Archive | Resource RSS feed for this section
Resource: Vintage Bounty at Lushpad
Melanie Carlson at Lushpad has pulled together a fun little feature called 10 Chairs From Your Parent's Rec Room That Will Make You Rich. Melanie's survey cites prices paid for these chairs at auction so don't get too excited if you actually have one of these super seats--the auction market has gone south with the rest of the economy. Still, it's a great little reminder that if you buy original vintage pieces rather than knock-offs your bounty will escalate in value as long as you take good care of it. Happy hunting!
Full post and comments...Five Quick Questions for Arren Williams
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 by Chris
The U.S. has loads of great decorating blogs but Canada? Not so much. So I was delighted to stumble upon Arren Williams Design Lab, a site I added to my blogroll a few months back. Canadian House & Home named Arren’s site one of Canada’s best home-grown blogs in its January/February 2009 issue and the attention is well-deserved. After years of working as a freelance stylist in both print (H&H, Style at Home, Flare, Chatelaine) and television (CityLine, The Style Dept.), Arren knows plenty about how to dress up a room or a table or a bookshelf.
Full post and comments...Resource: HomeStars
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 by Chris
Who hasn't heard renovation horror stories from friends and family members who unwittingly hired the wrong contractor? Mike Holmes would need to clone himself several hundred times in order to right the wrongs perpetrated by unscrupulous or incompetent renovators. So what's a consumer to do? A good first step would be to surf over to Homestars, a website that lets the public rate renovators, repairmen and retailers.
Full post and comments...Resource: Design Dictionary
Friday, September 26, 2008 by Chris
While assembling links for the OneTwenty Modern post I came across the Design Dictionary, a bookmark-worthy webstop featuring everything you ever wanted or needed to know about modern design. The site is divided into sections featuring info on designers, products, firms, organizations, even magazines, books and museums. Using the random button can be a fun [...]
Full post and comments...Resource: Italian Design 360
Monday, August 18, 2008 by Chris
Laura’s post about Relative Space got me hunting around for related links and I came across Italian Design 360, a fabulous website featuring everything you might want to know about Italian design. Under the furniture section you’ll find terrific articles on a wide range of topics from copyright considerations to design show updates, as well [...]
Full post and comments...
- Love It or List It: Advantage Hilary (110)
- Decorator Nightmare (49)
- Comments: No Registration Required (43)
- All Blogged Out (43)
- Lamp Rehab: Before OR After? (39)
- Strip Brass With Oven Cleaner (32)
- With a Little Help From My Friends (28)
- Making Sense of HomeSense (26)
- High Contrast (26)
- Real Style on a Real Budget (24)
- Of Bugs and Butterflies
- Anatomy of a Great Garage Sale
- Philippines Via Dundas West
- Picasso Via Homesense
- 2nd Annual styleNorth Garage Sale May 19
- Shade Parade
- Madame? Or Madame’s Designer?
- Take This Sofa: Best of CL Toronto
- Spring Tulips
- Return to Matchy Matchy
Monday, February 2, 2009 by Chris
1 Comment