The debate over round versus square tables is an easy one for me as an interior decorator. I relish the opportunity to incorporate a round table in the dining room or kitchen whenever the space will allow. Round tables make guests feel more comfortable and at ease, as the symmetry and lack of corners […]
Spanakopita is a delicious, layered, golden combination of phyllo pastry (very thin sheets of pastry traditional to Greek cuisine, now available in the freezer section of most supermarkets) and a filling made from sautéed greens (traditionally spinach) mixed with cheese (traditionally feta). There are a few tricks to working with phyllo. It tends to dry […]
Take a drive down Route 204 to Long Beach and you’ll find a small sign in front of what appears to be a bungalow, letting you know you’ve found the Gary Bursey Furniture showroom. Walking across a wooden bridge to the front door you’ll realize this is really a two-storey building, built into the side […]
A clay bowl in one hand, a dental tool in the other, Anita Singh draws lines on the surface of the clay bowl, working her way around it, occasionally pausing to assess her work. The bowls, she explains, are formed using round and half round moulds made for a sculptural installation at the Eastern Edge […]
Running out of room in a house that no longer suited their needs, David Goodyear knew it was time for his family to move. They chose to build new, going with a modular kit home. Everything came in containers with an instruction book, and a week after starting the build they had the shell of […]
“Now that it’s done, we love it here. There’s nothing like it, we just totally relax when we’re here,” says Tara Bishop, standing in the outport house she and her husband Wayne renovated into a weekend escape. While their two daughters hang out in the living room, Wayne and Tara recall the extensive renovation they […]
“This cabin has a name,” says Kent Sargent, standing on the back patio of his log cabin in Terra Nova. “It’s Simple Pleasures, because that’s what life’s about.”Everything here has a story – a stick in the shape of a dog, a tuft of moose hair, dried flowers hanging from the ceiling, the furniture. But […]
The man who built this house was a sealer, a fisherman and a carpenter who needed a house in a time when families were large and houses weren’t. At one point, there were eight people living in this house a stone’s throw from the ocean in Bonavista, says Darrell Durdle, who now owns the house. […]
In 1897 the Fry family built themselves a house in Brigus that would stay in the family until 2014. It was then, and is now, an impressive home. The double bay windows, the mansard roof, the two fireplaces with detailed mantles, the high ceilings – these are details of a finer home.Those details, along with […]
The house is about 50 years old, in good shape – the former owners, the only ones to live in the house, took good care of it. But their decorating style didn’t align with the tastes of the current owner. Which is exactly why she bought the house. Natasha Hunt was looking for a house […]
