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Happy Victoria Day! Celebration at the Burnaby Village Museum Today is May 23rd, Victoria Day, a day to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday. What better way than to head down to the Burnaby Village Museum, a recreation of a turn-of-the-century village. Today, the village was festooned with uni...
05/23/2011
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The Sky is Falling, The Sky is Falling! I felt like quoting our favourite fowl, Chicken Little, when I laid eyes on this Master Bedroom. My company, Exit Stage Right, had been hired by the owners to stage this home for sale, and I was just getting a preliminary tour. The style of the home was w...
05/22/2011
Country Furniture Vancouver showcases Edible Garden author, Andrea Bellamy What does one do on a rainy, grey Saturday afternoon? I sure needed a pick-me-up. One of my favourite things to do is visit Country Furniture, on South Granville in Vancouver. Ok, honestly, I really think they should re...
05/21/2011
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The Design Resource Centre - Vancouver, B.C. Our City Stagers group recently went on a great field trip. We visited the Design Resource Centre. This is a venue where designers can go to pick out the latest in cutting edge fabric, wallpaper, and blinds. Good quality fabric companies like Robert...
05/19/2011
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A Head-Banging Experience - Up on the Roof We bought our home 10 years ago, and had a home inspection done at the time. Our home inspector advised us that we'd need to replace the roof in about 5 years. Fast forward to present. Every year we'd have the roof inspected, and each time, the roofer...
05/19/2011
JUST CHILLAX'IN - CAFFE ARTIGIANO - WEST VANCOUVER Having a laid back day today. The past few days have been very hectic, so today, I decided to declare a day off! The sun is shining and Spring is in the air. After taking the dog for a nice long walk along the seawall at Ambleside Beach, my da...
05/18/2011
Cowichan, B.C. - A Beautiful Little Community Recently, we traveled over to Vancouver Island, to visit my daughter. We decided to stay over at a little community near the school, called Cowichan Bay. This is such a charming place, very west coast, and dare I say, "granola". How would you like ...
05/17/2011
Matthew Finlason's Advanced Staging Class - SAR - Day 2 We wrapped up our final day of the Advanced Staging Training Class in Seattle, and I headed home last night. I finally rolled into the driveway at 10:30pm, after a long, dark, rainy drive home. But who cares! I am now armed and ready to r...
05/16/2011
Matthew Finlason Teaches Advanced Home Staging - Seattle will Never be the Same! It's the end of day one and my head is spinning with all the information we have received from Matthew Finlason. We have a great group of home stagers in the class, 4 students from the Seattle area, and 3 from Vanco...
05/14/2011
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You'll Never Guess Where I Am... Seattle!!! Yes, here I am in Seattle - well, actually not technically Seattle. I'm really in Tacoma, just outside of Seattle. I drove down this afternoon. It took about 3 1/2 hours because I hit Friday afternoon rush hour, and Tacoma is on the other side of Se...
05/13/2011