Help Covet Garden Home Project

Covet Garden magazine would like publish  Covet Garden Home—a 100+ page half magazine/half book - a version of their online magazine with more additions and features. I've always made it a policy not to post crowd-funding projects on my blog, but this time I'm going to make an exception. Because of a few things. For one, Covet Garden has been giving us "FREE" online magazines for quite sometime now, two - it's Canadian content (so important to support) and three, after watching their video on indiegogo, I find them all so endearing! I just want to sit down and have a coffee with all three of them and talk about decor now. I mean really (maybe that should be one of the perks if you donate). Needless to say, I think we most definitely need to support this and what will I'm sure be a beautiful publication if it goes through. Click here for more info!

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Cool Decorating Trick No. 37 + Covet Garden

The newest issue of Covet Garden magazine is out featuring the happy home of a couple named Michelle and Glen.  As mentioned in the magazine and by the looks of it, "it feels as if their home has been painted with a sunbeam", lots of happy, cheery stuff going on; including the fun shelf above their bed –which I thought should be added to our Cool Decorating Tricks collection.  Check out a few more pics below and the latest issue of Covet Garden can be found here and fun to see the talented Alanna Cavanagh illustrated the cover!  Photos by Valerie Wilcox.

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Cool Antlers

Well it's another short week here - things should be back on track and in full swing starting next week but I thought I'd drop in with a little post since I'm loving this space so much from the latest issue of Covet Garden.   OCAD grad and photographer, Greg White (no last names in Covet Garden) has a rather eclectic space filled with fun art galore and I couldn't help but fall in love for that bicycle handle bar and seat(?) above his mantle that is fashioned into a antler type thing by Alex Jowett.  Yeah.  Love.  Also that pinball machine piece in the fireplace.  This space makes me want to be this guys friend and hang out and make crafts all day. It also reminds me of my days in Montreal hanging out with my cousin and his friends creating stuff (mostly music and super8's) and painting murals on the doors of my rented McGill ghetto apartment. Check out a few more choice images below and the rest at covetgarden.com.  Photography by Valerie Wilcox.

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