What could be more upbeat and fun than decorating a kid's room (or two)? This is your chance to lighten up, take a step back in time, and imagine what would excite the young mind of a child! Sure, you can always default to superheroes and trains, princesses and fairies, but that just guarantees...
Whether it's learning to read, ride a bike or be green, parents have an important role to play in helping their child learn. Understanding how children learn is key to teaching them. Children learn through play and your child has their own learning style. All children, though, are anxious to...
Episode: "The Kids' Bathroom," season 1 When faced with the challenge of designing and decorating a kids-only bathroom, I have a few guiding principles to help steer me in the right direction. I subscribe to the notion that there should be no themes, no motifs, no borders, no...
When the Tukul family relocated to mid-town Toronto, they imagined a comfortable home for themselves and their two young children - and at the same time, a fun and vibrant place to entertain their large circle of friends and family. Two designers, Goran Tijanic and Alexander-Sasha Josipovicz, helped...
Such a beautiful sight, a vine growing happily on a trellis or fence, or on the side of an old house. Vines give us food and drink, colour and shelter; they enhance the landscape of the home in a multitude of ways, whether it is a prolific rambling rose or a demure clematis daintily poking through...
It's Kids' Rooms Month on HGTV.ca, and although I'm kind of surprised that the word "tween" still exists, I guess 10-, 11- and 12-year-olds do require a bit of a different approach than nine- or 13-year-olds. They're over silly toys but not quite ready for black walls and the lipstick to...
Who: Mike, a physiotherapist and Sami, an interior designer, recently welcomed a baby girl, Poppy, into their personality-rich townhouse in Vancouver. Their labradoodle, Ruben, will have to take a back seat in future photos I'm afraid (he's quite the star in the following, which were taken in Sami's...
Come summer, I really do regress. All I see when I look at my 4-yr-old daughter and my lush (read: totally overgrown and untended) backyard, is sunshine dappling through wind-tussled curls, soap bubbles fanning out across the great, blue sky, and wistful days of not going to the office. I love...