This weekend was the Vancouver Home and Interior Design Show, on the recommendation of an excellent Realtor ( Morgan Browne 🙂 www.morganbrowne.caI decided to take the plunge and visit the show!
The show really was an amazing event, there was lots for all to see, touch and eat! Benjamin Moore http://www.benjaminmoore.com/ Design Stage presented Designing with the Stars, where some of HGTV’s http://www.hgtv.ca/ hottest upcoming talent like Kelly Deck and Wendy Russel, made sure that your pad will be looking tight for the Winter!
Another really cool theme was the Small Space Living presented by WesThurn Designs http://www.westhurndesign.com/ and Canadian Homestead Magazine http://www.canadianhomestead.ca/Formany that live in the Concrete Jungle of Downtown know the pain of having to properly stuff your 500 Sq ft show homes, it was really neat to see the concepts and how you can make things appear larger than they are (note to self)
Moving to the large floor level it was interesting to see the breadth and variety of vendors that the show attracted. Western Living Magazine http://www.westernlivingmagazine.com/ presented the West Xpressd along with BC Hydro http://www.bchydro.com/ a showcase of sustainable design from some of the West Costs local design talent http://www.fatcrowdesign.com/ , from art to architecture. It was definitely one of the highlights of the show and I really learned a great deal from it. some of the Designers featured where:
Alex Suvajec,Brent Comber,Contexture,Fat Crow Design,Greg Ball, Skookum Brand, Pulse Furniture, Keep it Cartesian, Joel Tobman,
Food Stage! Probably my favorite, well I was pretty hungry and the not-to-be-missed cooking demonstrations did not help my grumbling tummy! Forget the food the Kitchen was very sweet, ultra modern and hip to creative concoctions.
Right next door to the food stage was the Lounge, now this is something that I just was not feeling, it was just bizarre to try and make a trade show floor a hip urbaine wine bar, there was no way that it could lose the stigma of that cheesy blue carpet to bad because it looked like Peller Estates http://www.peller.com/okanagan/homepage.php and the Vancouver Sun http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/index.html put a lot of effort into the event
Future Shop http://www.futureshop.ca/marketing/_midnight_publish/splashpage.asp?test%5Fcookie=1 was there promoting Connect Pro, it was need to look at all the automated accessories that are available, kind of like a real life Cribs episode! A ultra-modern exhibit put together by Erik Lauzon of Konstruk Design http://www.konstrukdesign.com/Konstruk_Design_Vancouver_BC.html it showcased the most extreme gadgets that we would all love to have it was pretty cool!
What really excited me was the launching of a new upscale magazine for Fine British Columbia Properties, its called BEST-HOME Canada’s West www.besthomemagazine.com and is in a class of its own, think Robb Report meets DuPont Registry, the magazine is to be published three times a year and is based in Calgary.
I did see a booth from ING Direct but nothing from TD Canada Trust, which I found a little odd as TD Canada Trust is the lead sponsor on a major campaign on the HGTV network, The TD Canada Trust First Timer Mondays $25,000 Giveaway!
I hope that next year I can take a more active role in the show and represent TD Canada Trust!
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