October 2010 - Posts


Flickr Round Up: Stairway to Decor Social Media Saturday: Best Posts and Tweets of the Week Get Schooled Top Five: The Best Upgrades For Your Money  Happy Halloween!!! Last Minute Decorating Ideas Model Home Showdown Episode 2: First Walk-Through and Bold Paint Behind the Scenes of Disaster DIY with Bryan Baeumler  Get Schooled: How To Mix Prints Halloween Gallery: 13 Pumpkin Decorating Ideas  Question of the Week: How Do You Decorate for Halloween? Halloween Marathon Today, 6pm ET: Spooky Houses! Bargain Saturday: 3 Cheap and Cheerful DIY Candle Ideas Top 5 Get Schooled! Friday: Mispronounced Words in Decor A Real People Reno Inspired by Home to Flip: The Bathroom New Web Series Launch: Model Home Showdown Premieres Today! Quiz Answer: Colin and Justin Did Not Design THIS Room! Halloween Inspiration: Great Expectations' Miss Havisham HGTV.ca Original Home Tour: John & Juli of Mjolk, Toronto Quiz: Which of These 3 Interiors is NOT Designed by Colin and Justin?  Halloween DIY: Paper Spider Wreath Social Media Saturday: What Three Hosts Would You Invite For Dinner? Top 5 Friday: Upcycling Ideas (Start As One Thing, End As Another!) Selling New York Recap: The Crazy Things People Do to Sell Halloween: Skulls That Could Last All Year Design Dilemma with Glen Peloso: Backsplash Decisions Live Blogging Event Tonight, 9pm ET: Selling New York with Kleier Agents! Halloween: Orange is Out -- Go for This Palette Instead Question of the Week: Which Do You Prefer, Real Estate Shows or Decorating Shows? Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Marathon Today, 12 - 5pm ET Top 5 Trendy Friday: Unexpected Decor Made of Wood Selling New York Recap: Weird Loft with Pool Relisted and Mystery Canadian Investor Revealed! Makeover: Creative Basement Bachelor from Income Property Real Estate: See It and Believe It: 3 Manhattan Properties Under $500K Live Blogging Event Tonight, 9pm ET: Selling New York  Quiz Answer: Find Out Who Designed This Living Room!  Lunchtime Fix Gallery: 12 Rooms with Fall Trends In Action Trends Recap -- See What Hot Trends We've Blogged So Far... Quiz: How Well Do You Know Our Hosts? Guess and Win HGTV Swag! Social Media Saturday: Top 5 Facebook Posts 
 
Oct
31

Flickr Round Up: Stairway to Decor

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Posted by Camille Hemming 10/31/2010 2:29:00 PM
A friend of mine has recently made some alterations to her home and decided it was time to address, I would venture to say, one of the most important construction designs in a house: the staircase . It’s used everyday, with just as much, if not more traffic,
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Oct
30

Social Media Saturday: Best Posts and Tweets of the Week

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Posted by Alicia Cox 10/30/2010 9:11:00 AM
Hi folks! Getting ready for Halloween and trick or treating tonight? Maybe you're having a party? Whatever you're doing, I hope your Saturday is going swimmingly. For this week's Social Media Saturday , I gathered posts from our Facebook fan page and
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Oct
29

Get Schooled Top Five: The Best Upgrades For Your Money

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Posted by Alicia Cox 10/29/2010 4:51:00 PM
Elana, videographer Talha and I shot a lot of footage for our new web series, Model Home Showdown -- so of course we couldn't put it all into the show. During filming, we captured some great tips from designers Cheryl Torrenueva and Andrew Pike on everything
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Oct
29

Happy Halloween!!! Last Minute Decorating Ideas

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/29/2010 11:36:00 AM
I know the kiddies are excited -- mine is, for sure -- but many a parent is probably at their job right now, agonizing and fending off anxiety over what the H they're going to do in the 11th hour. Never fear -- you are not alone. AllYou.com I am a terminal
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Oct
28

Model Home Showdown Episode 2: First Walk-Through and Bold Paint

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Posted by Alicia Cox 10/28/2010 9:57:00 AM
What did you think of Episode 1 of our new web series featuring designers Andrew Pike and Cheryl Torrenueva ? They make a great team, right? In Episode 2 , the designers get to see their homes for the first time (Andrew gets a surprise in vandalism form,
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Oct
27

Behind the Scenes of Disaster DIY with Bryan Baeumler

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/27/2010 5:25:00 PM
I know he's married. And Sarah Baeumler is soooo lovely. But I'd like to just come out and say that Bryan Baeumler is kind of my boyfriend. (I'm sure many of you are rolling your eyes right now and telling me to take a number.) But really, every time
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Oct
27

Get Schooled: How To Mix Prints

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Posted by Guest Blogger 10/27/2010 11:21:00 AM
Guest blogger Andrea Ford is a home stylist and editor and restores and restyles vintage furniture for her line Re:Style. She also teaches workshops on design and refinishing and today she's going to school you on mixing prints . By Andrea Ford Add dimension
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Oct
26

Halloween Gallery: 13 Pumpkin Decorating Ideas

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Posted by Alicia Cox 10/26/2010 4:05:00 PM
Have you carved your pumpkin yet? Never fear, there's lots of ideas to choose from depending on your DIY-prowess, commitment and time. I've rounded up 13 (because it's a spooooky number) to inspire you, from pretty, non-carving golden ones to sweet, life-changing
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Oct
25

Question of the Week: How Do You Decorate for Halloween?

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Posted by Vanessa 10/25/2010 9:56:00 AM
There's less than a week until Halloween. Have you decorated yet? Photo uploaded to HGTV.ca's flickr group by Lynne-Anne Bruns of Lakbdesign (this is her adorable five-year-old son) Living in a condo, I don't really get the chance to decorate for Halloween.
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Oct
23

Halloween Marathon Today, 6pm ET: Spooky Houses!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/23/2010 2:31:00 PM
The cold is starting to seep into our neighbourhood parks, streets and our bones...mwa ha hahahah! Aaaallright, I won't quit my day job. Maybe I'll stick to decorating, and take some lessons from our various specials showcasing the best of Halloween ,
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Oct
23

Bargain Saturday: 3 Cheap and Cheerful DIY Candle Ideas

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Posted by Jessica McLaughlin 10/23/2010 9:04:00 AM
There are two things you need to know about me: I'm not crafty and I like a bargain . I really wish I were crafty . When I'm looking for unique ideas for presents I always gravitate to doing a little something homemade that doesn't require me to tap into
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Oct
22

Top 5 Get Schooled! Friday: Mispronounced Words in Decor

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/22/2010 2:03:00 PM
Aaaaand we wrap up Trends . Today, with one of my most favourite contributors, Michelle Carangi of Holley & Gill , we kick off Get Schooled! Our earnest attempt at demystifying the inner workings of design and decor , to help you -- and us, for that
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Oct
21

A Real People Reno Inspired by Home to Flip: The Bathroom

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/21/2010 1:38:00 PM
This is for real, friends. Janet Koops, a writer/blogger living in Toronto, fell in love with Peter Fallico 's main floor bathroom detailed in episode 6 of Home to Flip , Season 2. Main floor bathroom, Home to Flip, Season 2. Janet's 1920s home and only
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Oct
21

New Web Series Launch: Model Home Showdown Premieres Today!

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Posted by Alicia Cox 10/21/2010 10:02:00 AM
I can't tell you how excited I am to announce the launch of a big-time first for HGTV.ca ...our new web series, Model Home Showdown , premieres today! Back in the spring, Elana and I were hoping to shoot something, anything with the lovely and talented
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Oct
20

Quiz Answer: Colin and Justin Did Not Design THIS Room!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/20/2010 4:37:00 PM
Ok, I feel bad now. I was such an effective trickster with this week's quiz that I fear only two of you emailed me the correct answer ! I worked for it though -- if it means anything to you, I spent all day searching for the perfect photographs to throw
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Oct
20

Halloween Inspiration: Great Expectations' Miss Havisham

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Posted by Vanessa 10/20/2010 3:37:00 PM
I have always loved the image of Miss Havisham from Dickens' classic Great Expectations . The jilted bride was left at the alter and spent the rest of her days decaying in her mansion, still wearing her wedding gown. She's almost a skeleton and well on
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Oct
19

HGTV.ca Original Home Tour: John & Juli of Mjolk, Toronto

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/19/2010 2:10:00 PM
WHO: John and Juli, two very discerning young people who are serious about design. A dream for John, the couple opened Mjolk almost a year ago, a contemporary design store in Toronto that gives a voice to current Scandinavian design. John and Juli, at
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Oct
18

Quiz: Which of These 3 Interiors is NOT Designed by Colin and Justin?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/18/2010 7:11:00 PM
It's SWAG time again! Plus, I love the sport of tricking you all... Colin and Justin fans are very intense. Those who love the sassy gents and their clever, undressing tirades, love them a lot. And so, today I test that love by seeing just how well their
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Oct
18

Halloween DIY: Paper Spider Wreath

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Posted by Alicia Cox 10/18/2010 4:48:00 PM
This Halloween wreath is relatively simple to create and it's a good project for crafty kids . Images courtesy of Sarah Jones Why does the front door have all the fun? Kids can create personalized wreaths for their bedroom doors or windows in the house.
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Oct
16

Social Media Saturday: What Three Hosts Would You Invite For Dinner?

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Posted by Alicia Cox 10/16/2010 9:56:00 AM
Sometimes our Tweeps crack me up. Example: After I tweeted a link to Bryan Baeumler's tips on installing drywall , @lovelaughshop replied: I think it would be easier if he just came over and showed me ;) I then got to thinking...which hosts would I like
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Oct
15

Top 5 Friday: Upcycling Ideas (Start As One Thing, End As Another!)

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Posted by Alicia Cox 10/15/2010 3:37:00 PM
Whether you call it upcycling, reusing, refurbishing or reimagining, today's Top 5 Friday is all about finding decor inspiration and doing it yourself . Headboard From Wooden Skids (aka Pallets) This idea came courtesy of Julia Black from Pure Design
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Oct
14

Selling New York Recap: The Crazy Things People Do to Sell

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/14/2010 5:01:00 PM
I actually know someone who buried a figurine of St. Joseph -- head first -- in the front yard, to help her home sell. It sold. Eventually. But was it thanks to the buried boon? We'll never know. This is why I chuckled during last night's episode of Selling
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Oct
14

Halloween: Skulls That Could Last All Year

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Posted by Vanessa 10/14/2010 2:39:00 PM
Whether you were horrified by Elana's Halloween trend post (declaring orange passé) or you're ready to embrace grey pumpkins, you have to agree that skulls are a classic Halloween motif. The accessories that I've chosen are just classy — okay, kitschy
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Oct
13

Design Dilemma with Glen Peloso: Backsplash Decisions

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/13/2010 5:00:00 PM
The backsplash. A terribly overwhelming frontier. That's why it's safer to leave it to the pros. Our pro is of course, the very stylish yet practical Glen Peloso , who's been graciously attending to your design dilemmas of late, and we hope to keep him
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Oct
13

Live Blogging Event Tonight, 9pm ET: Selling New York with Kleier Agents!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/13/2010 12:46:00 PM
JUST got off the phone with the Kleier ladies and they're super excited! Mom Michele, and daughters Sabrina and Samantha are joining us to live blog tonight's episode of Selling New York , in which Samantha interrupts a rare day off for her mother to
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Oct
12

Halloween: Orange is Out -- Go for This Palette Instead

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/12/2010 3:35:00 PM
Orange is for jack-o-lanterns. A fashionable pumpkin wouldn't be caught dead in orange this Halloween. If a pumpkin knows what's hot, it'll be clad in dusty whites and ashy grays, adorned with craggy warts and topped by dried out, gnarly husks. From bottom
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Oct
12

Question of the Week: Which Do You Prefer, Real Estate Shows or Decorating Shows?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/12/2010 1:44:00 PM
From reading your comments on the blog and via our Twitter and Facebook , one could say that there are die-hard real estate fans, and there are die-hard decorating fans. Not often do we find one person to be both. Sarah's House, Season 3; Property Virgins
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Oct
10

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Marathon Today, 12 - 5pm ET

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/10/2010 11:12:00 AM
Fun Fact: Did you know Ty Pennington was born Gary Tygert Bruton? Yes, he is very tanned and exceptionally groomed...but you LOVE IT! Add to that the tears, the heart-wrenching stories, the families whose lives are changed forever, the bus...and you get
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Oct
08

Top 5 Trendy Friday: Unexpected Decor Made of Wood

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/8/2010 3:59:00 PM
Wood is in. It hit us last spring with a vengeance, with natural, sunbleached, beachy floors, furniture and accessories, and continues to be the material of choice to shake up conventional looks. In fact, wood these days is everything but conventional.
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Oct
07

Selling New York Recap: Weird Loft with Pool Relisted and Mystery Canadian Investor Revealed!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/7/2010 5:40:00 PM
Two things to discuss after last night's episode of Selling New York , entitled "Educated Decisions" (check out what people said in our live blog !) : 1. From what I understand, between the time the show was conceived to the time it began to shoot, the
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Oct
07

Makeover: Creative Basement Bachelor from Income Property

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Posted by Alicia Cox 10/7/2010 2:55:00 PM
Have you been enjoying the new season of Income Property ? Scott McGillivray and his team have been on point, decor-wise, this year. Maybe it's just me, but the end results seem to have more pizazz. Take this basement bachelor , for example, owned by
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Oct
06

Real Estate: See It and Believe It: 3 Manhattan Properties Under $500K

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/6/2010 5:05:00 PM
It's all well and good to ooooo and aaaaah at the glitz and dreaminess of the never-gonna-own-one-ever apartments we see weekly on Selling New York (check out our latest live blog of the show!) but what about life a little closer to the street? (The higher
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Oct
06

Live Blogging Event Tonight, 9pm ET: Selling New York

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Posted by Camille Hemming 10/6/2010 4:05:00 PM
Selling New York airs every Wednesday at 9:00pm ET. Tonight New York, we blog! We've seen some pretty amazing properties so far, and the clients certainly didn't disappoint. With such large budgets, how could this show be anything but extravagant? This
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Oct
06

Quiz Answer: Find Out Who Designed This Living Room!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/6/2010 12:40:00 PM
Ha! I TOTALLY got you guys! If you missed the fun, Monday I posted this quiz testing your knowledge of our hosts and their styles. The first three people to email me the right answer were to receive a luxurious package of HGTV Swag. I deliberately chose
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Oct
05

Lunchtime Fix Gallery: 12 Rooms with Fall Trends In Action

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Posted by Alicia Cox 10/5/2010 12:00:00 PM
September was Trends month here on Style Sheet and -- like Elana said in her first recap of the trends so far -- we've got more to share well into October. This installment of Lunchtime Fix, where we give your eyes photos to feast on while you're desk-dining,
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Oct
04

Trends Recap -- See What Hot Trends We've Blogged So Far...

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/4/2010 5:14:00 PM
Talking trends has not only been fun for us, you, our dear readers seem to really enjoy it too. Fall is a great time to keep your eye out for what's new, as many brands and designers see this as the unofficial start of the new year. So we've decided to
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Oct
04

Quiz: How Well Do You Know Our Hosts? Guess and Win HGTV Swag!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/4/2010 5:07:00 PM
We've got stuff to give away! Every once in a while we like to rustle up some indispensable items such as important looking notebooks, tape measures, pens made of antibacterial plastic (so you don't have to cringe when that questionably groomed coworker
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Oct
02

Social Media Saturday: Top 5 Facebook Posts

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Posted by Alicia Cox 10/2/2010 9:38:00 AM
Does anyone else feel like there's a puff of month-shaped smoke where September used to be? Where did the month go? Actually, October is my favourite month, from falling leaves to Thanksgiving turkey (and long weekend!) to Halloween shenanigans, it's
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