Marble Quad Tray 18Karat - Doris Cheung

Go, Go {Kitchen} Gadget: 2 Top Products

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Sweet solutions for ripening and peeling your favourite fruit.
Barbara Barry & Peter Block Architects

Stage Craft: How To Sell Your House Quick

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What you need to subtract + add to sell your home quickly.
PS Maskros pendant lamps

These 3 Paper Pendant Lights Are Must Haves

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Nothing makes a unlit corner or a dining room come alive quicker and with more personality than a show-stopping pendant lamp (or three). These inexpensive paper versions are more than up to the task.

Win Two Heritage House Tour Tickets

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Subscribe or Invite a friend to receive Frugalbits FREE daily email by MAY 27, and be entered to win 2 tickets to Vancouver’s 2011 Heritage House Tour (value $80).
Blue Trees - Konstantin Dimopoulos

Shocking Colour Will Make Your Garden Pop

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A jolt of crazy colour is an unexpected and inexpensive way to make your garden pop.
Fiam Caadre Mirror

Luxury Lovers Will Heart This Moving Sale

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Livingspace Interiors is having the mother of all moving sales, and the prices for high-end merchandise are surprisingly low.
Nepeta, 'Walker's Low'

This Variety Of Nepeta Is A Bulletproof Plant

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A gorgeous, indestructible, low maintenance, high performance, cost effective garden: Is that too much to ask? Turns out the answer is no when you plant Nepeta 'Walker's Low'.
Swimming Pool With Infinity Edge

Home Upgrades That Really Don’t Pay Off

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What not to renovate: three projects that experts say just aren’t worth your time (or money).
Beautiful Ming Vase

Ming Got A Ding? Where To Get It Fixed

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Antique china is irreplaceable—but if it breaks, it can be fixed in Vancouver, and so can pottery, glass, crystal and ivory.
HomeSense Lampshades - Casey Phaisalakani

Where To Find Well Made Lampshades

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Where does a shopper have to go to get a decent lampshade in this town? If the town is Vancouver, then the store is HomeSense.
Garden Hose

Never Buy A Cheap Garden Hose—Ever!

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Horror and torment can come into play when you buy an inferior product. For me, the nightmare began when I purchased my Yardworks vinyl hose from Canadian Tire.

3 Top Trends In Gardening Right Now

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People are talking about perennial vegetables, backyard fowl and compost as rich as a Middle East despot—and we've got the scoop.

Make Magic: Put String Lights In The Garden

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Inexpensive strings of lights in the garden make it feel magical, inviting and fun.

A No-Fail Way To Get Kids To Turn Off Lights

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There is a painless way to get your kids (or anyone else in your house) to turn off the light when they leave a room.

Paint & Install This Glass Guard Yourself

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Annoyed by the high cost of back-painting and installing the glass behind her gas range, this adventurous renovator took on the task herself.

Top Up Your Old Silver Service For Less

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Where to find the missing pieces for your grandmother's old silver service for less.
Coco Rocha & James Conran

Decorating Secret Of The Stars: Multiply

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What do supermodel Coco Rocha, superstar writer/artist Douglas Coupland and super designer/TV personality Kelly Deck have in common besides B.C. roots? They know how to multiply.
Areaware Candlesticks

Useful + Fun Gifts For Design Aficionados

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From trend-setting Areaware, 3 inexpensive, purposeful home products for picky design loving types.
Kelly Deck

Kelly Deck’s Top Sources For Home Decor & More

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Top Vancouver interior designer and media personality Kelly Deck shares great + affordable sources for stylish things for your home. including poppytalkhandmade.com, Collage Collage and more.
Tennis balls

Clean Down Comforters & Jackets Easily—At Home

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Drycleaners have their place to be sure, but paying them to clean and re-fluff your down comforters and jackets when you can do it yourself with minimal effort is silly.
Alda Pereira

Shop With Alda Pereira, Designer Of The Year

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Frugalbits goes shopping with Alda Pereira, western Canada's 2010 interior designer of the year.
Chris Greenawalt Trespa Countertop - Kate McElwee

3 Stylish, Less Expensive Kitchen Countertops

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An expensive countertop can make a kitchen look predictable. We have the solution—and it comes pretty cheap.
Beautiful, Rich Compost

Nutrient-Rich Compost Is Free & Simple To Make

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Nutrient-rich compost is easy to make at home, plus it's absolutely free. Felicity Stone explains shares her dead simple recipe.
Clothes line with colourful pegs

Why You Need A Clothesline In Your Life

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The clothes dryer is the home appliance second only to the refrigerator in energy consumption. Save your clothes, cash and the environment with an indoor or outdoor clothesline.