What’s Cooking? A kitchen is the heart of every home. It is the place where delicious meals are prepared and cooked. It is also the meeting place where the family members gather around talking and laughing together. If your kitchen has an island, then that becomes the ideal breakfast nook for every morning. You eat your daily morning meals consisting…
Top Window Covering Ideas for Every Canadian Season The changing of seasons is the perfect time to bring change to your home. In Canada, the four seasons – winter, spring, summer, and fall – offer changing landscapes, temperatures, and climate. The climate and intensity of these seasons vary across the country. Change is a natural part of life and an essential component of the human lifestyle.…
The Merits of Faux Wood Blinds I was keeping my son’s dog about a week ago and noticed there were several chunks of what I thought to be faux wood blinds on the floor. I could see they were nothing more than pressed cardboard with a plastic finish on them. When I purchased the blinds from less than two years…
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…
AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE HOME Considering the important function that a bathroom serves makes it such an integral part of our homes. Our day begins in it and ends in it. A hot, invigorating bath gets us going for the rest of the day. So much happens in that span of time. Routines are planned, and ideas are born.…
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…
In two minds: Vrai ou faux? “Change is the law of life. Those who look only to the past or the present and not to the future are certain to miss the future” said, John F. Kennedy. But for Brook, being an avid wildlife enthusiast and a devoted environmentalist, this mantra was especially hard to embrace, mostly because…
ERGONOMICS: I was glancing through the weekly on a lazy Sunday afternoon, trying to stay in touch with the latest in Science and Technology, and I came across an article on Workplace Ergonomics. This was, for me, an introduction to a new science. No doubt it piqued my curiosity, and as I continued to read and browse, I realized that…
TYPICALLY MY DAUGHTER. My newly wedded daughter, Elizabeth had recently moved into a three bedroom apartment in Toronto. Two weeks earlier, I received a panic call from her in the early hours of the morning. Kevin’s friends and colleagues were visiting them soon. She was in a dilemma. The space was not at all the issue here with two bedrooms…
What Differentiates Shutters from Blinds? In an earlier blog, I told you how my customers often get confused between shades and blinds, which was very frustrating for me at times. Failing to differentiate between shutters and blinds is another area of confusion I come across, just as often. As they both have vanes, it is difficult for me to convince…
