awesome? And a Giveaway!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 8/22/2011 1:54:00 PM
I have no logical reason for bringing swan beds -- beds shaped like swans -- to your attention today, other than I saw one while surfing the internet and knew I had to investigate. 1. A historic theme room! Is this 18th or 19th century? Are they awesome?
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Aug
15

Question of the Week: How Much Would You Spend on a Crib?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 8/15/2011 3:04:00 PM
Following my Splurge vs Steal post last week, I realized we need to face a certain fact: we are WAY overspending on baby and kids rooms . Myself included. As mentioned, I spent in upwards of $1600 on my little girl's convertible crib and change pad attachment.
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Jul
18

Quiz: Do You Know Your Furniture Styles? 3 Pairs of Chairs: Which Are Hollywood Regency?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 7/18/2011 4:31:00 PM
OK folks, I'll keep this short: all three pairs of chairs are of the Regency style of a sort, but only one pair is Hollywood Regency in particular. You guys know which pair that is? A) B) C) Which Pair of Chairs is of the Hollywood Regency Style? Related:
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Jul
11

Question of the Week: Exposed Bathtubs in the Master Bedroom, Yay or Nay?

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Posted by Alicia Cox 7/11/2011 2:52:00 PM
Bathrooms month continues on HGTV.ca, so it's with "theme spirit" that I pose the following Question of the Week : How do you feel about exposed bathtubs , like the stunning soaker pictured above, from Marriage Under Construction season 3? The master
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Jul
08

Quiz Answers: These Bathrooms are from These Movies

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 7/8/2011 12:01:00 PM
Only one of you guessed all the bathrooms from Monday's Quiz correctly! One of you was very close... (Surely many of you guessed correctly, you just didn't send me an email *tear*) I can't believe most of you were stumped on the first one! That there
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Jul
04

Quiz: Guess These Movie Bathrooms!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 7/4/2011 2:56:00 PM
Rarely do I watch a film without an obsessive eye on its locations, especially if they involve interesting interiors. I've gone to see films solely because they were filmed in beautiful and/or famous houses, such Brideshead Revisited (kinda trashy as
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Jun
27

Question of the Week: Would You Paint a Room Black? Do You Have One Already?

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Posted by Alicia Cox 6/27/2011 3:24:00 PM
Last week we published a new Original Home Tour, the Toronto home of designer Jane Hall , known for her bold colour choices and eclectic custom pieces. What really caught my eye was how she used black paint in her living room (a Sherwin Williams warm
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Jun
13

Question of the Week: Craft Room or Home Office? Is One Replacing the Other?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 6/13/2011 5:30:00 PM
Are craft rooms fast becoming a necessity? I knew this trend had passed into integral living component when model homes in suburban developments began staging craft rooms in addition to, and sometimes even in lieu of, the home office. Of course organizing
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Jun
13

Quiz Answer: THESE Canadian Items Traveled with Debbie Travis to Her London Home

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 6/13/2011 2:43:00 PM
Last week's quiz was a wild guess for those of you who didn't see this segment from ET Canada/Cheryl Hickey's visit with Brit designer Debbie Travis, during their coverage of the Royal Wedding . To the question of what two items Debbie Travis saw fit
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