Decorate your dining room with amazing window blinds Good window treatments can easily change your decorating plan. They are one of the focal points in any room, and require a great deal of consideration. Window treatments will always catch the eye – whether they are beautifully designed and decorated, or if they clash horribly against the look of the room.…
Whether you’re furnishing your first house or you’ve already lived in several places, everyone makes mistakes decorating their home at some point. Sometimes those mistakes get ironed out through years of experience or trial and error, but sometimes it takes the words of an expert or observing a beautiful home to see how the pieces in your own aren’t quite…
With the wide variety and selection of window blinds in the North American, choosing the blinds can seem like a daunting task. Graber help’s with this process by offering a solid selection of products ranging from Traditions wood blinds, Lake Forest Faux wood blinds and finally their simple selection series of wood and faux wood blinds. All three types of…
Shading for Peaked Windows In the last six months, the Canadian economy is said to have shrunk by 0.8%, a cause for enormous concern, says Kevin Paige, former Parliamentary Budget Officer. The oil and manufacturing industries seem to be the hardest hit, and with oil costing $40.00 a barrel, that’s not a great surprise. That’s the same as buying a…
In Love with Walls of My Home Sweet Home When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood. Sam Ewing I have lived in the same house all my life. My dad had built our house lovingly, and my mom decorated with all her heart and soul. Their…
Encourage Cortisol and Melatonin with Controlled Light Remember the awe you felt when your baby was born? That yawning rosebud that could turn into an unconscious smile that said ‘hallo’ or grim paroxysms of displeasure?! I remember my son’s first cries – those of mutant rage – but when he was laid on my chest, that glow of wonder, that…
Saguenay, Terrace, Corner Brook, St. John’s, Prince Rupert Out of the night the thunder rang in my ear. I can’t fight the feelin’, Lord, that brings forth my fears. I wish it was over, Lord, please stop the rain. The rain that’s fallin’ on my window pane. (Grand Funk Railroad Lyrics) Saguenay, Quebec Saguenay gets 950.8 mm of…
Easy Window Décor Lately, I’ve noticed that not a lot of people pay the kind of attention to windows that they deserve. And those who do, give them mostly aesthetic considerations. Many people want the overall appeal of a room to be outstanding, and there are those lucky few whose decorators probably advised functionality as well. There is also the…
Wood vs. All Other In an earlier blog, I’d written about a 35-storey tower proposed by Michael Green Architecture for the Reinventer Paris competition, slated to be the tallest wood building in the world. In a sequel to that, I bring you the 13-storey timber tower, the condominium ‘Origine’, designed by Yvan Blouin, in Quebec’s Pointe-aux- Lièvres eco-district, the…
Credit: Michael Green Architecture (MGA) Wooden Structures in Sustainable Architecture The world as we know it today is moving towards ‘plastic’ – plastic containers, plastic furniture, plastic building panels, plastic disposal bags, plastic toys, plastic, plastic, plastic! Even the euphemistic ‘plastic’ surgery symbolizes all that is fake about a person. And is it any surprise then that the world screams…
