Showing posts with label METRIE MAIN STAGE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label METRIE MAIN STAGE. Show all posts
Oct 23, 2014
After four incredible days at last weekend's Vancouver Home + Design Show, we had to say goodbye. We know it's hard, but all good things must come to an end - and what a whirlwind weekend it was!
Missed the show? We've curated our favourite moments to make you feel as though you were there for every important moment.
Our favourite Scots, Colin & Justin, brightened up the Metrie Main Stage with their signature humour and styling tips for bringing Canadian cottage style into any home.
The one and only Bryan Baeumler took to the Metrie Main Stage to share his renovation know-how with his adoring Vancouver fans.
Things heated up on the Vancouver Magazine Cooking Stage with the Samsung Cooking Challenge: Tag Team Kitchen, hosted by Chef Corbin Tomaszeski. Elaine Vuong and her professional partner, Geoff Rogers of Blacktail Florist, beat out the competition and Elaine walked away with $5,000 worth of Samsung Appliances. What a win!
Urban Barn's Next Top Designer: Reloaded stole the show when three local undiscovered designers and decorators went head-to-head in the ultimate micro-management exercise. Each contestant designed a 150 square-foot space with $5,000 worth of Urban Barn furniture and accessories for display (and public vote). The winner, up-and-coming decorator Dexter Dolores, went home with $1,000 to Urban Barn, a feature in Westcoast Homes & Design magazine, and a 10x10 booth at the Vancouver Home + Design Show, 2015. Congrats, Dexter!
The Ultimate Upcycle Challenge 3: ChairLIFT raised over $600 for Habitat for Humanity Greater Vancouver and their affiliated ReStores. The chair with the top bid? That went to the friendly decorator herself, Christine Friend, for her fun and sporty Canucks chair.
We're also proud to announce the winners of the Best Booth Awards, including:
Missed the show? We've curated our favourite moments to make you feel as though you were there for every important moment.
Our favourite Scots, Colin & Justin, brightened up the Metrie Main Stage with their signature humour and styling tips for bringing Canadian cottage style into any home.
The one and only Bryan Baeumler took to the Metrie Main Stage to share his renovation know-how with his adoring Vancouver fans.
Things heated up on the Vancouver Magazine Cooking Stage with the Samsung Cooking Challenge: Tag Team Kitchen, hosted by Chef Corbin Tomaszeski. Elaine Vuong and her professional partner, Geoff Rogers of Blacktail Florist, beat out the competition and Elaine walked away with $5,000 worth of Samsung Appliances. What a win!
Urban Barn's Next Top Designer: Reloaded stole the show when three local undiscovered designers and decorators went head-to-head in the ultimate micro-management exercise. Each contestant designed a 150 square-foot space with $5,000 worth of Urban Barn furniture and accessories for display (and public vote). The winner, up-and-coming decorator Dexter Dolores, went home with $1,000 to Urban Barn, a feature in Westcoast Homes & Design magazine, and a 10x10 booth at the Vancouver Home + Design Show, 2015. Congrats, Dexter!
The Ultimate Upcycle Challenge 3: ChairLIFT raised over $600 for Habitat for Humanity Greater Vancouver and their affiliated ReStores. The chair with the top bid? That went to the friendly decorator herself, Christine Friend, for her fun and sporty Canucks chair.
We're also proud to announce the winners of the Best Booth Awards, including:
- Best in Show: Save More Plumbing & Lighting
- Best Use of Large Space: Floform Countertops for Life
- Best Medium Space: Future Living Development Ltd.
- Best Small Space: By Nature Design
- Rookie Award: ifresco
- Going the Extra Mile: Nitor Lighting
Oct 6, 2014
We are thrilled to have Metrie joining us for the Vancouver Home + Design Show, October 12-19, 2014 at BC Place. Here's an inside scoop on what's happening at Metrie and what to expect from them at the show.
1. What are your featured products this season?
We are featuring our Then & Now Finishing Collections - the first line of professionally designed and perfectly coordinated interior finishings in North America. Inspired by different home decor styles, the Collections consist of moulding, trim, and interior doors, sized and proportioned to fit together with precision.
These Collections take the guesswork out of the moulding and trim selection process, and provide a solution that helps homeowners, builders, and interior designers achieve a professional, custom look without the expense of obtaining custom millwork. Simply find a Metrie Collection that matches your style, choose the desired trim elements, and select your interior doors.
2. What can we look forward to from you at the show?
You'll have the chance to see how using the right moulding and interior door combinations can really have an impact on a space. We are the sponsor for the Main Stage at the show and took the opportunity to "set the stage" with our Very Square Finishing Collection, featuring our Scene II casing, crown, chair rail, architrave, baseboard, and our new 4-Panel interior door. So be sure to stop by and check out the activity and decor at the Metrie Main Stage!
3. What home design and decor trends are you anticipating for 2015?
Designers and homeowners are looking for a more harmonized look that flows from room to room, and are using coordinated interior doors and trim to achieve that. They also aren't leaving trim choices up to the builder or contractor anymore. Finding more economical ways to create the tone for your vision is always in style, which is another reason why coordinated trim and interior doors are more popular. So selecting the right trimwork and then staining and painting it according to trendy colours, like the ombre graduated colour-scheme or the rose-gold that's hot now will continue into next year.
4. What inspires your products?
In a word? Trends. Our professional designers spend time searching for trends in home decor and even fashion to translate the most beautiful details of those trends into our products. They also incorporate these elements in a way that will keep these mouldings and interior doors looking modern. Unlike the moulding you see on the shelf at a retail store today, (or in most homes), the Metrie Then & Now Finishing Collections were designed to accentuate your decor whether you decide you want a look that's modern, traditional, country, or shabby chic.
5. What is your favourite part of the show?
Since the Vancouver Home + Design Show is like Christmas for design enthusiasts, we love visiting each exhibitor. This year, we are also excited to watch Canada's most talented design and home improvement experts share advice and help solve anything from small design questions for full-on disasters on the Metrie Main Stage.
6. What advice would you give homeowners?
We recommend interior finishings (like moulding and trimwork) be incorporated early into design plans as a way to save money and improve flow in spaces. These architectural elements have so much power in establishing the tone and feel you want in a room, so you don't have to rely on expensive furniture, art, new flooring, or renovations for the same impact. With different applications and paints, trimwork in the home can be updated to reflect changing tastes and trends, really giving rooms a professionally designed, finished feel. Many of the most famous rooms in the world owe their character and charm to the moulding and trim.
7. What is your creative process like?
Our team of designers look at architectural styles and home decor design trends throughout North America and the world before experimenting and looking for ways to apply these elements into offerings that are both timeless and modern. Our wood experts also collaborate by lending their expertise on the beauty and possibilities of designing in natural wood for our Scene III lines, and how best to highlight the natural beauty of different wood grains and species in your home.
Don't miss out on Metrie's fine features and the excitement of the Metrie Main Stage. Grab your tickets to the Vancouver Home + Design Show today.
1. What are your featured products this season?
We are featuring our Then & Now Finishing Collections - the first line of professionally designed and perfectly coordinated interior finishings in North America. Inspired by different home decor styles, the Collections consist of moulding, trim, and interior doors, sized and proportioned to fit together with precision.
These Collections take the guesswork out of the moulding and trim selection process, and provide a solution that helps homeowners, builders, and interior designers achieve a professional, custom look without the expense of obtaining custom millwork. Simply find a Metrie Collection that matches your style, choose the desired trim elements, and select your interior doors.
2. What can we look forward to from you at the show?
You'll have the chance to see how using the right moulding and interior door combinations can really have an impact on a space. We are the sponsor for the Main Stage at the show and took the opportunity to "set the stage" with our Very Square Finishing Collection, featuring our Scene II casing, crown, chair rail, architrave, baseboard, and our new 4-Panel interior door. So be sure to stop by and check out the activity and decor at the Metrie Main Stage!
3. What home design and decor trends are you anticipating for 2015?
Designers and homeowners are looking for a more harmonized look that flows from room to room, and are using coordinated interior doors and trim to achieve that. They also aren't leaving trim choices up to the builder or contractor anymore. Finding more economical ways to create the tone for your vision is always in style, which is another reason why coordinated trim and interior doors are more popular. So selecting the right trimwork and then staining and painting it according to trendy colours, like the ombre graduated colour-scheme or the rose-gold that's hot now will continue into next year.
4. What inspires your products?
In a word? Trends. Our professional designers spend time searching for trends in home decor and even fashion to translate the most beautiful details of those trends into our products. They also incorporate these elements in a way that will keep these mouldings and interior doors looking modern. Unlike the moulding you see on the shelf at a retail store today, (or in most homes), the Metrie Then & Now Finishing Collections were designed to accentuate your decor whether you decide you want a look that's modern, traditional, country, or shabby chic.
5. What is your favourite part of the show?
Since the Vancouver Home + Design Show is like Christmas for design enthusiasts, we love visiting each exhibitor. This year, we are also excited to watch Canada's most talented design and home improvement experts share advice and help solve anything from small design questions for full-on disasters on the Metrie Main Stage.
6. What advice would you give homeowners?
We recommend interior finishings (like moulding and trimwork) be incorporated early into design plans as a way to save money and improve flow in spaces. These architectural elements have so much power in establishing the tone and feel you want in a room, so you don't have to rely on expensive furniture, art, new flooring, or renovations for the same impact. With different applications and paints, trimwork in the home can be updated to reflect changing tastes and trends, really giving rooms a professionally designed, finished feel. Many of the most famous rooms in the world owe their character and charm to the moulding and trim.
7. What is your creative process like?
Our team of designers look at architectural styles and home decor design trends throughout North America and the world before experimenting and looking for ways to apply these elements into offerings that are both timeless and modern. Our wood experts also collaborate by lending their expertise on the beauty and possibilities of designing in natural wood for our Scene III lines, and how best to highlight the natural beauty of different wood grains and species in your home.
Don't miss out on Metrie's fine features and the excitement of the Metrie Main Stage. Grab your tickets to the Vancouver Home + Design Show today.
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