If you find yourself in London, England in the near future, and want to do some shopping, I suggest you forget the usual spots — Bond Street, Knightsbridge and Notting Hill. (more…)
In my constant desire to acquaint you with all that is hip and hot, I assembled, during a recent western jaunt, a master list to help you shop when you find yourself in Canada’s western gate. (more…)
It seemed only appropriate that there was scaffolding all over the church where my mother’s funeral was held. She was, in fact, a builder-a builder of home and family. Her greatest buildings were her children, her grand- and great-grand children, and a loving marriage of sixty years. (more…)
“Either I go or the wallpaper does,” Oscar Wilde is reputed to have uttered on his deathbed in 1900, in a well-papered room in the four-star l’Hotel in Paris. If only his dying words had been about the drapes, or the carpet. Perhaps then there would not be such a dread of wallpaper. (more…)
My New Year gift to our faithful readers is to 
make sure they all know what will be hot and trendy in 2007. Some of the items I’ll mention are very simple, some very expensive—naturally—and some just plain useful. The one thing that they all have in common is that they’re all on my 2007 must-haves list. (more…)
I was recently channel surfing when I came across a very popular design show. I stopped for a moment, as the segment was about how a well-known designer had redecorated her home. She had done a lovely job. The colours were fresh and soothing, and the fabric was relaxed, yet sophisticated. I thought, “That looks great!” But as the camera panned about the room I noticed that all was not well. In fact, the more I saw the more ill I began to feel. (more…)
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