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Watch: Installing Balcony Floor Tiles -- There's Still Time Top 6 Friday: Contemporary Kitchen Island Ideas Real People Living in Condos: Finding the Perfect Kitchen Island Bargain Saturday: An Outdoor Bar Real Estate: Waterfront Property: What $400k Buys You in BC, Ontario and PEI New & Now: 3 Cool Decor Finds Shop Watch: Vancouver's Wow Interiors Gets More Wows Splurge vs Steal: Sale Alert! Don't Snooze on These Hammocks Kim Vallee is Back on Style Sheet: Office Desks for Small Spaces Gallery Bargain Saturday: Antique Fair Finds -- I Got Me Some Grain Sacks  Question of the Week: Where Do You Buy Your Furniture? Real People Living in Condos: Yes You CAN Have a Custom Closet Splurge vs Steal: The Seagrass Chair of the Season Top 5 Friday: Backsplashes, Part II Question of the Week: What Would You Choose for a Backsplash? Tri-Coloured Glass Mosaic?  
 
Sep
02

Watch: Installing Balcony Floor Tiles -- There's Still Time

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 9/2/2010 5:40:00 PM
Dave Spiers, our installer, of Designer Deck Inc. Earlier this summer I did a post on outdoor flooring . In it, I derided a colleague for having a most repelling AstroTurf disaster cladding her ample condo balcony , which essentially precluded her from
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Aug
13

Top 6 Friday: Contemporary Kitchen Island Ideas

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Posted by Guest Blogger 8/13/2010 9:12:00 AM
Our modestly sized condo loft conversion (at just over 600 square feet) has given us a number of good challenges to work through in our brief stint as home owners. At approximately 10 feet long and a stove deep, our kitchen is barely usable in terms of
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Aug
12

Real People Living in Condos: Finding the Perfect Kitchen Island

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Posted by Guest Blogger 8/12/2010 12:48:00 PM
With a loft/condo of a little over 600 square feet, adding a chef kitchen may not be the best use of space. Sadly, I understand, but for an enthusiastic home cook this is an obvious dilemma. The first glance at the floor plan of my new home was disgruntling.
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Jul
31

Bargain Saturday: An Outdoor Bar

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Posted by Vanessa 7/31/2010 11:30:00 AM
D.O.T. Furniture Copper Teak Tea Trolley , on sale for $186; PC Classico glasses, $2.99 - $3.49 I love a mojito or even a pitcher of sangria in the summer and I hate for my hosts to have to run into the house to refill my glass. So I think all yards worth
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Jul
21

Real Estate: Waterfront Property: What $400k Buys You in BC, Ontario and PEI

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Posted by Guest Blogger 7/21/2010 4:25:00 PM
We Canadians are lucky to have an incredible amount of water ; from the Pacific to the Atlantic, to the Great Lakes and the not-so-great lakes in between. Of course everyone wants a gorgeous waterfront property , but how many of us can afford to basically
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Jul
20

New & Now: 3 Cool Decor Finds

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Posted by Nadine Sharon Anglin 7/20/2010 12:04:00 PM
Soundscreen Design Poster Frames for the Indecisive Set As the rule goes, once you pass the age of majority you must frame your posters. Only teens thumbtack Starry Night reprints to the walls. Don’t agree? Then I’ll never look at your walls again. Never.
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Jul
14

Shop Watch: Vancouver's Wow Interiors Gets More Wows

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Posted by Guest Blogger 7/14/2010 4:49:00 PM
One of Vancouver’s favorite vintage furniture and home accessories stores has moved-on-up to the west side. Wow Interiors closed the doors of its downtown Pender Street location and opened up a shiny new shop in Kitsilano on 4th Avenue between Pine and
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Jul
06

Splurge vs Steal: Sale Alert! Don't Snooze on These Hammocks

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 7/6/2010 6:30:00 PM
Crate & Barrel; Canadian Tire There is arguably nothing better than lounging outdoors on a beautiful summer's day. Taking in some well-deserved R&R, curling up with a good book while feeling the warm breeze…oh how I love summertime! And really,
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Jul
06

Kim Vallee is Back on Style Sheet: Office Desks for Small Spaces

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 7/6/2010 3:29:00 PM
Sometimes people lose touch -- it happens. Well we weren't at all happy to lose touch with one of Canada's most respected design bloggers, Kim Vallee, of At Home with Kim Vallee , and so she's back! We've asked Kim to do a monthly trend round-up for us
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Jul
03

Gallery Bargain Saturday: Antique Fair Finds -- I Got Me Some Grain Sacks

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 7/3/2010 9:41:00 AM
I know that ' antiques ' and ' bargains' in the same sentence is a bit of a stretch but you know I'm bad at bargains. Point is, you go looking for a bargain, and bargaining is something you do at antique fares, so I think I'm ok. Ontario's big mother
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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
25

Real People Living in Condos: Yes You CAN Have a Custom Closet

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Posted by Guest Blogger 6/25/2010 4:30:00 PM
The "Before" The first time I laid eyes on the two little closets that were to hold all of our things, I began daydreaming of elaborate closet configurations and cubbies. A self-proclaimed clutter-phobe, I need everything to be tucked away neatly into
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Jun
22

Splurge vs Steal: The Seagrass Chair of the Season

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Posted by Guest Blogger 6/22/2010 5:58:00 PM
There are countless ways in which we can all contribute to helping our environment . When it comes to design, this translates into a common desire to bring the outdoors in and indoors out, and embrace the natural elements in our surroundings. To that
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Jun
11

Top 5 Friday: Backsplashes, Part II

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 6/11/2010 9:49:00 PM
This week's Question of the Week struck a nerve. I asked what you would do for a backsplash if you had your way, and in the same breath slighted a long-time favourite: tri-coloured glass mosaic tile. In a word: I'm over it, no longer a fan. Many of you
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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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