Name: Jane and family Location: St. Henri neighborhood of Montreal Size: 3-bdrm home, painting studio, and gallery in a 19th century 3-story building Years lived in: 8 years >> Enter Jane and Fami...
We've marveled at the food and design at local Montreal restaurant Le Club Chasse et Peche for a while now. Now, we're happy to know who designed the restaurant's unusual light fixtures......
Remember Jane's Urban "Backyard" Escape? Walk across that rooftop outdoor space and you'll find yourself in a vacation rental apartment she and her family renovated from a rundown condition......
One walk. Two porches. One beautifully composed porch made a comfy place for a cat to curl up (above). The other porch......
Kinetic Living Concept is a Montreal-based company providing reproduction and original design furnishings for the home. Up until now, they were distributors of contemporary furnishings to retailers ...
Every time we walk past these two balconies we end up stopping and staring. Maybe it's because they come in a pair, so when we look at them together we imagine a world full of such well-tended balco...
You know that expansive flower garden we found yesterday, the one that's shared between neighboring front yards? Well, we came across another, quite opposite, form of front yard gardening not far fr...
This is one reason we love going for strolls around new (to us) parts of the city. We often stumble upon these mesmerizing little pockets of neighborhoods we otherwise would never have discovered. C...
You may have read our earlier post about the filming in front of our apartment. That same evening, a buyer was scheduled to come by our place and pick up the drafting table we were selling on Craigs...
Name: Anna-Lyssa Location: Montreal Type of space: Balcony Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I love my little balcony so much, I can't even express it. First of all, even wh...
We have plain old vertical bars on our stair rails. On the opposite end of the spectrum, we often see highly ornamental, even "Baroque", wrought iron rails. But what about a decorative rail with a c...
click thumbnails for larger pics We walk down de Maisonneuve on a regular basis now that the weather here in Montreal is warming up. This is because the street leads directly from our apartment to We...
Name: Jane, her husband, and three children Location: Montreal Type of space: deck and rooftop How did they do it?: Jane and her husband did it all themselves, building everything from the deck to...
click thumbnails for larger pics This collection of small terraces and balconies from Maison Française magazine are full of small space ideas for the outdoors this summer......
Poetic Home blogger (and Apartment Therapy reader) Grace is contemplating a summer rental of one of the apartments at Habitat '67 in Montreal. We'd love to have her here, as the city's moving full s...
click thumbnails for larger pics We visited the Biosphere last fall and were pleased to see the 2007 Montreal entry for the student Solar Decathlon competition has made its home there. The house is o...
In a former ballroom, designer Anita Kealey designed her own Sioux Falls home. She salvaged everything she could and all new construction blends with the old to create an Arts and Crafts style loft....
This headboard, in a bedroom designed by Montreal's FX Studio Design, bears an uncanny resemblance to two Mies Van der Rohe cantilever chair backs......
Featured in Country Living, the tour of this c. 1912 house highlighted a couple of things we really loved. One is the casement windows in the golden living room pictured above......
click thumbnails for larger pics That's Sara Kate and Maxwell's old Henrybuilt bamboo kitchen up top. Look at how warm bamboo looks in the kitchen! While you might not be in the process of replacing ...
click thumbnails for larger pics We posted earlier about Decorating the Wabi-Sabi Way; with utility, beauty, and nostalgia informing the paring-down of our surroundings. What better space than a kitc...
The kitchen is the pride and joy of Dish Cooking Studio founder Trish Magwood's home. The home was recently featured by Canadian Family, and while we enjoyed a look at the modern household in its en...
We did a little house sitting this winter while our lucky friends spent a month down south. We really got used to living in their home. One surprise convenience was the laundry chute in their kitche...
We recently stumbled on these storage solutions for small bathrooms without a lot of floor space. One is the back of the bathroom door. While it's common to install hooks and even towel bars on bath...
No! Last week's wind storm in Montreal blew a plastic grocery bag into our tree. The bag is impaled on a limb and doesn't look like it's going anywhere......
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