If you are feeling inspired to take on some around the house new year’s resolutions, this week’s featured pinner has found some clever ideas for making home even homier! Keep reading to find out more!
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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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With the new year just around the corner it is time to start thinking about goals and ambitions for 2013.
What is on your dream list? Do you want to start more DIY projects? Are you hoping to embark upon a home renovation? Perhaps you want to try new exotic recipes at home? Or just travel somewhere new?
This week’s feature pinner has lots of fun ideas to make the new year a blast!
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One of the best things about the holidays is an opportunity to spend some quality time at home.
Without anywhere to go you can settle in and truly enjoy your home decor; you can sleep in until noon if you’d like, you can indulge in a few festive cocktails with friends, and you can even relish the chance to do some holiday decorating.
This week’s featured pinner embodies all of these ideas and browsing her boards will get you into the Christmas spirit!
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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.
What is Christmas known for apart from food, fun and festive decorations? That’s right — crafts!
This week’s pinner has an appreciation for great decor all year round and a few creative Christmas ideas to make the season extra special!
Keep reading to learn more about this week’s featured pinner and how you could be featured too!
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There just wasn’t enough room in the magazine to house all the fabulous fox products I found for the January issue’s Trendspotting column. Here are a few more foxy finds.
Fox-print Sweatshirt, Madewell, $59.50 US.
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SAH You describe yourself as a lifestyle architect – what does that mean?
WS I’m always considering how we can shift the old paradigms of how rooms are architecturally set up to best suit the way we live. I want to set people up for a better lifestyle within the context of their home – it’s more anthropological than it is interior decor. For example, having a games table in the room adjacent to the kitchen would inspire family time because they’d naturally go to that table after dinner and maybe play backgammon. But if that table never existed, no one would think to go there – the room would just become a pass-through. I want to take a room from something you’re just looking to something you’re actually living in.
It was a delight to interview hip Vancouver designer Peter Wilds for a feature in Style at Home’s January 2013 issue.
His ability to juxtapose opposite elements like masculine and feminine, elegant and industrial, unique and classic is impressive. As is his talent for making the quirky look chic – his obsession with skulls single-handedly made me feel better about my love of guns (…in terms of home decor, that is).
Peter Wilds in his Gastown, Vancouver, studio. Photograph by Janis Nicolay
But what I didn’t have room to include in the article was where Peter’s style comes from – how he got into the business, where he got started and what inspires him. How lucky, then, that blogs aren’t nearly as limited in space.
