Silver bells… And trees and pigs! Celebrated designer Vera Wang expands her silver collection with a little holiday cheer. These new holiday ornaments are festive offshoots of her existing patterns for Waterford Wedgwood, and make for fantastic host gifts.
Price: $35 each
Available at: Waterford Wedgwood, 800-668-7585
Looking for some great host gifts that won’t break the bank? I’ve got the inside scoop on an amazing sale that’s going on at ENVI Designer Concepts, a wholesaler of decor accents that we often feature in STYLE AT HOME Magazine, and it’s open to the public!
Napkin rings (like the gorgeous little gem above), cushions, table linens, stools, hurricane lamps, candles and even curtains are all up for grabs as part of the “Everything for $15 Warehouse Sale”. Here are the deets…Â
Where: ENVI Designer Concepts, 6630 Davand Drive (north of 401, west of Dixie Rd.), Unit 2, Mississauga, Ont., 905-564-2030
When: Wednesday, Oct. 22 to Friday, Oct. 24 (10-6) and Saturday, Oct. 25 (10-5)
If you made it to the STYLE AT HOME Show on Saturday, you may have caught my interview with renowned colour designer Janice Lindsay at our gorgeous High/Low Stage. Janice has a new book coming out, All About Colour, in which she explores the fascinating history of colour and our complicated relationship with colour in decor and in every aspect of life. Some of the things that came out of our chat really wowed our audience, and I thought I’d share some of the highlights that Janice had to share:
* Don’t feel obliged to paint your baseboards and trim white. Janice says if your walls are in a rich colour that’s saturated, the contrast is often too great to go white in this application.
* Consider a colour on the ceiling in the same situation. All too often, coloured walls are paired with a bright white ceiling, and the contrast is eye-popping in all the wrong ways.
* Colour is instinctive. You can only get it wrong by thinking too hard about it.
Following our chat, Janice treated the crowd to a book signing with some advance copies of All About Colour courtesy of the Indigo booth at the show. Pick up your copy when the book hits stores nationwide on November 4!
All About Colour by Janice Lindsay, 2008, McClelland & Stewart
Price: $35
Blame it on the first snowfall of the year: I’m already thinking of holiday sparkle, and how I’m going to be working merry metals into my festive decor. I’m dealing with huge expanses of warm, honey-tone parquet floor in my new small space, so I’m going to work with what I’ve got and go gold, copper and bronze instead of my old standby, silver. My inspiration piece for the entire approach to decking my halls is this stunning copper-painted glass vase — simple, sleek, and stunning on a grand scale (it’s 18-inches high!). Do you start with an inspiration piece for your holiday decorating? I want to hear what it is!
Alba handblown cased glass vase
Price: $70
Available at: Crate and Barrel, 888-657-4108
Never miss an episode of Pure Design again!
HGTV is now hosting streaming video of Samantha Pynn’s gorgeous new makeover show on its website, including the recently aired “Tiffany’s Bedroom” episode, which is one of my fave transformations so far.Â
Did you manage to catch Samantha’s presentations at the STYLE AT HOME Show this weekend?
If you were at the Style at Home Show this past weekend and visited our Dream Master Bedroom, you couldn’t miss the stunning Graham & Brown wallpaper that set off the walls in our feature space (beautifully put together by our senior design editor, Margot Austin, with help from the rest of our super-talented design team!).
Home Depot is now carrying Graham & Brown’s five smart and stylish, environmentally friendly wallpaper patterns. Included: the dramatic Heritage in Charcoal (above left) and more subtle Summer in Oatmeal (above right).
Produced using papers made from FSC-certified wood and printed with water-based inks that contain no solvents or VOCs, the wallpapers are recyclable and cleverly packaged in compostable materials made from corn starch.
Click here for more info on G&B’s enviro efforts. And, if you’re a do-it-yourselfer, check out our handy story on hanging wallpaper.
Available at: www.homedepot.ca
Price: $36 per double roll
Do you have a product you’d like to recommend for this blog? Email me at naturalchic@styleathome.com!
As I mentioned yesterday, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) has partnered with a variety of companies to raise funds for breast cancer research. Dyson is one of those companies and to support the cause, they have launched two limited edition pink vacuums; an upright (pictured left) and a canister vacuum (pictured right). While Dyson vacuums are known for their superior quality and easy handling, these two special designs are a wonderful way to support the CBCF`s efforts and bring home a vacuum that`s the perfect marriage of form and function.
Prices:
DC07 Upright: $499.99
DC21 Canister: $599.99
Available: while supplies last at The Bay, Home Outfitters, Future Shop, Best Buy, The Brick, Bed Bath & Beyond, Sears, Lowes, Home Depot and Dyson authorized independent retailers.
Proceeds from the purchase of these vacuums go towards a minimum donation of $50,000 to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
To find other CBCF partners, click here.
If you haven`t invested in a KitchenAid stand mixer, I really don`t know what you`re waiting for. And if you`re not going to, encourage your mom, sister or aunt to get one (and then go over to their house and use it!) I`ve always loved to bake but never more so than when my mother purchased her first KitchenAid stand mixer — suddenly, there was no need to make a mess in my own kitchen when I could do it in hers and get to use her mixer. It makes everything so much easier and I swear, makes things taste better, too. This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and there are so many ways to help, to contribute, to stand up and say I care and I can help. Supporting the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) by purchasing products from one of their many partners is just one of those ways. KitchenAid makes a $100 contribution to the CBCF for each pink stand mixer that is sold.
Available at: homeoutfitters.com
Price: $449.99
These Accent de Villes frames made from woven recycled newspapers will snazz up your pics pronto!
Available: at retailers across Canada; call 800-663-2384 for a retailer near you.
Price: approx. $12 (3″x3″), $14 (4″x6″), $16 (5″x7″)
Do you have a product you’d like to recommend for this blog? Email me at naturalchic@styleathome.com!
Style at Home’s design editor, Samantha Pynn, took to the small screen this fall with her very own TV show, Pure Design, and I’m loving it! (And I’m not just saying that because I work with Sam!)
She’s got great taste, is fun and friendly and tackles the show makeovers with an eye to keeping things environmentally friendly — who could ask for anything more?
In the bedroom pictured, which was made over for one of the episodes, the night tables are eco friendly, the headboard has a soy-based foam core to make it cushy, the lamps are old ones made over with recovered shades, the bedding is all organic, and the walls were painted with no-VOC paint.
Watch for episodes of Pure Design on HGTV Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET (10 p.m. PT); for more info, check out hgtv.ca.
Photo, HGTV, John Queenan.
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