No sneaky sharing (but do go!)

Last night I ended up checking out the Junior League of Toronto's 2009 Showhouse at McLean House, and all I can say is WOW! More than 50 design teams put their best foot forward creating incredibly inspiring spaces, and with the ticket price of $25 I hafta say you'll definitely be getting your money's worth. Sadly I can't share any of the spaces on the blog (no matter how sneaky I might be) since they're destined for the Oct /09 issue of Canadian House & Home, so you'll just have to head and check the Showhouse in person. For more info click here, and to buy tickets click here, and to check out some behind the scenes action courtesy of House & Home click here. I have my faves (Katherine Newman, Kimberley Seldon, Jeanette Hlinka, Anne Hepfer, and Wiklem Design to name a few), but if you do go, please let me know which were your standouts! [Image: Canadian House & Home]

A bit more Kips

Where did the warm weather go? It's totally looking all drab and grey out there, and yesterday there was a little too much horizontal rain for my liking. Time for a bit more fantasyland inspiration then from the Kips Bay Show House in NYC. This looks to be the pretty much last of it that is really my cup of tea (the rest is a tad fusty), though I'm still jonesing to see the whole thing in person. In the meantime I'll be traipsing through another glam showhouse soon enough - The Junior Leaugue of Toronto Showhouse, which will be running May 8th through to the 31st. Participating designers include Jeanette Hlinka, Katherine Newman and Timothy Mather; so it promises to be completely worth checking out!

The couple of rooms below totally have a thing for colour. The first is a bright living room designed by Eileen Kathryn Boyd (love that Homegrown Green rug by Edward Barber and Jay Ogersby for The Rug Company). The second is a bolthole designed for a swank recessionista by interior designer Christopher Coleman and fashion designer Angel Sanchez that's kitted out with an electric blue astroturf carpet and includes a slightly over-the-top mirror-polished steel ping-pong table (really!).

Via House Beautiful and Habitually Chic