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Curb Appeal Top 5 Friday: Real People Show Off Fresh and Easy Porch Ideas  Top 5 Friday: Last Minute Mother's Day Gifts Near You!  Top 5 Friday: Green and Gorgeous Creative Spaces: Colour, Gloss and Glam Emboldens a Toronto Victorian Top 6 Saturday: Not a Fan of Ceiling Fans? They've Gotten Cooler Question of the Week: Royal Wedding Purple -- Would You Do It?  Quiz Answer: Moroccan Rugs 101 We Do! April is WEDDINGS Month Top 10 Friday: Organize with These Fun, Inventive Wall Hooks! Video: Condo Window Treatements -- Drapes or Blinds? Tommy Smythe Weighs In!  Top 5 Friday: Easy Makeover Solutions for Common Design Dilemmas New & Now: Sarah and Tommy Talk The Colour of the Year NEW & NOW Top 5 by Kim Vallee: Lighten Up with Wire-Frame Decor  Director Shauna Levy on IDS11: Canada is Over "A For Effort" -- We're World Class!  Video Preview: Sarah and Brother Theo Richardson Talk Family for IDS11 
 
May
13

Curb Appeal Top 5 Friday: Real People Show Off Fresh and Easy Porch Ideas

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 5/13/2011 5:55:00 PM
Spring has indeed sprung! I want onto my porch ASAP. I love my porch SOOOOO much that I can get pretty engrossed in porch beauty shots, so I lost count of how many great ideas I've rounded up for you. But great ideas they are, and all by fellow enthusiasts
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May
06

Top 5 Friday: Last Minute Mother's Day Gifts Near You!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 5/6/2011 1:43:00 PM
I'm still shopping too, don't feel bad. Though I may just buy some flowers to accompany the brunch I'm orchestrating at the ol' homestead this Sunday. That should be enough, no? Ok, maybe not. I'm a mom now too, and I love me some gifts. I feign indifference
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Apr
22

Top 5 Friday: Green and Gorgeous

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Posted by Mia Rodak 4/22/2011 9:35:00 AM
There are many ways to furnish and decorate your home that are both easy on the planet and easy on your pocket book. We've explored many of these green and budget-friendly tricks on this site many times over; up-cycling , antiquing , refurbishing , choosing
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Apr
19

Creative Spaces: Colour, Gloss and Glam Emboldens a Toronto Victorian

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Posted by Guest Blogger 4/19/2011 9:11:00 AM
An editor and a writer with two young children turn a semi-detached late Victorian in downtown Toronto into a glamorous, boldly colored showplace, suffused with an eclectic, fun, artistic spirit. By: Rana Florida, Creative Class Group ; Special Contributor
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Apr
16

Top 6 Saturday: Not a Fan of Ceiling Fans? They've Gotten Cooler

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 4/16/2011 4:30:00 PM
Enough puns for ya? I'm not one for punning, but that headline came to me like a gift I couldn't refuse... To kill it dead, I have not been a fan of ceiling fans . Lighting is an important component in a room and ceiling fans never seemed to deliver in
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Apr
05

Question of the Week: Royal Wedding Purple -- Would You Do It?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 4/5/2011 3:18:00 PM
Since it's Royal Wedding April -- congrats Wills and Kate! -- the colour purple is basking in renewed attention. Not an easy one to tackle in the realm of decor, especially since we've been steered toward white-washed, sun-bleached and natural everything,
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Apr
04

Quiz Answer: Moroccan Rugs 101

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 4/4/2011 4:56:00 PM
Well, you guys know your rugs ! Almost exactly twice as many of you chose the correct answer to last Monday's quiz , asking which of these two rugs is more expensive.... A) B) Beni Ouarain rug ; Persian rug The correct answer is A (left), a vintage (c.
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Apr
01

We Do! April is WEDDINGS Month

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Posted by Vanessa 4/1/2011 2:00:00 PM
With the Royal wedding less than a month away and with summer wedding invites flooding your mailboxes, we thought it was appropriate to focus on nuptials in April . Plus, for those of you planning fall/winter weddings or even spring 2012 events, now's
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Mar
04

Top 10 Friday: Organize with These Fun, Inventive Wall Hooks!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 3/4/2011 7:51:00 PM
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: wall hooks are the cupcakes of decor. Small, fun, infinitely creative, surprisingly impactful and the best impulse buy you could make. I don't think much more needs to be said here. These are my top 10 faves!
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Feb
14

Video: Condo Window Treatements -- Drapes or Blinds? Tommy Smythe Weighs In!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 2/14/2011 3:02:00 PM
Ah the wall of windows . It's one of the more striking features of a typical condo apartment , and also one of the most challenging: how does one cover a wall of windows without it looking like a letdown? It's such a large area, to simply treat it utilitarian-like
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Feb
04

Top 5 Friday: Easy Makeover Solutions for Common Design Dilemmas

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 2/4/2011 3:10:00 PM
We may lust after a certain aesthetic or a particular piece of furniture but the reality for what I would hazard to say is the majority, is that we live with a lot of aesthetic compromise . Most of us can't renovate our entire home in one go, and those
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Jan
29

New & Now: Sarah and Tommy Talk The Colour of the Year

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Posted by Vanessa 1/29/2011 10:50:00 AM
I got to sit down with the lovely Sarah Richardson and Tommy Smythe a few weeks ago and they are funny and friendly and a pleasure to interview. I asked what they thought of Pantone's Colour of the Year and got some great tips about how to use it. PLUS
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Jan
28

NEW & NOW Top 5 by Kim Vallee: Lighten Up with Wire-Frame Decor

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Posted by Guest Blogger 1/28/2011 3:02:00 PM
We are all familiar with the charm of antique, wire-framed accessories , but more and more modern wire-frame designs are popping up on the market. Though thought of as traditional, many of these newly-wrought pieces go beyond the industrial or cottage
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Jan
26

Director Shauna Levy on IDS11: Canada is Over "A For Effort" -- We're World Class!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 1/26/2011 2:13:00 PM
As Vice President of MMPI Canada (an international conference and trade show management company producing events all over Canada and the US), and director of the Interior Design Show and Explore Design, Shauna Levy is the mind behind the vision. Traveling
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Jan
25

Video Preview: Sarah and Brother Theo Richardson Talk Family for IDS11

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 1/25/2011 8:51:00 PM
Friends, you may have known this already, but believe it or not, I kinda didn't, until shortly before my visit to the media day for IDS11 : Sarah Richardson has a brother, Theo Richardson, who is also a designer. And he's the sweetest! Thank you again
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