Halloween: Get the Vibe Tastefully
Halloween: Get the Vibe TastefullyAs Halloween is approaching I have been seeing a lot of decorations popping up around town. It has gotten me thinking…how can a person decorate for Halloween but stay true to their personal style? Halloween doesn’t have to be all ghosts and goblins or scary. You can use a small amount of black or orange or spiders or…to get the vibe of Halloween across.So, that started me on a google search. Halloween decorating. Nope, that brought...
What’s Wrong With This Room?
What’s Wrong With This Room?It is time for another episode of What’s Wrong With This Room? It’s good to look at photographs of home décor or design so you can notice what appeals to you but also so you can train your eye to really analyze a photo and see what works and what doesn’t.Here we go!!What do you think of this first image? Can you see something that could look a bit better?Here the painting doesn’t quite relate to...
Thanksgiving Tablescape
Thanksgiving TablescapeAre you starting to think about your Thanksgiving yet? Psst…It’s just around the corner. Perhaps you have ordered your turkey and have thought ahead to your menu, but what about your table setting? We have come up with a couple of ideas that may make you want to change up your table setting this year.We decided to see if we could do an inexpensive approach to decorating a Thanksgiving table this year. We still just love the rustic look...
IDS West Round UP
IDS West Round UPDid you go to the Interior Design Show West (IDS West) this year? We actually got VIP tickets to the Miele pre-party and the opening night party! (Yeah, we did!). We got wined and appied, and got the low down on Miele’s newest and boldest designs.What stuck us was how beautiful their appliances are. German designed and operated by the Miele family, the appliances are gorgeous to look at and second to none for functionality....
Local Love: Karen Carmichael of Jai Style
Local Love-Karen Carmichael of Jai StyleWe had the pleasure of interviewing Karen Carmichael about her Jai Style company here in Vancouver. We love what she had to say about her company! Read on to find our more about Karen.Please share with us how it is you came to start your company.When I moved to Vancouver from SE Asia four years ago, I had brought several of the ceramic pieces with me in my personal collection. When friends would come to...
Outdoor Furniture
Outdoor FurnitureToday we are going to talk about outdoor furniture. Where does one buy it? How do you know which product to buy? The questions go on and on. Hopefully we will be able to answer some of those questions today. Outdoor living has now taken on a new identity. We used to just pull our old plastic furniture out of the garage and hose it off. Now we have outdoor fireplaces and built in BBQs and fire pits. We...
Day 3 of Designers Collective’s LA Design Crawl
Day 3 of our Designers Collective's LA Design Crawl was a big day! So we don't overload you, we have decided to break up day 3 over a few different blog posts.We started Day 3 of our LA Design Crawl with the limo picking us up and taking us to South Bay to start the Dwell Home Tour.Dwell is a design/architectural magazine that hosts home tours in various cities. It's very generous of the homeowners to open up their homes to...
Details of our LA Design Crawl Day 2
The fun continues as we share the details of our LA Design Crawl, Day 2.On day two we started the day with a choice between two California extremes; a leisurely coffee by the pool or a 7:00 am spin class at the famous SoulCycle. Echoing solid endorsements from Oprah, our own design crawler and spin cycle instructor Francine was keen to have all of us mount up. Great music combined with a darkened interior allowed us to focus inward for a...
Designers Collective’s Annual Los Angeles Design Crawl
We just returned from our First Designers Collective's Annual Los Angeles Design Crawl and it totally exceeded our expectations!We toured Los Angeles’ coolest new modern homes, dined al fresco by the pool in West Hollywood and visited some of the most iconic architecture Los Angeles has to offer. This was interlaced with shopping in some beautifully designed shops along Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Melrose Place and Robertson.Our goal from the outset was to balance a healthy dose of design education with...
Design Tips: Curtains – What Style Will Work For You?
Design Tips: Curtains, what style will work for you? A couple of weeks ago we had our first installment on curtains. This is such a big topic we have had to divide it into three different blogs. Today is installment two of what you need to know before investing in curtains. Headers There are a few different headers you can get on a curtain and each one will give you a different look. (The header is the large hem at the top that...