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Georgia Straight Living

Front of house

By Pieta Woolley
Move, shape and roll Has upstart little Vancouver developed a design aesthetic all its own? Form your own opinion at the Vancouver Museum’s Movers and Shapers exhibition, on until June 22. The show features 20 locally based—and internationally known—jewellery, clothing, lighting, furniture, space, and building designers. Most are young; all are inspiring.
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Into the fry pan: chefs at home

By Luisa Rino
Photos by Tracey Kusiewicz
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Life at kitchen central with Simi Sara

By Carolyn Ali
Simi Sara spends a lot of time in the studio kitchen as the host of Citytv CityCooks (Monday to Friday at 6 p.m.). Yet the kitchen is also where you’ll find her at home, baking cakes, cookies, and muffins. “It’s my hobby,” she says. “It’s the only way I relax.” The cohost of Breakfast Television (Monday to Friday, 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.) lives on an acreage in Ladner with her husband, 11-year-old daughter, eight-year-old son, and chocolate lab, Cocoa.
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A grill for all reasons

By Pieta Woolley
For the beachcomber Unless you own a hot-dog stand, wheeling a full-size barbecue to the beach is serious nerdsville. Instead, tote the Char-Broil tabletop portable barbecue. It’s small enough to transport by bus, but will still fire up a mean sausage, and is the next best thing in the absence of bylaws allowing campfires. S’more it up with tin foil on the grill, and watch the sun set over the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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Techno bites

By Blaine Kyllo
Make that long-distance relationship last with a pair of Hug Shirts, which enable you to send a squeeze to someone far away. It’s a mobile accessory that links to your phone using Bluetooth technology. When you want your loved one to know you care, applying pressure to certain areas of your shirt is replicated in the shirt worn by the other person. Hug pressure and duration, and even skin temperature, are among the details that can be transferred from shirt to shirt.
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The origins of barbecue

By Martin Dunphy
Canada hasn’t really contributed much to the art of barbecue, unless you count maple-syrup glaze or the wonderful Native method of cooking salmon on a cedar frame by an open fire. We’ve adopted a combination of methods and ingredients that reflect the distinct regional styles of barbecue in the United States, where the word barbecue, depending on where it is used, often refers to just the meat being cooked, usually pork of some type.
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Take steps towards better water conservation

By Matthew Burrows
With relatively easy access to clean and potable water, British Columbians are still far too wasteful with this natural resource.
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Smokin' out the secrets of Memphis Blues

By Carolyn Ali
Southern barbecue may take its sweet time to cook, but that just means you have to kick back with friends and family before savouring its secrets.
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Full steam ahead for a new cycle of washers and dryers

By Blaine Kyllo
Frank Lee has just convinced me to move out of my apartment and into a house just so I can have my own washer and dryer.
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Summertime, and the sipping is easy

By John Lucas
We asked a few of our favourite local mixologists to give us suggestions for drinks that would cool us down when the temperature begins to rise.
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Can a kid-mucky home possibly get chic?

By Pieta Woolley
My black couch set is no longer black. The sofa and love seat, secondhand loans from my brother-in-law, weren’t about to win a Better Homes and Gardens prize to begin with. But two years ago, you could sit on them with guests, and not feel sick.
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Cut the fumes and turn to green mowing devices

By Alex Roslin
There's a growing number of homeowners and rebel landscapers turning to green mowing tools to shave their grass—a backlash against the pollution belched out by gas-powered mowers.
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Tomboys in the 'hood

By Catherine Tse
Since it’s more cool to be Miss Fix-it than Miss Helpless, one company is designing tools by and for women, including circular saws, garden implements, and mini air compressors. So get hammering, girls.
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Take a tip from Alice: use stunning mirrors to enhance your world

By Jessica Werb
From Snow White’s evil stepmother to Alice in Wonderland, there’s something about mirrors that captures our imaginations. And with the wide selection of looking glasses out there nowadays, there’s a style of mirror to match just about every personality, from loft-dwelling creatives to traditional-minded Shaughnessy residents.
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Soundproofing solutions for your home

By Jon Azpiri
Fed up with noisy kids or loud music? Jon Azpiri finds ways to enjoy the sound of silence.
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Accessorize, darling

By Catherine Tse
Toss some pillows, get pretty planters, and transform your decor in an instant. Catherine Tse shows you how.
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Finding the colour of harmony in renovation

By Mike Usinger
David Wong's house is painted red, but the designer has turned it ecogreen, inside and out.
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Front of house

Fresh paints and refined designs for your home, poems for the houseless, plus the secrets of Vancouver's heritage properties
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Ready for a design pro? Ask questions first

By Catherine Tse
if you’re wondering if the living room would look better with those support pillars knocked out, or if adding electrical components is as easy as matching up the coloured wires, you might want to bring in a professional interior designer.
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The fine art of buying art

By Luisa Rino
Four gallery owners provide expert advice on what to put on your walls.
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David Suzuki chills out along the waterfront

By Matthew Burrows
When David Suzuki is not away on one of his many speaking engagements or political campaigns, the 71-year-old scientist and broadcaster can be found in his Point Grey home spending time with his wife, Tara Cullis.
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Paul Kane, furniture's minimal magician

By Shawn Conner
Paul Kane was living in the Waterfall Building on West 2nd Avenue when he accidentally took his first step on the path to becoming a custom-furniture designer. The units of the brand new, mixed-use structure were then without blinds, so Kane took it upon himself to drill a couple of holes, install a supporting rod, and hang some curtains in his place. Seeing this, the owner hired him to do the same for the whole building.
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Going green is a suite deal for owners and renters

By Pieta Woolley
For the past seven years, University of B.C. PhD student J. Karen Parker has lived in basement suites. Some were gross, and some were half decent. But the computer scientist swears she’ll never live in one again.
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Chandeliers: the modern light fantastic

By Catherine Tse
Today’s chandeliers simply drip with style.
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Eco-gadgets

By Blaine Kyllo
Keep your conscience clear with sustainable listening via Eco-Speakers, vampire power, and use the wind for your HYmini charger
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