A Place to Entertain!
I am humbled.
There comes a day, in most adults lives, if you have been working at your career long enough, when being humbled happens. Click. Humbled.
For me, this happens often.
Tag: pillows
Reupholstering or New?
Often clients call and ask me if it would be more economical to buy a new sofa or reupholster one. Off the bat, I can tell you the cost is roughly the same. It’s not a decision regarding economics. It’s a purely emotional decision. In all my experience, the most common reasons have been:
Pillow Paralysis? How to choose toss cushions!
You ever flip through a magazine and see a sofa with ten toss cushions on it and think “Wow! How did they do that?”
Here’s a couple of tips for you:
In spaces where you have one accent colour, and you want that colour to really play a part in your design, use multiple patterns, textures and shades of that colour in your cushions.
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I found Cozy Throws!
The Toronto Furniture Show Part 1
What a day! I got to the show and met my good friend, Jennyfer who is also a designer who prays for inspired trade shows. We spent two hours roaming the International Center. It was pretty boring to be honest. I hate going to trade shows in general. The buildings are always too hot or too cold, the air is stale and everyone is standing around their booths looking either worried, bored or slightly hysterical. The furniture show pretty much sucks for appeal. There’s no grand design spaces like the Interior Design Show always has. The booths are very basic, the coffee is brown water and the atmosphere is almost sickly.