Welcome to Day 11 of the DS Advent Calendar – one gift a day for that special home in your life. Yesterday we brought out some bling; today’s gift also makes a strong statement, but it’s a little more subdued in a handsome, regal sort of way – great for a grand, traditional home. This [...]
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Because Day 10 of the DS Advent Calendar feels a little special, and because it’s Saturday, and because I’m back at work after three days of sleeping and eating soup, I thought we’d get a little fancy and look at some special hardware. Obviously I’m a huge fan of vintage hardware, but vintage crystal hardware [...]
Read the rest of this post »DS Advent Calendar, Day 9: Fireplace mantles
…and apologies for skipping Day 7&8. All I’ll say is that it turns out adults can be struck down by toddler viruses too. So we’ll ease back into our DS Advent Calendar with an obvious holiday gift for your home: a mantle. Particularly around the holidays, but the rest of the year too, a good [...]
Read the rest of this post »DS Advent Calendar, Day 6: Heat registers
When I was a kid, my dad had a house with no fireplace. This posed a problem around Christmas – how would Santa deliver our presents? My dad’s answer? He’d come through the heating vents, of course! We had the old Victorian baseboard registers, so that’s where we’d put our stockings. And you know what? [...]
Read the rest of this post »DS Advent Calendar, Day 5: Hardware tune-up
Day 5 of the DS Advent Calendar is kind of like a mani-pedi for your home. Treat your vintage hardware to the TLC it deserves – replace the knobs that are wiggly or mismatched (we sell individual knobs & plates and can match almost any original hardware in Toronto), get that bathroom lock to finally work [...]
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