Today's Interior Design Toronto store spotlight focuses on Rosene, one of Toronto’s premier sources of Closet Systems, Cabinetry, Doors / WIndows, Kitchen Fixtures & Custom Fabrication - Millwork. Rosene specializes in one-piece MDF doors, Thermofoil doors, cabinets, and closets. Driven by their passion to provide their clients with a unique selection of custom-made products, Rosene strives for both quality and creativity in all of their work. What brands/designers does Rosene represent? Rosene custom designs all of their product in-house. Store Locations Rosene’s showroom is online only ..read more

Today's Interior Design Toronto store spotlight focuses on CNC Cutting Inc., one of Toronto’s premier sources for millwork & custom fabrication. CNC Cutting Inc is proud to help bring some of the wildest ideas and creative designs to life across the GTA, whether that's with their custom millwork services for residential and commercial projects or using their in-house fabrication expertise and machines to support furniture and industrial designers with their piece production. CNC Cutting offers high-quality CNC cutting services, design, documentation, project management, interior design and ..read more

What is the difference between standard wallpaper and wallpaper murals? To answer this question, we sat down with wallpaper superstar Katie Hunt for a little Q&A session. Not only is Katie a total rockstar wallpaper installer, but she has just launched her own wallpaper collection - Remix Walls. If you’ve ever thought about transforming your home with a bold wallpaper and/or wallpaper mural, Katie Hunt is the perfect person to speak with. Seriously, you’re going to want to dive right into our conversation… View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Douglas Robb - Interior Design Toronto ..read more

As every homeowner knows, accidents happen. Things get dropped, broken, cracked, smashed, tracked in, ground in, spilled on & generally messed up. Today, we’re going to answer your questions about what to do when your rugs & carpets need to be professionally cleaned. Who should you call? Who can you trust? What should it cost? What should you expect? To answer these questions, I contacted Tony Kantzavelos, CEO of Love Your Rug, and grilled him about professional rug and carpet cleaning. Douglas Robb - Interior Design Toronto: Say I’m a typical homeowner whose rugs are in nee ..read more

As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, health & wellness have become topics of great interest around the world. How can interior design & interior designers use their skills to help create a revolution in personal health & wellness? We spoke with interior stylist Ali Cohen of The Curated Block about how can interior design improve your health & wellness. Here’s our conversation… Douglas Robb - Interior Design Toronto:  Health & wellness topics impact many aspects of our lives - physical, mental-emotional, social, spiritual, environmental, occupational & ..read more

Today's Interior Design Toronto store spotlight focuses on Hakuna Modern Solutions, one of Toronto’s premier sources for home automation. Hakuna Modern Solutions’ smart home automation unifies lighting, climate, entertainment, security and appliances for simple management and control from one application on your phone, tablet or computer. Features like scheduling, remote control, voice assistance and preference learning can maximize energy efficiency saving time, energy and money. Hakuna Modern Solutions offers smart design, installation and consulting services for both pre-construction and es ..read more

Today's Interior Design Toronto store spotlight focuses on The 5 & Dime Upcycled Furniture, Antiques, & Accents, one of Toronto's premier vintage / antique stores. Store Locations The 5 & Dime Upcycled Furniture, Antiques, & Accents is an online-only business based in Toronto. View fullsize View fullsize Company History Created in November 2020 (mid-pandemic), 5 & Dime exists to recreate new life out of old, unwanted furniture. They have a great range of products for every price point and taste; from antiques and accents to re-imagined statement furniture that will comple ..read more

Recently, we spoke with Swedish interior designer Christina Richardson about Scandinavian interior design. During that interview, Christina explained to us that in Scandinavian design, home decor and accessories are often used to inject splashes of bold, bright colours, patterns, and fun into traditionally light, natural, functional Scandinavian interior designs. While doing some additional research on Scandinavian home decor, I found the Instagram feed of Kookn and was struck by their reverence for Scandinavian cookware, serving ware, and tableware. I immediately DM’d them and begged them to ..read more

Wallpaper in the bathroom - If you search Instagram or Pinterest for “bathroom wallpaper”, you are going to find some pretty wild & amazing bathroom designs. View fullsize View fullsize Bold patterns, bold prints, bold colors. But when it comes time to renovate your bathroom, how willing are you to walk on the wild side with wallpaper? A quick coat of white paint is so much simpler, cheaper & definitely safer. Plus, won’t wallpaper just get ruined by all that steamy shower humidity? For today’s article, we convinced interior designer Angela Amlani from Decor Answer to help us w ..read more

Every January, interior design experts & influencers share their interior design trends. This year is different.  Not even the world of interior design is immune to Covid-19. We’ve curated a comprehensive list of Interior Design Trends for 2021 and we’ve asked interior designers from around the world to give us their feedback & to offer their own interior design trends for 2021. For this article, we’ve asked Julia Khadiyev from Board Thirteen to share her thoughts on the interior design trends for 2021. Here’s what Julia had to say about the interior design trends for 2021: COVID ..read more