Gus Design Group Simple Modern Furniture and Custom Design
Left Right Designs Custom Furnitrue Design and Manufacturing
Urban Mode Modern Products for Home and Accessories
CasaLife Contemporary Furniture for Condo Living
Morba -Funky Furniture and Design Store for the Design junkies, full of Scandaniavian Mid-Century Modern items and ojects from the Atomic Age. Roll up your sleeves and be ready to dig.
Commute Home Custom sofas, blinds, lighting, tables, shelves and other design accessories
Ital Interiors
Up Country
Lifestyle Custom sofas, blinds, lighting, tables, shelves and other design accessories
EQ3 Contemporary Furniture and Accents
This Home recently sold for $2.195million located in the heart of Yorkville's exclusive shopping district in Downtown Toronto. Yorkville is a former village annexed by the City of Toronto. Back in 1830, it was considered as a residential suburb. Known for it's concentration of well-preserved Victorian homes situated on quiet residential streets, Yorkville has also been a well known place for the 1960s Canadian hippie movement in the Bohemian era.
After construction of the Bloor-Danforth Subway line, the value land and real estate increased significantly as the Toronto Official Plan allowed higher density development, with many residential homes converted to high-end retail, galleries and restaurants.
The latest development in the area now home to some of Toronto most expensive condominiums, and Four Season's Hotel and Private Residence.
Source: Globe and Mail, Home of the Week, Mar 13, 2009
The concept of laneway infill properties in Toronto in the last 10 years has been a fairly recent phenomena. Laneway properties mean that property owners are permitted to build in a back lot that borders a public or unserviced lane. These laneways are often derelict passages for vehicular access to garages and private parking.
It has often been a difficult hurdle to get laneway properties approved by the City of Toronto, due to lack of municipal services in these laneways and unsupportive front property owners.
Some interesting facts about the process:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/laneway_house.php
http://www.canadianarchitect.com/issues/ISarticle.asp?id=77537&story_id=141660145537&issue=01012003&PC=&RType=
http://lanewayhouse.blogspot.com
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Looking for a deck chair for your home?
I recently assisted Tom Elder, an automotive engineer, in the purchase of his new home. Tom's passions range anywhere from design to auto racing. In his passtime, he engages in his personal projects in designing high-end consumer goods prototypes and restoring iconic sports car.
His latest project has been a redesign of the classic british deck chair.
The Concept
The original idea for the chair came about when Tom Elder from Floyd Design was looking for some deck furniture for his home. He found most good design on the market was too expensive for the material content and couldn't find any thing that appealed to his race car / mechanical background. As a child, Tom could not understand why there were all those holes in the seat, much later did he find out they were for ventilation. They left an impression on him. The GT40 was originally built in the mid 1960's. In 2005 Ford celebrated their 100th anniversary and brought out a new version of the GT40.
In about that time Tom Elder designed the chair (2003-4), Phillip Starck was in the news about the Ghost Chair, he took the LouisXV chair shape and changed the material to more of a mass market version.
Tom wanted to go in the opposite direction, take the iconic British deck chair and bring it upscale in materials. The chairs are CNC (computer numerically controlled) machined out of Aircraft grade 6061 T6 aluminum, stainless steel fasteners. The aluminum chassis are anodized to the customers choice of color, clear, stainless steel color, blue, pewter and can be polished or stain finish. Slings can be made from any material / color the customer desires. The original GT40 (Floyd) inspired chair is leather, but other leather and hi-tech vinyl slings are also available. The deck chair below exhibits painstaking detail from sketch to prototype. Price range CAN$2500-2800 . For further inquiries or purchase, please goto www.floyddesign.ca.
We all know we have to reduce our carbon footprint. I was excited to find out while watching CBC that George Stroumboulopoulos announced his official launch of The Hour's "One Million Acts of Green" (OMAOG) campaign, and we have actually reached more than one million acts of green. Initiative from each individual as a collective is a more effective appoach than waiting for any goverment policy by means of increase in taxes, fines and rate increases.
Visit OMAOG website contribute and see how you can lighten your environmental footprint.
What to do with your household waste:
Canadian Tire - will take back old air conditioners, dehumidifiers, and halogen lamps
Toronto Zoo Environmental Initiative - ECO-cell program recycling of cell phones, and other small electronic devices
Mountain Equipment Coop - cell phone and printer cartridge recycling
Toxic Taxis - provides free pick-up of HHW from residents of Toronto with a minimum quantity of 10 litres and maximum quantity of 50 litres. Call 416-392-4330
thINK Food Project - turn used ink jet cartridges into food by reconditioning the product to be like new and donating proceeds to the food bank
FreeRecylcing.ca - Ontario's Computer Recycler. Proceeds from the sale of scrap donated goes to the David Suzuki Foundation
Toronto Solid Waste drop-off depots
Goodwill - small household items, books, linens, clothing, dishes, ornaments
ArtsJunktion- will take art supplies such as pencils, markers, crayons, yarn and fabric, as well as used buttons, costume jewellery and dress-up clothing. ArtsJunction is a Toronto District School Board warehouse for teachers-and reused by creative young minds
City of Toronto A-Z index - if in doubt, goto this link http://www.toronto.ca/garbage/siteindex.htm
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