Top 10 Dining Chairs
Living in a 565 sq ft condo doesn’t leave me much room to have the dining room table and chairs of my dreams. I have a round glass table from High-Tech and 4 IKEA transparent Tobias chairs and right now they do a great job of giving the illusion of space. I read a lot of home magazines and I’m always full of envy when I see long gorgeous dining rooms with tables that seat 6 or more people. Recently we’ve been looking for extra dining chairs that we can also use as side chairs and during our search I saw a lot of nice chairs that caught my eye.
Here are my top 10 but they aren’t in any specific order.
West Elm
West Elm
South Hill Home
South Hill Home
Elte
Design Within Reach
De Boers
Brian Gluckstein
Barbara Barry
Barbara Barry
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Can’t swing a cat in this house
Anyone want to purchase a 5.5ft wide house for £550,000 in the UK? I could lie across the floor of the width of the house and just have a couple of inches to spare!
Photos courtesy of The Daily Mail UK
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Brooks Brothers has gone Mad
Everyone’s going mad about Mad Men so it was only a matter of time that Brooks Brothers would too. Check out the Brooks Brothers Mad Men Suit.
Photo courtesy of Brooks Brothers
Photo courtesy of Boston.com
Photo courtesy of Slate
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THE CHESTERFIELD
Photos courtesy of Mebel Plast, The Selby, Apartment Therapy, Archiexpo, Flickr (ooh_food, homebug, frontporchstudio)
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On Sunday, my gals and I had a date for afternoon tea at the Four Seasons Hotel in Yorkville. Before we headed to tea time, Leah wanted to check out Anthropology. I was oh so excited because I’ve never been there before but have perused their website so many times. Here are the fun things that I loved in the store.
Interesting light fixture
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Home Heist in the jungle
If you’ve been lucky to see “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here” in the UK, you’ll know that having Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan, from Canada’s Home Heist, on the show would instantly make it one of the most memorable series for this show.
They are outspoken, crazy, fun, hilarious, and have great style. It should be fun seeing them eat bugs, swim with alligators, and more importantly, sleep on hammocks without a tent or electricity.
It would be fun if they gave them a project to decorate the camp with items from the jungle.
Here’s where they’ll be living. It definitely can use some colour other than brown and green.
Photos courtesy of Daily Mail UK and ITV
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For the love of wallpaper
Oh how I love me some wallpaper!
When we purchased our condo almost 2 years ago, the first thing we did when we moved in was install wallpaper that we purchased in the UK from Habitat. It was a Matthew Williamson design and at the time, we loved it! Unfortunately, we only loved it for a year and then we decided to rip it all down and paint the entire condo with Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace white. I know… what a waste of wallpaper (and it was expensive) but I can’t help it. I’m constantly changing the look of my place. I’ve always been like that. I think the problem is I live in a small 535 sq ft condo and there’s not enough rooms for me to design with different looks so my only option is to change the rooms I have which are a bedroom, bathroom, and living/dining.
I still dream of the day that I can install wallpaper again so I’m constantly on the hunt for ones I like. These ones are the ones that have caught my eye.
Cynthia Rowley
Photography courtesy of Elle Decor / Photographer: Roger Davies
Candice Olson
Photography courtesy of York Wallcoverings
Stacy Garcia
Photography courtesy of York Wallcoverings
Photography courtesy of Wall Collection
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Hunting for Roly Poly’s
My in-laws from the UK came for a visit a few weeks ago and in anticipation of their arrival, we setup a new bar in our apartment. I picked up the Gluckstein ice bucket, shaker, and wine cooler at The Bay and of course our favourite booze from the LCBO.
All I’m missing is a tray and some really nice glassware.
Now if you don’t already know, I’m a HUGE Mad Men fan and one of the first things I noticed on the show were the Dorothy Thorpe Roly Poly glasses in Don Drapers office. I’ve been hunting them down on Etsy and Ebay ever since. I missed out on some but this hunt will never end! In my search for these gorgeous glasses, I found some other beautiful alternatives. Oh dear, I think I might turn into a glass collector.
Kate Spade
Mikasa
William Sonoma - London Double Glass
Dexter Glass
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Tags: bar, glass, glasses
A day all to myself
This year has been a very stressful year for me and my family so I’ve decided to take 1 day off just for myself! I couldn’t have picked a better day. It’s 12 degrees celcius and will be 18 degrees this afternoon and it’s NOVEMBER!! Who would have thought?
Today I’m going to go furniture shop hopping looking for things that inspire me.
Check out all the pics from my day off after the jump…
Breakfast at the Dark Horse
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Pure Design Office Makeover
If you’re a a big fan of Samantha Pynn from Pure Design like I am, you’ll love how she transforms the Pure Design Production Office using inexpensive IKEA products. I know a lot of people out there are anti-IKEA but they have so many things that can help transform a room into an elegant, comfortable, functional and fun space!
Items used in this space:
Tobias dining chairs
Meltorp dining tables
Karlstad sofa
Vejmon coffee table
BEFORE
AFTER
BEFORE
AFTER
Photography via Style Sleuth
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Tags: IKEA, office, Pure Design, tv
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