Jill Greaves

A little taste of the timeless, bring-a-smile-to-your-face-and-make-you-want-to-pull-up-a-chair-and-stay-a-while spaces created by Toronto interior designer Jill Greaves.

Latest from Kyla Bidgood

I'm really excited to share this home with you today because I absolutely LOVE IT! It's the Victoria, BC home of Jay & Gord, pimped out by interior designer Kyla Bidgood. This home is modern and fabulous, with a mid-century vibe and some superb wallpapers and accent walls that bring some funk. I must point out the pair of Hans Wegner Teddy Bear chairs - I lust for these - that happen to be originals from Gord's childhood family cabin that have been spruced up. Seriously? I hate Gord. LOL Great job as always Kyla!!! (P.S. Check out more of her work here and here, and more details on this project here) 

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Evoke International Design

In honour of it being Canada Day I thought I'd feature Canadian talent in today's post. David Nicolay and Robert Edmonds are Vancouver's Evoke International Design who dabble in conceptual thinking, spacial and interior design and graphic design for restaurant, retail and entertainment design and branding; residential and corporate office design. They have a few residential projects under their belt that are modern and sleek, and gorgeous inside and out. I particularly love their creativity with staircases. HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!!

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Reader's home - Nataliya's Ottawa suburban project

I'm super excited to share this home with you today because it's from my city of Ottawa. Not only that, suburban homes here are always super boring, poorly designed and really poorly finished. Nataliya and her husband did a FAB U LOUS job with their home and I am so happy to find out there's one more person in O-town with good decor sense! 

When we bought the house 3 years ago, it was a spur of the moment purchase. We really wanted to stay in our neighbourhood and felt that we had grown out of a townhouse. A backyard with a deck sounded divine...until the move in day. Hubby and I shared a beer on that deck and freaked out all over each other about the amount of update this house needed. The floor plan is the typical suburban house with separate kitchen, dining, living and family rooms. Not to mention the most awkward in the world fireplace placement.
With a small budget that had very little room to pay a contractor, hubby had to learn how to do everything himself. And I had to choose all the finishes myself. Thankfully, there is desiretoinspire.net!! Kim and Jo provided a world of inspiration for the regular DIY'er and made my job of choosing tile, paint colours and everything in between infinitely easier.
3 years later the house is freshly renovated from top to bottom. To celebrate all the hard work the house was photographed by a local photographer (Shabana Beg). The photos represent so much hard work, but also personal grown. The house was our labour of love and we are so proud of how it turned out.
P.S. Funny fact, in a few weeks we're moving into a different home and I can't wait to put my design stamp on it!

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Riesco & Lapres

Nancy Riesco and Rebecca Lapres are interior designers from Vancouver who whip up contemporary, timeless spaces that are so fresh, youthful and pleasing to the eye that it's no wonder their work has been showcased in a bunch of Canadian magazines. Superb portfolio, including these favourites...

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