Tag Archive | "Inspiration"
Do It Yourself Tray Table
When I'm thrifting, I always keep my eyes open for great table legs, even if they're attached to a piece-of-crap top. The legs above are a case in point: I found them at Value Village a few weeks ago attached to an Arborite top so crummy I balked at the $9.99 price tag. But the legs were awesome and I knew they'd be a great match for my daybed so I plunked down my tenner. I intended to use the legs on another project but they weren't quite tall enough so I decided to turn them into the little side table, above, with the addition of a brass tray I already owned.
Full post and comments...Teal: Kickin’ It Old School
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Further to yesterday's post about megatrends, I opened the October 2011 Elle Décor and was hit in the face by page after page featuring "hot colour" contender, teal. On the cover (above, photo by Simon Upton) is a striking lamp and vase in shades of teal and in the first spray of ad pages comes shot after shot featuring this favourite 1980s jewel tone.
Full post and comments...IIDEX/NeoCon Megatrends
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
On Thursday, for the second year running, IIDEX/NEOCON presents a conference session with professional trend spotter Jamie Thomas. This year the Stylesight trend director looks ahead to spring/summer 2013 and sees four big-picture trends all basking in the shade of a single epochal umbrella, which Thomas pithily describes as “East is the new West.” “We're talking about a worldwide shift away from Europe and America and toward the East,” she says. “This is a long wave trend that will affect fashion, design and interiors for the next 10 to 20 years.”
Full post and comments...Two Small Rooms
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting Dennis Battler, a sometime retail stylist and home stager who rents two small rooms on the top floor of a house in Toronto's Riverdale neighbourhood. Dennis has lived large and now he doesn't. He's okay with that. In his 50s, he is actively learning to live with less. Dennis talks about the energy intrinsic in all things and has purged his life of the unnecessary and the negative and embraced the essential and the positive. He and his lovely Whippet, Shanti, occupy the bedroom, above, and a small sitting room with two chairs and a loveseat. He shares the kitchen, bathroom and laundry facilities with the homeowner but restricts his "living" to his own quarters in the attic.
Full post and comments...Suburban Style on the Cheap
Monday, September 12, 2011
Considering how much time we both spend buying and selling on Craigslist, it was probably inevitable that my path would intersect with Denise Reed’s eventually. I met Denise on a CL call to buy a small desk/vanity that I intend to makeover as a styleNorth project in the weeks ahead. As we conducted the transaction in her foyer I remarked on how lovely her home was and in particular I admired a mid-century table and chairs visible from the entryway. Denise said she’d found the table at an auction and bought the chairs on Craigslist and that’s when I knew I’d be pitching her on letting me do a house tour.
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