Working at Style at Home, I’m constantly daydreaming about stylish ways to update my home. Flipping through pages and pages of photographs of beautiful homes each month is enough to make anyone drool! About two and a half years ago, I worked with designer Lisa Canning to makeover my comfortable but outdated condo. If you didn’t see the before pictures then, here’s what my condo originally looked like:
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Just one look at the cover of this new book by Linda K. Jackson and Jennifer Evans Gardner and your taste buds are bound to kick into high gear. Open it and flip through page after page of stunning food photography and you’ll be prepared to drop everything, tie on an apron and hit the kitchen. Meringue (Gibbs Smith, 2013) is a visual delight of tempting treats.
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Grab a napkin or something because as soon as you start flipping through the pages of Nigella Lawson’s newest cookbook Nigellissima (Knopf Canada, 2013), you’re bound to start drooling. The gorgeous hardcover book is dedicated to easy Italian-inspired recipes and features stunning photography and creative food ideas.
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On Sunday night, Downton Abbey fans across the country settled in for the evening with a cuppa tea for the Season 3 premiere of the hit show. If you’re among the millions of viewers who have fallen in love with the characters, sets and costumes that bring Downton Abbey to life, we thought you might be interested in this great new book: The Chronicles of Downton Abbey (St. Martin’s Press, 2012). With a foreword by creator Julian Fellowes and pages and pages of gorgeous photography, this book will keep the true Downton fan occupied for hours. Want to win a copy? We thought you might.
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It’s that time of year. My mom and my sister keep asking me what I’d like for Christmas and the thing is, I can never think of anything. But with growing pressure to come up with a few ideas to put on my Christmas wish list, I remembered something that caught my eye back in October.
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Have you seen the new HGTV television series Four Houses Canada yet? If you have, you’ll know it’s a property show like no other. And if you haven’t, you must tune in. In each episode, four strangers tour and rate each others homes. Each house is critiqued in secret for style, design and overall impression. The homeowner with the highest score wins bragging rights as “Best House,” a cash prize and, best of all, a photo feature in an upcoming issue of Style at Home magazine. Here are six interiors of the winning homes. Four Houses Canada airs Sundays at 9 pm ET/PT on HGTV.
It’s the holiday season and we just can’t stop giving! To help you enjoy your holidays even more than we know you will, we want to give you the chance to win a set of beautiful cards and gift tags from Paper Society Co. These stylish holiday cards are printed in black ink on thick white card stock and come with a festive red envelope. Ready to get a jumpstart on your Christmas correspondance?
HOW TO WIN: Leave a comment below and tell us what your favourite part of the holiday season is. We’ll choose a winning response on December 7, 2012. The winner will receive a set of 6 cards and 8 gift tags, valued at $21. Winner can choose gift pack from the Warm Wishes collection OR the Holiday Kisses collection. View collections here.
Contest closes December 7, 2012 at 12pm EST. Open to all residents of Canada. Not open to any Transcontinental Media employees, their families, or any other persons with whom they reside.
Good luck!
UPDATE: Congratulations to our winner Debbie from Toronto, ON.
If you hadn’t noticed, here at Style at Home, we love to give things away to you, our fabulous readers. We spend a lot of our time sourcing the best new products and want you to have the chance to try them as well. That’s why we’re thrilled with this contest with Penny Paper Co.
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Cupcakes hopped into the spotlight in recent years but not for a mere 15 minutes. Cupcakes are as popular as ever, with cupcakeries popping up in the world’s chicest cities. Case in point: Sprinkles, the cupcake shop that was born in Beverly Hills and has expanded to a handful of US cities, including Chicago, New York and Scottsdale. But how are we Canucks supposed to satisfy our Sprinkles cravings with no Canadian locations to nip out to? Easy. Make them at home!
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When I completed my kitchen renovation, one of the things I was most excited about was my new stainless steel Whirlpool kitchen appliances. I was ready to ditch the dated fridge, stove and dishwasher that came with my condo and replace them with appliances that not only worked better but looked better, too. The shiny new appliances were the finishing touch, giving my kitchen makeover a true sense of completion.
But as good as stainless steel appliances look, they’re trickier to keep clean. Smudges and fingerprints show more easily and after cooking, the stove cooktop seems to take a little more elbow grease to return it to its original gleaming glory.
