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House Tour: Eve's Warm and Witty Loft Montreal
Name: Eve MartelLocation: Montreal, QuebecSize: 1,167 sq ftYears lived in: Just over a year, Eve is a proud first time owner!>> Enter SlideshowEve moved into her Hochelaga, Montreal loft just over a year ago. Her loft is in the La Biscuiterie Viau building: it used to be a candy and cookie factory and was owned by a famous local family. Built in 1906, the factory was transformed into loft units in 2007. Every unit is different and most have original architectural details like brick walls, steel beams and wood pillars. Here, Eve has established a home that is uniquely hers after only a year of residence... >> Enter SlideshowEve's a film buff and it shows up throughout her loft, from the framed stills in the bathroom to the vintage movie posters in the living room and a film reel inspired blanket created for her by her mother to use while watching movies. Her home is also filled with well-loved family relics from her grandmother and parents: from a vintage lamp to framed black and white photos of her parents, it's evident that Eve has been influenced not just by mid century design classics but also by objects from her own personal past. The paint color on her office door reminds her of the home office her father had when she was growing up. Arranged mementos reference childhood memories or inside jokes with personal meanings. It all comes together to make Eve's loft a space of warmth, wit, and individuality.AT Survey:My style: Retro chic, with a dash of plastic fantastic. I grew up reading my dads architecture and design books he was an architect for the City of Quebec in a home that was full of interesting pieces. I love futuristic and mid-century design because it reminds me of my childhood. Inspiration: My favorite movies, my dads Expo 67 slides, toys, old magazines and catalogs, flea market finds.Favorite Elements: My grandmothers vintage plastic sphere lamp from the seventies and my Saarinen table by Knoll. Its a classic for a reason! Its perfect to have long dinners with friends. Biggest Challenge: - Pacing myself and only buying stuff I love. I lived without curtains for a year because I was looking for the right shade of grey, but now that the windows are dressed I see that it was worth the wait.Trying to find a home for my DVDs without making the room look like a rental store I have over 600 and theres no way Im giving up the cases and inserts to put the disks in books.Choosing paint color. I love bright colors, but the loft-style of my condo makes it harder to be bold, since you can see the walls of the bedroom from the living room, and so on. I ended up choosing warm grays and adding pops of brightness by painting one door red and another yellow and adding a touch of blue in the bathroom. What Friends Say: It looks like a cool museum in here, When are you inviting us for dinner, I love your red door., Oh my God, you have three walk-in closets!Biggest Embarrassment: My big-ass Sony Trinitron TV. I have a cool flat-screen Samsung on my bedroom wall perfect for watching DVDs in bed, but the one in the living room is huge and Im not replacing it anytime soon. Theres no way I can sell it anyway, so Ill put in another year of use or two and will probably give it away to charity.Proudest DIY: Painting everything myself, with the help of my Dad. Those ceilings are high!Biggest Indulgence: The Saarinen table. I was shopping around for a kitchen table when I finally figured out that the kid in me really, really wanted the Saarinen. I dont know how many times Ive clipped it in magazine and glued it into my When I grow up, my apartment is going to look like this! scrapbook. So I indulged the lust and bought it online with Gabriel Ross, a really cool store in Victoria, British-Columbia.Best advice: Keep a sense of humor. Surround yourself with the things you love, even if youre the only one enjoying them be it a family heirloom or a trendy poster you love despite its ubiquity. Youre the one living in your home in the end. Dont be afraid to make mistakes. And when in doubt, call an electrician! Dream source: gabrielross.com, the stores on Amherst street in Montral, a mid-century mecca, the Kartell store in New York, Couleurs - a fantastic vintage furniture store on Saint-Denis Street>> Enter SlideshowResources: Bedroom:Ikea bed and mirrors, bed linen is from Le Germain Hotels online store , Urban Outfitters lamps, bedside tables are part of my grandmothers set from the 1930, all the vases are flea market finds, Kartell Ghost chair, all animal sculptures and wall appliqus are flea market finds, Kozyndan bunny blossoms print is from Magic Pony, paint-by-numbers paintings are eBay findsBathroom:Vintage marquee letters were a Craigslist find, as featured on AT, I made the montage of bathroom-themed movie captures myself and used an Ikea frameKitchen and Dining Room:The green chest of drawer is a roommate leftover. I painted it and changed the hardware. DOMA print, bought from the artists they came where I work for a special project, I found the credenza at a church rummage sale for 7 bucks, Knoll Saarinen table from Gabriel Ross, Ikea chairs I hate them, they will go as soon as I have enough money to buy better chairs, Fly Kartell lamp bought at Triede in Old Montreal, everything else was bought at flea markets, tag sales and on eBay, shelves unit with built-in lamps are a retro find bought at Couleurs on rue Saint-Denis.Oven is from Whirlpool, fridge is an old GE model and freezes fruit if I dont use liners on the bottom drawers, dishwasher is Frigidaire and is oh, so quiet!, washer and dryer are Whirlpool Duets, the blue ones. I love that they look like toys.Washroom:I made the curtain to hide the water heater using fabric from Reprodepot. The orange table is from Ikea and can be used as storage or filled with ice to keep drinks cold when company comes over.Living Room:Via couch bought at Morphe, Ikea ottoman and TV stand, Componibili unit and Eames chair from Gabriel Ross, vintage movie posters bought at Larry Edmunds in L.A., Grandmas lamp, cat bed was made with a vintage suitcase after stealing the idea online, Sony Trinitron TV, B&W home theatre, shades from Pi-Ro Decor, vintage chest of drawer was a retro find bought at CouleursOffice:The Via chair was bought at Morphe and is a very comfy spot to read while the cat sleeps on the windowsill. Expedit book shelves and Lack shelves from Ikea, Ikea red and white chest of drawers, stacked on top of each other. Ive had them a long time; I dont think Ikea carries them anymore. Ikea Benno towers used for DVD storage. The lamps on top are also Ikea. The typewriter is a vintage Zephyr bought at Ste-Foy flea market. The red lamp was an eBay find. The lamps in the Expedit are flea market finds. My desk table is another roommate leftoverThanks, Eve!>> Enter SlideshowAnd check our archives of past house tours HERE
2008-11-07 04:00:00
Inside 'The Evangelical Ivy League'
Photographer Jona Frank's portraits of the Patrick Henry College student body reveal a group of kids for whom the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog...
2008-11-05 12:52:48
Try This
Lalique Vibration Oblong Vase Try This is back just in time for the holidays and a really hopping catalog season. If you haven't gotten your Gump's San Francisco...
2008-10-31 12:08:15
The Beatles Partner With Rock Band
The Beatles will license their whole catalog to the Rock Band series.
2008-10-31 10:29:54
Inside 'The Evangelical Ivy League'
Photographer Jona Frank's portraits of the Patrick Henry College student body reveal a group of kids for whom the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog is the work of sinners and a game of sloppy beer pong immoral.
2008-10-26 11:04:14
Concord Music Group Launches imeem Page
Concord Music Group, whose catalog includes legendary labels such as Stax, Fantasty and Peak, has launched a page on music social networking site imeem. Filled with videos, playlists and photos, Concord invites users to enjoy some of their greatest artists.
2008-10-26 01:31:22
Review: 'Burn After Reading' is darkly comedic, Coen brothers style
Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand offer moments that are hard to resist. WRITER-DIRECTORS Joel and Ethan Coen have such a distinctive creative palette that there ought to be a paint color named after them. Imagine it standing brooding and apart in the Benjamin Moore catalog, overwhelming the likes of mustang tan, Durango dust and barleyfield beige. Say hello to Coen brothers black, the go-to color when you're going really, really dark.
2008-09-13 16:34:12
Robert Heinlein's Pre-Internet Fan Mail FAQ
Hugh Pickens writes "Kevin Kelly has an interesting post about a letter he found amongst correspondence from his days editing the Whole Earth Catalog. The letter is Robert Heinlein's own nerdy solution to a problem common to famous authors: to deal with fan mail. In the days before the internet, Heinlein's solution was to create a list of frequently asked questions, answer them, and remove the questions. Then he, or rather his wife Ginny, checked off the appropriate answers and mailed it back. Some of the entries in Heinlein's answer sheet are quite illuminating and amusing. Our personal favorite: 'You say that you have enjoyed my stories for years. Why did you wait until you disliked one story before writing to me'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
2008-09-10 04:29:15
U.S. Army Expanding PackBot Contract With iRobot
iRobot has expanded its catalog of military and security robots in recent months, including very small LANdroids used by soldiers in urban settings.
2008-09-07 22:40:08
Exactly What's Under the Chrome, Anyway
News from Portfolio.comAlso on PortfolioSubscribe to Portfolio magazineBob Rice is the author of , and the former C.E.O. of a tech startup. He now runs merchant bank Tangent Capital, which he founded in 2005.Love 'em to death, but here's the thing to remember about Google: Your business is its business. Google doesn't sell software or hardware or content. It sells you -- or, slightly more precisely, its ability to understand your habits and deliver your attention to particular advertisers. And because of this, I am just a touch nervous about installing Chrome, its new browser software.Of course, Google already collects mountains of information about you from your searches you do realize they keep track of those, right, and from the huge cookie collection delivered fresh daily by their ad bakery the cookie gathers information from all Google products and affiliates -- and doesn't expire until 2038. Gmail users may also have long ago realized they were conceding privacy for convenience and bells and whistles.Indeed, Google has far more and better data about your habits than the relatively modest amounts that set of privacy firestorms for AOL and DoubleClick which Google now owns back in the day. But so far, with Google, it's been like successfully boiling a frog: the temperature has gone up very slowly, so nobody's jumped out of the pot just yet.Perhaps that's because Google offers so many wonderful services. Who wants to head out without checking the traffic with Google Maps oops, more footprints Or plan an event without checking everybody's calendar oy...At first glance, Chrome seems just another browser -- and between us, who cares IE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome -- one has more cup-holders, another has leather trim. So is the idea really just to take a piece of the "browser business," as many say I doubt it, largely because there isn't one: Nobody's paid for browser software since about 1998. Firefox, remember, is the product of a nonprofit -- one that, interestingly, has been heavily funded by Google, for reasons previously unknown.At first, Google's goal will be to change the software game and speed your transition from a desktop-driven environment to its "cloud computing" applications: word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software. Google hopes that soon, you'll create these documents on one computer, leave them on their servers in the sky, and then continue working on them later from any other computer. Natch, you'll collaborate, share and deliver the docs this way, too. And Chrome will be the interface for it all, on top of serving more mundane web surfing functions.And all the while, Google will be doing the usual, capturing your data, your documents, your habits.And, how will they use all this information To do what they do: deliver ever more precisely targeted ads, with concomitant higher response rates, and thus generate more dollars. Maybe we'll see "This cell sponsored by Fidelity" in our spreadsheets soon.Sure, other companies are in position to track your data, too. The difference is that, for the most part, their business models don't require them to exploit that knowledge. And certainly nobody has the reach that Google has and will have -- especially after they eliminate your last ability to hide with the G-phone this fall.Now we know Big Brother's real name, do we care Free software and services are great, and I'd rather see relevant ads than irrelevant ones. But make no mistake: this lunch, too, has a real cost. It's called privacy.So that's the question consumers have to answer: Is it worth it If they genuinely don't care about one company controlling a complete catalog of their surfing and working, talking and texting, and meetings and greetings, fine. For me, I think I'd rather pay cash and avoid a virtual peeping Tom who only makes money if he predicts my private behavior well. But, then, I admit it: I'm so 2005.So, shine up your computer with Chrome if you like; but at least consider getting that "Do No Evil" promise in writing first.
2008-09-06 07:14:08