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Edible decor a sweet way to celebrate Treats add to festive season Samantha Pynn For Postmedia News Q: How do you feel about holiday decor that you can eat? Yes or no?

A: Yes, yes and yes to decorating with arrangements that look good and taste even better! The best gift I’ve received so far this season is a gingerbread house by artisanal pastry shop Bobette and Belle (bobbetteandbelle.com). It’s currently sitting on my console table and making my living room smell delightful. Though I have to confess that I have been eating the back of the house; at least its gorgeousness remains intact. B&B also make macaroon Christmas tree towers.

In my early days at Style at Home, Michael Pellegrino of Teatro Verde created a dream wreath for me made

solely from Ferrero Rocher chocolates. You can tie or hot glue any type of treat — gingerbread men, chocolate bells, candies — to a Styrofoam, boxwood or cedar wreath.

In seasons past, I’ve been obsessed with holiday grocery store decor. When an impromptu dinner party arises, the grocery store offers fail-safe one-stop holiday shopping. I’ve nestled pillar candles amid peppermint pinwheel candies, filled footed cylinder vases with pomegranates and holly, piled clementines and cloves into salad bowls, and made a wreath using a glue gun and chestnuts. A chestnut wreath looks magnificent, but I’ve burned all 10 fingers using the glue gun. Plus, the chestnuts are heavy and the wreath needs to be secured to a giant bow and a nail that resembles a vampire stake.

And, if you hang the wreath outside, the squirrels will be well fed, and you won’t be roasting the chestnuts on an open fire later in the season.

I’m not trying to deter you from making a one, but you should know the facts.

I’ve also hung gingerbread ornaments on trees, grouped cloches filled with pyramids of Turkish delight, filled bowls with magnolia and Forelle pears, and strung a garland of mittens across the mantel (instead of stockings) filled with cookies, candy canes, and chocolate bars. The mittens filled with treats make great gifts for little ones who visit you during the holidays.

Last, nothing makes me feel more nostalgic than strings of popcorn. A friend recently told me that she and her mom still hang the same red-dyed popcorn string from her childhood on their tree.

I was the kind of child who ate the popcorn on the string even if it was a few years old. I’m not kidding.

S o h a n g t h o s e c a n dy canes, fill your glass vessels with Hanukkah gelt, and may visions of sugar plums dance in your head (and home).

Happy edible holiday decorating!

Send your question to asksampynn@gmail.com

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Gingerbread houses are just one way to use edible decorations during the holidays.

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Housing sector still surging in province Predictions for 2012 off the mark as starts exceed expectations

Alan thomarat

CEO and President Canadian Home Builders’ Association – Saskatchewan Saskatchewan has seen unprecedented growth, with building per mits valued into the billions of dollars.

Saskatoon building permits alone have generated over $1 billion already this year, and Regina is not far behind. Serviced lots are being purchased as quickly as they are being developed and often are already sold prior to servicing.

As the population of Saskatchewan continues to

ity we merely need to be cognizant of the new challenges that are indeed a welcome consequence of the healthy economic activity all over Saskatchewan.

grow, the demand for new housing naturally increases and the market pressures frustrating growth are exacerbated due to inefficiencies within the system. Streamlining in training systems, lands sales transactions and title transfers, immigration systems and permanent residency requirements, land servicing and subdivision approvals, utility service delivery and connections, building per mit applications, issuance and inspections, and best practices in building construction are only a few of the facets that can be identified as areas for monitoring and improvement. These issues occur as a result of the continued growth in our economy and it shouldn’t be considered that we’re highlighting ageold problems, when in real-

The experts didn’t predict this growth You’ ll remember my observation from Nov. 10 and the sense we feel that sometimes the forecasters underestimate our growing strength. I noted then that, “I already have an issue with the assumptions being drawn. Maybe it’s because the forecast for 2011 for Saskatoon predicted 1,700 housing starts and the forecast for 2012 (published in fall of 2011) suggested the industry would deliver 2,500 multiple and single family starts. In fact the industry here stepped up and delivered, really delivered and in 2011 there were 2,994 starts and their adjusted year-end forecast for 2012 is now 3,400.” Well in fact the Saskatoon CMA production

to the end of November 2012 has already reached a level of 3,533 housing starts.

In Regina, the predictions were even further off the mark. “Single detached starts to decline in 2012” was the headline in a fall 2011 forecast for 2012 production levels. The adjusted forecast for 2011 predicted 840 single family starts and the prediction suggested a decline from that level to only 800 single family starts for 2012. In the Regina CMA, home builders delivered 958 single family homes to market in 2012 and so far to the end of November this year the industry has already built 1,231 single detached homes in the Regina area. That same study from CMHC predicted 625 multi-family starts for 2012 down from 651 last year.

Well so far to the end of November, the Regina builders have joined Saskatoon and are firing on all cylinders and have already built 1,502 town homes and condos to the end of November.

As said before, using crude napkin math there’s a margin of error in the range of up to 40 per cent in Saskatoon and in Regina the expert forecasts missed the mark by over 90 per cent.

Lots of room for improvement to foster continued growth In my view it isn’t that we’re punching over our weight anymore. The fact is that we are experiencing sustained growth on growth year after year and this condition prevails provincewide. We can build more and we can do it better and faster, and in truth we need to.

Housing starts in the Calgary Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) reached 11,986 units in November and the Edmonton CMA was trending at 14,615 for the same period. You read that right.

Over 25,000 starts in those two cities alone building a draw for our workforce and economic gravity for inves-

tors and people that we need to compete for. These areas offer a consistent stream of work for those looking. If Saskatchewan wants to keep up, and keep our workforce, we cannot afford delays. It’s time to get more efficient, eliminate unnecessary delays and expand the pace and capacity in all aspects of the planning, development and building processes.

We control the future and we shouldn’t stray from our growth plan because experts wrongly predict the opposite. We set the targets and develop the plans to get there. We are only limited by the limits we place on ourselves. We are future building, we are building a new Saskatchewan.

Alan Thomarat is the President and CEO of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association — Saskatchewan and the Saskatoon & Region Home Builders Association. He also serves as a Director on the national board of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association in Ottawa.

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Create holiday season harmony in your home Amanda Ash Postmedia News It’s amazing how a few glass orbs can cause such a kerfuffle.

To my husband, Christmas means hanging mismatched Popsicle stick mice and eyeless teddy bears on the tree.

It means chipped nutcrackers and faded, mismatched stockings from his youth. To him, the colours of Christmas are reds, blues, greens and golds. And purples. And oranges. And pinks. And ... you get the idea.

For me, Christmas is a creative time. It’s the one time a year I feel motivated to embrace my inner Martha Stewart, to wave a wand over my living room and transform it into a designer winter wonderland. It means glittery balls, glass ornaments and luxe ribbons. It means expressing the most beautiful aspects of winter — the frosted windowpanes, the shimmer of an untouched slab of snow, the icicles — through a unified colour scheme of whites, silvers and greys.

The other day, my husband and I stood in front of the tree, arms crossed, unwavering. He called my decor tastes generic. I called his scattered.

Cue the annual Christmas conundrum.

Brenda Brix and Michelle Pollock, interior designers from Edmonton’s AMR Designs, say the fight over traditional versus designer Christmas decor is a common one faced by many households. My husband and I aren’t the only ones to stand our ground on our different perspectives, on which decorations deserve to be displayed and which ones should be banished to the basement.

Brix and Pollock often experience the tension be-

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AMR Design decorators Michelle Pollock, left, and Brenda Brix create a candy bar using beautiful glass apothecary jars. tween homey and formal, handmade and store-bought in their own homes. They’ve also been called into the homes of friends to play the negotiator, helping to strike a balance during what’s supposed to be the most joyful time of the year.

“This is your time when you can just really go all out and have a lot of fun and make it glamorous,” Pollock says of those who embrace Christmas to flex their designer muscles and use their home as a canvas for expression. “And this is the time of year when people entertain a lot, so they want their house to look extra special because there are more people coming and going.”

Brix says many indi viduals wish to tap into a unified look that designer trends and styles offer. Reality, however, means that many families — especially

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ily and get-togethers.

Chris Standring, who has been leading holiday decor workshops at Christmas in November at Alberta’s Jasper Park Lodge for the past 22 years, says there are conflict-free ways to deck the halls using both traditional and contemporary or naments and accents.

One option is to put up two Christmas trees.

“We would have a formal tree in the living room that was my tree and nobody touched it,” Standring laughs. “And we had a family tree in our family room, which was a less for mal space.”

S t a n d r i n g s ay s k i d s would decorate the informal Christmas tree however they wanted, with whatever tinsel and trinkets

they wanted.

If two trees aren’t feasible, however, even the most frayed, chipped and lopsided decorations can be made to look unified and expensive.

“People get very caught up in making a magazine look, but if you look closely at a lot of the magazine (homes), there are some with homemade elements brought in,” Brix says. “It’s just a matter of we tend to see the flaws in it when we think designer.

But really, in any design, harmony and repetition is what pulls it together.”

Standring says you could follow a specific colour scheme or theme with your t r a d it i o n a l o r n a m e n t s, choosing to put out sentimental items that are a certain colour or style for example. Or you can load up the tree with a multitude of mismatched ornaments and add single colours of ribbon, bows or garland to bring them all together.

To carry the look throughout the rest of the house, Brix and Pollock recommend creating little vignettes with other traditional ornaments and accents in other rooms. Traditional multicoloured lights, for example, can be given a modern twist if they’re placed in a large vase or jar and used as a centrepiece.

A beautiful home might be on your Christmas wish list this season, but Standring says that harmony and compromise should be at the top. She says you can easily find beauty in handmade and traditional decor items from your childhood, which can bring you comfort come Christmastime.

“Designer looks come and go, but what lasts are those memories. The symbols of those memories, that’s what keeps Christmas alive.”

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You would think that after 10 years of me showing case after case of bad contractors that there wouldn’t be so many of them out there. But there are. And they’re still taking homeowners’ money and running.

People are always telling me, “Mike, why don’t you go after these guys? Why don’t you do a show about catching these crooks? They’re giving us good guys a bad name.” I agree — and they’re dragging the industry down with them.

When it comes to home renovations, add fraud to greed and you’ve got the kind of people who deserve to be in jail. They calculate and strategize on how they can take homeowners’ money and get away with it. They know the fraud laws.

Fraud laws state that as long as you do a little bit of work in the house you can’t be charged with fraud. That’s because a contractor can come back and claim that they were doing their due diligence. As long as the contractor has done some work, it’s difficult to prove in court that the contractor didn’t do what they were “supposed” to do.

A n d eve n i f t h e y ’ r e charged with fraud, odds are by the time it goes to court they get away with it — most homeowners don’t have the money to fight the case. Especially not after a bad renovation.

They don’t care about you.

They don’t care about your kids. They don’t care if your house burns down. What

they care about is getting your money. And they will do and say anything to get you to give it to them.

Intimidation is used a lot by fraud suspects. They’ll threaten to put a lien on your house or report you to the police. This makes homeowners not want to report anything, or deal with them altogether — to the point where homeowners just want them to go away. And that lets them off the hook.

Homeowners need to report home renovation fraud suspects. These cases go unreported too often. People are embarrassed, and think they won’t be taken seriously.

But there are many organizations that you can go to — organizations such as the Better Business Bureau, Ministry of Consumer Services, Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre and local police departments.

The more information you give these agencies, the more likely they can go after these crooks.

In order to fight these people, agencies need “similar fact” evidence. Similar fact evidence is something that repeats over and over again in a number of households.

That’s why homeowners need to come forward. Without that information, these agencies are handcuffed.

New measures are being taken, like the Prepaid Contracting Licence endorsed by Service Alberta. Basically, it prevents contractors from receiving a deposit and then never completing the job. If you’re a residential contractor in Alberta and you’re accepting money before all the work is finished, you now need a Prepaid Contracting Licence.

As far as I’m concerned the best way to beat home renovation fraud is by educating the homeowners — and the public in general — on what’s a scam and what’s not.

Homeowners also need to look at the contract. Seems like I can’t say this enough.

Is there information on what the job is going to look like, or how much it’s going to cost in floors, trim, repairs, building walls, electrical and plumbing? If it doesn’t spell out anything other than “I want your money and we’re coming in on this date,” kick them out. And if the price seems too good to be true, I guarantee it is.

Know your rights. Most homeowners don’t know that they can cancel a contract within 10 days — it’s what’s known as a cooling-off period. They can also cancel their contract if there is any misrepresentation by the company they hired.

The last time I got subpoenaed to court, a “professional” kitchen company brought in this big lawyer. Before we went into the courtroom I told the guy, “Do you really want to do this? Do you really want to fight these people or do you want to give them their money back right now?” He decided to fight them, and he lost. In the end, the judge took the money this company paid upfront to defend this case, charged them more and then gave it all to the homeowners.

But homeowners have to take some responsibility and do their homework. I don’t want you to think that going to court is your first option; it’s expensive! It’s always better to prevent than to treat.

As far as I’m concerned the battle isn’t won in the courtroom. It’s won at home when you kick these people out of your house and you don’t give them a dime.

Catch Mike Holmes in his new series, Holmes Makes It Right Tuesdays on HGTV. For more information, visit hgtv.ca.

For more info on home renovations, visit makeitright.ca.

Jim Hole

Poinsettias in various shades and shapes spread out at one of Jim Hole’s greenhouses.

Poinsettias have evolved with times, preferences Jim Hole For The StarPhoenix SASKATOON — I was leafing through some old commercial greenhouse publications the other day and came across a 1995 issue from the Journal for Poinsettia Professionals. It listed 45 varieties of poinsettias and provided a ton of information about their heights, bract colours and anthesis (days to flower).

As I scanned down the list of varieties, what really stood out wasn’t the growing information. It was the fact that in the span of 17 years since the issue had been published, not a single poinsettia variety available then is still available now.

Why? Well, one thing is for sure: it has nothing to do with the popularity of poinsettias.

They still remain the single most commonly grown pot plant in commercial greenhouses across North America.

The demise of older varieties and emergence of new has more to do with the pursuit of perfection — breeding poinsettias that consumers will love, while providing the least number of headaches for growers. Unfortunately, the road to perfection is not only elusive but, as perfection would have it, also impossible to achieve.

The problem — from the consumer side of the equation — is that we all have our own tastes and preferences.

Some of us want traditional deep-red poinsettias, while others like the haute couture types with blushes of white and pink. Some like oak-leaf shaped bracts, others prefer broad, elliptical bracts.

From the grower’s side, most of us want varieties that are economically viable to grow and give us little grief during the five or so months it takes to do so. For a grower, the perfect poinsettia varieties are those that can be grown a degree or two cooler in the green-

house, require less space, yet are still of high quality.

A few of my favourites are Ice Punch, which looks like a red poinsettia touched by a thin sheet of ice, and Cinnamon Star, which is reminiscent of a white poinsettia dusted with cinnamon sprinkles.

That said, I must admit I like many of the reds from yesteryear as much as I enjoy the reds of today. True, some were a gigantic pain to grow, but I think they’d still hold their own. But colour variations and growing advancements aside, one thing’s for certain: there’s no free lunch, and growers who fail to give poinsettias the care they need will still produce a poor quality crop.

All things considered, are the poinsettia varieties grown today superior to those grown back in ’95?

Well, I wouldn’t hesitate in saying yes. Poinsettia breeders have spent a lot of time trying to understand our complex desires and have done a pretty great job.

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Tree at heart of holiday decorating Bottom’s up

Anita Murray Postmedia News Are you in the festive spirit yet?

Jane Tunks of Ottawa is; she has been for over a month. The selfconfessed Christmas nut starts decorating her home Nov. 1, taking a month to put up more than two dozen trees and boxes upon boxes of garland, bows (and boughs), ribbon, knick-knacks and more.

That doesn’t mean we all need to go to such an extreme, but if you’re looking for some decorating guidance, self-taught designer Tunks offers the following suggestions to dress up your home for the season.

The tree is key Whether you’re using a real or a fake tree, you need to prepare it before you decorate it. For artificial, the biggest mistake people make is failing to spread out the branches, Tunks says.

“You’ve got to open it up and make it look real,” a job that should take at least an hour to get right. It’s important to step back and check out your work, especially if the tree is in front of a window, where light coming in will highlight gaps in the branches.

The principle is the same for a real tree, she says. “Cut off the wayward little things that go wonky and take the grass and dead stuff out.”

And a big reservoir for a real tree is critical. “Those little dinky things, they’re ridiculous because they’ll dry out in two hours.”

Always make a fresh trunk cut, taking off at least two centimetres if the tree lot didn’t, she says.

Real vs. fake Tunks has both, but admits she cannot have Christmas without a real tree. “I went one Christmas without a real tree ... and I actually cried,” she says. Her preference is Fraser fir for its branch strength, with the delightful aroma of balsam fir a close second.

While she acknowledges that many find artificial trees easier to manage, she has found an easy solution to making a real tree last: ginger ale. She has been using this trick for more than 25 years and cites last year as an example, when her busy schedule meant the tree that was put up Dec. 2 didn’t get taken down until the end of Janu-

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Ottawa’s Jane Tunks uses every nook and cranny of her home for more than two dozen trees and other Christmas fare.

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ary “and it was sprouting at the top, I couldn’t believe my eyes.”

She says to use only regular ginger ale, not diet or 7Up or Sprite, instead of water and make sure it doesn’t run dry. She’ll switch to tap water a couple of days before she takes the tree down.

As for decorating, “real trees lend themselves, in my opinion, to different kinds of decorations,” she adds. Artificial trees have an easier time holding weighty ornaments.

can’t put larger balls at the top.

“There’s no reason why you can’t put bigger balls everywhere, especially if there’s holes on an artificial tree.”

On real trees, she will fill big gaping holes first with large ornaments, while on artificial trees she fills holes afterwards by tucking ornaments inside. “It’s a pain, but you just work your way in with the ornament.”

Let there be light

If you’re on a tight budget, Tunks recommends focusing on garlands, bows (and boughs) and lights.

“That makes all the difference in the world.”

For the tree especially, ribbon goes a long way. “If you can put ribbon with some glitter in the tree … it fills up the space as well as reflects back out and makes the tree look like it’s a little more heavy with ornaments.” They can also be twirled and twisted into garlands and wreaths for other spots around your home. Think about buying at discount prices after the holidays for substantial savings.

Another common mistake is not putting enough lights on your tree.

“You’ve got to blitz it with lights,” Tunks says. As a guideline, she recommends at least 600 to 700 lights on a seven-foot tree, although personally she would put about 1,000. “For every foot of the tree you should have 100 lights.”

When putting the lights on, shove the strands into the centre and then come back out, she says, adding that you don’t need to wrap them around the branches, “just lay them gingerly and let the tree keep its form and its shape.”

Great balls of ornaments You need lots of ornaments to make your tree stand out, at least 250 to 300 for a ­seven-foot tree.

Within reason, the bottom of the tree should have larger ornaments than the top, Tunks says, but she notes it’s a misconception that you

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Too often the bottom of the tree is forgotten, Tunks says. “Nothing looks more awkward to me than a tree that has nothing at the bottom.”

She recommends not leaving a space between the bottom of the tree and the floor so that the eye can travel from the tree top to the skirt.

A tree skirt is important, she says, although it doesn’t have to be traditional. “Use anything that marries itself with your decor.”

Cheap tricks

To top or not?

You don’t have to, says Tunks, who does use a topper. But even if you do use one, it doesn’t have to be standard. Just about anything would work, even a collection of branches.

“I personally think it needs something up there.”

Get creative when it comes to deciding where to put your Christmas decor. Sure, there’s always the front window for a tree and the mantel or banister for a garland, but look elsewhere as well.

With more than two dozen trees in her own home, Tunks has had to find lots of unexpected spots: on top of the dryer for her card tree, for instance, or in the kitchen for her Bill Blass bottle brush tree.

What’s big this year?

A modern, more eclectic look is in, but also a juxtaposition of modern and traditional country decor, which Tunks says is making a comeback. She, too, marries the two styles in her own home.

Watch for silvers, bright colours and white trees.

“Tinsel’s making a comeback, very slowly,” she says, although it’s coming back in different ways, like tinsel trees.

“I don’t mind burying some tinsel in some trees but bury it so that it comes from the inside out,” Tunks recommends.

But anything goes, she says, and what it really comes down to is to go with whatever makes you feel good.

“There’s always styles that come and go, but your favourite Christmas trees are the memories from the ornaments that you get when you’re hanging them up.”

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Dust off holiday decor with care Q: How does one clean an artificial white Christmas tree that has sat in storage for some time?

A: Position the dust or upholstery attachment onto your vacuum. Gently vacuum each branch as well as the base of the tree, making

Amanda Ash Postmedia News Q: What are some ways to decorate with hurricane vases and take them from one season to the next?

A: For the answer, we turned to Kendra Stewart, a spokesperson for Pottery Barn.

Stewart says hurricane vases are one of the easiest and most versatile decor items to integrate into your home.

The tall, cylindrical vases were traditionally used outdoors to hold candles and protect them from being extinguished. While they’re still a well-loved outdoor accessory, they’ve become a popular addition inside the home as well.

Hurricane vases can add height and visual interest in a room, especially if you group a few different sized vases together, that can be placed on a fireplace mantle, a table or as an accent in a bathroom.

Inside, hurricane vases can hold a pillar candle.

They can be filled with Christmas balls, stones, shells and baubles.

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sure that the suction is not overly powerful and damaging to the tree. Fill a bucket with warm water and dish soap. Dampen a cloth and run it along the needles and trunk of the tree. If you want to take a faster approach (on trees without pre-hung lights), stand the tree inside of the bathtub.

Gently spray it with water and let it drip dry.

Feedback from Reader Who Cares: Here is my input into the napkin placement discussion of where to put your napkin when you temporarily excuse yourself from the table. I think the tabletop is a much healthier and germfree alternative than the seat of the chair. Who knows what might get transferred from one chair to another?

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The double-tiered glass hurricane vase from Pottery Barn features a bottom vase that can be used for seasonal items.

“I think that’s the fun part,” Stewart says.

“It’s totally up to your imagination what you put in (them). I think for me, I really like transitioning my home for the seasons and I sort of look to nature and the outdoors for inspiration for that.”

When it comes to placing bits and bobs in an empty hurricane vase, Stewart says you can fill it as high as you want. If you’ve got a candle in the vase and are looking to fill the space around it, you have to be mindful of the candle height. You’ll

want to fill below the candle and avoid using flammable items, or else opt for a flameless candle.

Because hurricane vases themselves are simply made of plain glass, they can work with any decor style.

“If you’ve got more of a country eclectic vibe to your home, you’d want to pick colours and fill that sort of fits with the rest of your decor,” Stewart says.

“For a moder n decor, pick some really unique structured objects. Because they’re just plain glass, they really do transition well.”

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So clean, so orderly and so cheerful about both, the Swedish mega-retailer of convenience furniture is just begging for mischief.

For most of us, ignoring the designated paths at the local store in favour of taking a sneaky shortcut is sufficiently rebellious. Others are putting their Ikea subordination to more constructive use.

Ikea hacking is the practice of making your own creations from the company’s products — another way to get the most bang for your flat-pack buck — whether it’s by reupholstering the modestly priced Poang chair or turning Pax wardrobes into something that mimics built-in cabinetry.

A website called Ikea Hackers provides regular doses of inspiration, and the company itself has even embraced the phenomenon: The 2013 catalogue features hacks of its own, including one dresser repainted with wild swirls of colour and another recovered with fabric.

Jumping on the bandwagon, the popular design blog, Apartment Therapy, rounded up 10 hacker versions of the simple Ikea Lack table.

Clearly, Ikea hacking can create many design possibilities.

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Lindsay Stephenson’s kitchen used customized Ikea components for her kitchen. son into the world of Ikea hacking. Stephenson, who runs an online stationery shop, flipped to the sources page expecting to be disappointed by the high cost.

She was intrigued to discover that the stylist had painted an Ikea Rast threedrawer chest ($39.99) and put nice brass pulls on it.

“ikea furniture tends to have finishes that people are familiar with …” jennifer flores Stephenson figured out how to imitate the job, posted the result at her blog at aubreyandlindsay.blogspot.com and “it kind of went viral.”

With that first project, Stephenson captured the essence of everyday Ikea hacking: making the inexpensive look expensive. She and husband Aubrey Silverberg have since gradu-

ated to much larger hacks, keeping that philosophy in mind. They installed a new kitchen this year that uses Ikea cabinetry but adds elements such as filler panels and crown moulding to give it the tailored look of custom work.

While a custom kitchen would have cost $15,000 to $20,000, Stephenson says, t h e I ke a c ab i n e t s c o s t around $4,000.

“Mind you, that’s not apples to apples,” she notes.

The Ikea kitchen was a DIY job. “Keep in mind that $4,000 doesn’t include building or installing, measuring, pots of coffee … I would definitely say it’s a lot more work.”

Jennifer Flores has also made low-cost Ikea furnishings look posher than they would as free-standing units by attaching them to the walls of her house with filler panels. Her daughter Chloe’s room, for example, takes cabinets from the Pax system and disguises them with panels that make them

appear built-in. (The versatile Pax product line is a popular choice among Ikea hackers.)

Flores sees hacking as a way to take advantage of Ikea’s low costs while minimizing the chances of easy

product recognition.

“Ikea furniture tends to have finishes that people are familiar with, so you don’t want it to always jump out at you. You pick and choose where you use it. I think that’s the key to it to making it look a bit more expensive,” says Flores, a social media consultant who credits husband Sean Stanwick, an architectural intern, with making their Ikea hacks work on a practical level.

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with Ikea — everyone loves how functional and accessible it is, but they don’t love that it’s ubiquitous and it kind of screams big box,” says Kyle Lin, a derivatives analyst for a major pension plan and an avid do-it-yourselfer.

Most Ikea hackers, paradoxically, do not shy away from being open about their deceptively cost-conscious projects.

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