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September Favorite Kitchen exciting feature at Home Show Downhome in the city decorating with a country feel Visitors to the all new Toronto Home Improvement Show will be treated to a fascinating kitchen feature presented by Jim Hansard Mr Hazzard who is one of a handful of professionals who have earned the designation CKD Certified Kitchen Designer will display My Favourite Kitchen at Show to be held at the Automotive Building Ex hibition Place October to Located on the Mezzanine Level the kitchen will indeed by Jims favourite high gloss white with yellow trim fitted with labour saving devices and organizational aids to save time and space including the latest in high tech appliances from North American and European manufacturers The entire kitchen is brought to the Show by Heartwood Kitchens of Toronto whose showroom and design centre has been a Toronto mainstay for the past decade The Toronto Home Im Show hours of operation are Thursday October 151 m Friday Oc tober 10 Saturday October am 10 p Sunday Oc tober m 6pm Admission to the Show is for adults S3 for seniors and for children eight to four teen years of age Children under eight are admitted free when accompanied by an adult Do you long for great open spaces and the simple country life With a utile imagination you can bring that fresh air rural feeling into your city home The country look is a major trend these days Anything but it owes more to downtown than backwoods Perfectly suited to the carefree casual style of the eighties country presents a pic- lure of rich informality good hu mor and lack of pretension Important components ore earth tones natural materials and uncluttered spaces At its best country is a pleasing arrangement of informal furniture combined with amusing accessories and is well suited to modem housing light filled rooms The country influence is seen in three major schools French English and California each in spiring a particular mood or way of thinking California country brings out door living into the home With its pole colors and rough textures it is easy to live with and easier to care for The effect is big and bold enhanced by clean lines plain upholstery and uncluttered finishing touches One of its hallmarks is light wood even bleached or pickled and fashioned into un structured and simple pieces and white upholstery Bent oak also works well in this scheme Accessories should be kept a minimum reflecting aire in both shape and color The English country look rec reates the charm of a rose- covered cottage an air of less comfort ideal for older homes It starts with pastel walls and white baseboards window sashes fireplaces door frames and banisters Against this the appealing charm of chintz- covered sofas and draperies is seen to maximum advantage Classic furniture styles in con temporary workmanship and qu ality are ideal for English coun try Lovely Queen Anne wing- back chairs by Canadian furni ture manufacturers are the sence of the look and Canadian pine reproductions china dining tables wardrobes and sideboards adapt beautifully to the seuing So does white wicker with cheer ful pillows and throw rugs French country is inspired by the warm intense colors of pro vincial France a look that com plements beamed ceilings hard wood mm and tiled floors A dis tinguishing feature is a profusion of bright cotton prints mixed and matched to create the cheerful simple distinction that is French country s hallmark In a dining room or kitchen French country is simplicity itself a plain oak table combined with Windsor chairs and bright seat cushions for instance In the bedroom it produces romanUc mood delicate curtains of handworked lace bnght cotton print bedspreads and beautifully simple wooden pieces chests and occasional chaos Whichever you choose the country look will give you the best of both worlds comfort and contemporary high style Elora home show Colourful braided rugs on the kit floor the pine bed in a bedroom quilt in blue and white the stencilled border along a wall These are Ingredients the Country look a decorating theme popularity continues to grow each year Country roots ore In the folk art and domestic crafts of the pioneer oik the nineteenth These people had a happy knack for combining simple materials colour and craft smanship In ways which created an atmosphere both warm and pleasing to the eye Here In the Eighties decorators seeking the country took turn to craftspeople skilled in making reproductions of nineteenth ten tury furnishings and decora items It is little wonder then that thousands of people now look for ward each September to Home Sweet Home still Canada only show and sole devoted to country decorating and furnishings This unique show taking place in Ontario features about fifty outstanding artisans who will offer for sale Tine handmade reproductions of early Canadian furnishings and decorative Items Visitors to the show should be impressed by the variety of goods to be found at Home Sweet Home For the bedroom early Ontario designs In bedsteads and blanket boxes even quills woven coverlets and hooked rugs for the sitting room uphoslered wingback chairs in classic Chip pendale and Queen Anne styles primitive paintings splint baskets grapevine wreaths and decoys Harvest tables and fine Windsor chairs are Ihe focus of the kitchen collection Accessories include cast Iron trivets and fireplace toots pewter candlesticks carved breadboards and butter prints and salt glased All of these reproductions have been to be used In the home but course there will also be a wealth of purely decorative items such as naive paintings samplers Victorian hats whim leaf folk art and carved shore birds Home Sweet Home takes place on the weekend of September 19 and The show is open on from 10 a until and on Sunday from until at the Elora Communty Centre David Street Admission is S3 is about minutes north 328 Guelph St Georgetown Bus Res Tor Line 8460800 Do you know the PRESENT value of your home For a 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