CDECA GTA West Chapter at Speers Road Broadloom

Many CDECA decorators attended an event at Speers Road Broadloom  www.speerswww.speersroadbroadloom.com entitled 'Hands On' Installation and gained extremely valuable knowledge. 

Carl French from Speers Road Broadloom organized a professional flooring trainer to attend. His name is Dave Adams. He is a real specialist that works with a number of flooring products.   We we given information on the newest in vinyl flooring; Polypropylene Carpets and how easy they are to live with as well as wood step covers

As in the past Carl arranged for lovely refreshments provided by Janna French-Kugler of SPECA Marketing and Event Planning.www.specsplanning.com

 Thanks to Carl for arranging to have his suppliers on hand for this informative evening

Benjamin More takes another direction....

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 Great Display at Canadian Tire

CDECA AGM

The month of April brought us to our CDECA Annual General Meeting and once again our meeting was held at the Estates of Sunnybrook in Toronto.  Attendees enjoyed two professional development seminars, a fabulous lunch and great networking with peers and affiliates as well as the Awards Presentations to our Winners of the 2012 Design Competition. As well as all the fun there was the business of our general meeting and the National Board of Directors for 2012 - 2013 were duly elected.

   

Karl Lohnes spoke on the topic of 'FOLLOWING YOUR INSTINCTS, NOT THE TRENDS'

    

            


                                                                 

Fawn Chang spoke on how the topic of " FENG SHUI - THE USE OF ANCIENT WISDOM IN MODERN COLOUR AND DESIGN"

If not for the generosity of our wonderful affiliates we would not have had such a successful day.  Many thanks to all who supported this event.   All in all a great day for everyone

The Titanic and all it's luxury

Well we just recently passed the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of the Great Luxury Ship 'The Titanic', and what a devastating tragedy it was.  Television and Newspapers seemed to cover every
single detail of the event and now the movie is being being re-released in 3D.  I remembered how gorgeous the sets were in that movie, at least in the first class area so I went searching for photos of the original Titanic and here they are....

The famous Grand Staircase where Kate and Leo made quite a statement

 

A photo of the original Grand Staircase 

The original Main 1st Class Dining Room  

Veranda - Palm Court

 

 Parisian Cafe

The famous Promenade Deck

A few samples of first class rooms

 A de luxe first class room

 Library

Lounge

Smoking Room for the Men

Another version of the Smoking Room

 They even had a gym on this ship,

 The Barber Shop

  Not to be outdone by the men having a smoking room, the women had their own room where they read and listened to music.

 Staircase to the 2nd Class area

 A Room for 3rd Class Passengers

  Upper Deck with the life boats

 Some of the original china that was recovered.

More White on White...

If you follow this blog or know me, you will be aware of my allegiance to white.  Love it. There are so many different tones of white that  I do not think it can ever be boring as long as you have a mix of texture  and coordinating 'white' tones.  I love to find photos of rooms done in white and done with style & creativity.  Recently I was viewing some of the work from Interior Designer, Benjamin Noriega Ortiz , www.bnodesign.com who is recognized as one of the most stylish and influential of today's interior designers.  There are many books and articles on White Decorating, and of course I have some of them.  The newly published book by designer, Linda O'Keefe, Brilliant: White in Design, showcases beautiful white rooms by many known designers from all over the world.

As an Interior Decorator, I love colour but can appreciate the value of white.  It is less demanding on the eye and the conscious mind.  White is very versatile.  Decorating in a white on white scheme, does not mean the there is no other colour in the space; rather that it is of a secondary value, more in the background.
I have shared white space design previously in this blog but couldn't help myself and decided to add some more....

And now some photos of white spaces from various other sources....

I could go on and on but I think I will look for some great black and white spaces.

   Check back soon...