National Home Show

The spring brings about many home shows and this year several CDECA Members were sitting in the Homes Publishing Booth, for Reno & Decor Magazine providing complimentary design solutions.  It was a great success and many people booked appointments and came with samples, floor plans etc., ready to gain some professional advice.  Great fun and met some great people.

Jeannette Wisby

Deb Darlington

Helena Asikainen

Audrey Macdonald

IIDEX - Internatinal Interior Design Exhibition.....

It was a busy week for us, as we also had IIDEX this past week.  Of course CDECA had a booth at the show and received many interested visitors.   I cruised the show with a colleague and we discovered many great products and took many photos to share.  Unfortunately, I deleted all of mine in error.  Not doing so great on the photography scale this week.  No worries... my good friend and colleague, our President of the local GTA West Chapter, Audrey took some with her phone and saved the day.  Here are a few of the many interesting things we saw.....

Now for some interesting products....

                                                                                             

Beautiful Carpet Squares from jj invision 

Great products from Surface Innovations - flexible slate and other materials.

 Interesting wall treatment from textur 3d

 Interesting lighting - can be used individually or have several together

 My favourite was this great display fy Palazzetti for a nice organized office.  I want this!

The Decorating Centre Annual Trade Show

Every September, TDC, www.thedecoratingcentre.ca hosts a wonderful Trade Show for Designers & Decorators and every year there is a waiting list because this has become one of the events of the year for us.  Many of the suppliers that we source through TDC set up displays of their product lines with all the new and fabulous items so that we are on top of what's going on in the design/decor world.  I usually take pictures of this event and did take my camera but alas, was having such a great time, I completely forgot to take any snaps.  We had two great presentations during the day, one from the people at Norwalk Furniture giving us the latest colour story trends and the other was Kimberley Seldon and her business coach Marysia Czarski.  Both were enlightening.  To top it all off we had a great lunch compliments of TDC and there were draws for great prizes.  I even won one!!  Remember next year to sign up early for this great event.  Many thanks to the Munros for a great day as always!