Category: Question of the Week


Question of the Week: Would You Still Buy THIS Chair? Question of the Week: Is It Really Camping If You Stay in an RV?  Question of the Week: Would You Go Glamping? Question of the Week: What's Your Cottage/Camping/Cabin Must-Have? Question of the Week: Lakefront Cottage or Farm House?  Question of the Week: Three Outdoor Accessories We Love to Love...But Not Use?  Question of the Week: Outdoor Kitchen or Outdoor Pool? Question of the Week: Manual Push vs Powered Lawn Mowers -- Does Convenience Trump Green?  Question of the Week: Swimming Pools: Great for 3 Months, Bad for Resale?  Question of the Week: Where Do You Buy Your Furniture? Question of the Week: Isn't the Point of 'Outdoor Spaces' To Be... Outdoors?  Question of the Week: Are "Dad Chairs" Extinct? Or Are Dads Still Sitting in Them? Question of the Week: What Would You Choose for a Backsplash? Tri-Coloured Glass Mosaic?  Question of the Week: Have You Picked Furniture Out Of the Garbage? Look What I Found! Question of the Week: What's In Your Garden? Show and Tell Us! 
 
Aug
30

Question of the Week: Would You Still Buy THIS Chair?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 8/30/2010 5:24:00 PM
It's the Mid Mod icon: the Barcelona Chair . I don't know if I really need to say much... IS IT OVER??? What if you got one for free? Would you sell it and buy something you liked better? I think I would... (Mies van der Rohe just shot me the evil eye
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Aug
23

Question of the Week: Is It Really Camping If You Stay in an RV?

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Posted by Mia Rodak 8/23/2010 4:45:00 PM
Photo courtesy of Airsteam.com Thanks in no small part to the hit Canadian cult show The Trailer Park Boys , RVs and trailers certainly have a developed a reputation as being not-so-classy, but the truth is when camping , what could be classier than not
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Aug
16

Question of the Week: Would You Go Glamping?

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Posted by Vanessa 8/16/2010 12:43:00 PM
Glamping in Ontario's Boreal Forest with Wild Exodus If you haven't heard of glamping , it's basically glamorous camping , combining the great outdoors with all the luxuries of home — and more. Think tents, yurts and caravans outfitted with actual beds,
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Aug
09

Question of the Week: What's Your Cottage/Camping/Cabin Must-Have?

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Posted by Alicia Cox 8/9/2010 1:40:00 PM
Everyone has their own idea of outdoor vacationing (which is the blanket term I'm going to use for going to the cottage, lake , camp, cabin, etc. -- I do love how regional the term is!). Whether you're sleeping in a tent or a bunkie , eating under the
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Aug
02

Question of the Week: Lakefront Cottage or Farm House?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 8/2/2010 9:33:00 AM
We sent July off with a wrap-up post and welcome (not really -- too soon!)) August with our love for that last jaunt to a recreational property . Sounds so official. But that's what they are, aren't they? Not quite vacation properties, because to those
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Jul
26

Question of the Week: Three Outdoor Accessories We Love to Love...But Not Use?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 7/26/2010 1:54:00 PM
Pottery Barn ; ElitePicnicBackpacks blog ; RugsDirect blog We blog our hearts out about these very pretty outdoor accessories every summer, but in all honesty -- and the decor gods may strike me tasteless (ha!) where I sit -- how many of us have actually
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Jul
19

Question of the Week: Outdoor Kitchen or Outdoor Pool?

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Posted by Vanessa 7/19/2010 1:39:00 PM
Today marks the beginning of our two-week Outdoor Entertaining special on both Style Sheet and the foodnetwork.ca blog! So tune in for tips, ideas and to share your opinion on how best to party this summer. On Friday I wrote a post about the luxury of
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Jul
12

Question of the Week: Manual Push vs Powered Lawn Mowers -- Does Convenience Trump Green?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 7/12/2010 10:05:00 AM
Grass lawns aren't great for the environment (I bow my head in shame having recently re-sodded my lawn.) Opposing studies have played tug of war with lawn facts, with disheartening emissions studies finally neutering the argument that a grass lawn makes
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Jul
05

Question of the Week: Swimming Pools: Great for 3 Months, Bad for Resale?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 7/5/2010 2:42:00 PM
Well, for three months in Ontario anyway... (Maybe four months in Vancouver?) I've always had mixed feelings about swimming pools . I grew up in an apartment building with a pool, and no matter how hot it got, I couldn't shake the horrid image of that
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Jun
28

Question of the Week: Where Do You Buy Your Furniture?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 6/28/2010 3:18:00 PM
Maybe I think this because I work in the field, but it seems that more and more people -- non-industry folk, that is -- are redecorating their places. Maybe people have been a bit crazed about getting into the real estate market, and as such are either
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Jun
21

Question of the Week: Isn't the Point of 'Outdoor Spaces' To Be... Outdoors?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 6/21/2010 1:32:00 PM
Take It Outside, Season 3 My colleague Jessica (of Bargain Saturday fame) and I often remark on how elaborate outdoor design has gotten. Don't get us wrong, we love watching the spectacular transformations on shows like Take It Outside and The Style Dept.
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Jun
15

Question of the Week: Are "Dad Chairs" Extinct? Or Are Dads Still Sitting in Them?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 6/15/2010 12:44:00 PM
La-Z-boy through the ages (clockwise from the top); 1950s prototype, TheBSReport blog; 1970s prototype, Morgan.co.nz ; a contemporary suped-up prototype, JerkMag blog; 'Jason' rocker/recliner, one of the most popular models, WestDawson.com . I'm a day
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Jun
07

Question of the Week: What Would You Choose for a Backsplash? Tri-Coloured Glass Mosaic?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 6/7/2010 2:15:00 PM
"Erez" tile by Walker Zanger My neighbours -- the same, badgered neighbours who've been dragged all over this blog -- are nearing completion of their enviable first-floor reno. The other day I was over there snooping, and saw a pile of backsplash tile
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May
31

Question of the Week: Have You Picked Furniture Out Of the Garbage? Look What I Found!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 5/31/2010 1:54:00 PM
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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May
24

Question of the Week: What's In Your Garden? Show and Tell Us!

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Posted by Alicia Cox 5/24/2010 9:30:00 AM
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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