At Home with Kim Vallee

ENTERTAINING, HOLIDAY decorations | October 11, 2009

Christmas Decor Trends from Christmasworld 2009

Every year, Christmasworld dedicated a section of their fair to 4 trends that represent customers’ desires according to style expert. The general theme for Christmas 2009-2010 is “Express your dreams”. It is declined in 4 decorating trends: Airy, Sweet, Comfort and Obsession. Each trend also represents a season. So feel free to be inspired by [...]

DINING, EATING out | June 30, 2009

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Restaurants are Embracing Twitter to Reach their Customers

I told you on my other blog that Twitter can be an efficient marketing vehicle for businesses. One type of business that benefits well from the free marketing platform that Twitter provides are local restaurants. What I like is that I decide which local stores and restaurants I want to follow on Twitter. This way, I [...]

COOKING tools, DINING | April 3, 2009

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Bright Colors in the Kitchen at the Home and Housewares Show

Yesterday I browsed the photo coverage on Core77 of the 2009 International Home and Housewares Show that happened March 22 to March 24 at the McCormick Center in Chicago, IL. One common element is that the new housewares products are available in a big spectrum of happy colors. I like that! Although there are many European [...]

DINING, TABLEWARE | March 29, 2009

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Spring 2009 Color Trends

I took the pictures of the citrus solid dinnerware set as I came back from dinner last night. It happens that it matches the Mini Iced Easter Cookies at Williams-Sonoma. The carrot, chick and bunny cookies have a delicate lemon flavor. I spot the Mix & Max dinnerware collection by Maxwell & Williams available [...]

DINING | March 18, 2009

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Less Eating Out, More Home Cooking for my Gastronomic Wednesday

I had good words for the home cooking trend last January. With many recent cookbooks preached a back to basics culinary approach and a change in our eating out habits, simple home cooking grows in popularity. To prove my point, the March 2009 edition of delicious revealed drastic changes in food shopping and food consumption over [...]

HOME + GARDEN, KITCHEN design | March 6, 2009

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Social Kitchen Design for my Friday’s Quick Links 2009.03.06

The best trend that happen in kitchen design has to be the social kitchen. By social kitchen, we mean a kitchen space that acts as the hub of a house. You aim for bring the outside in and vice versa. + The excellent kitchen designer Susan Serra of The Kitchen Designer shares her top social kitchen [...]

HOME + GARDEN, HOME decor, TRENDS | February 18, 2009

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Color Ball Accessories Cheer Up Your Home | High and Low

If you cannot splurge in the mid-century iconic clock by George Nelson or the Eames Hang-It-All coat rack, UK retailers Heal’s sells a Saturnus magazine rack and a coat rack. The Saturnus coat rack looks so so but maybe it is the picture. They are not as sophisticated as the iconic pieces but at [...]

DINING, EATING out | January 28, 2009

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A Call for Smaller Plates | Food Trends 2009

I continue on my report of Food trends for 2009 with a topic dear to my heart because it influenced our well-being. A return to home cooking done with affordable ingredients and smaller plates should materialize in 2009. The home cooking trend is not just about money saving. It is also triggered by our desire to [...]