Lynn Spence 

Cityline’s Interior Design & Fashion Expert 

All About Style

Invest in your home, whether you're budget is tight as a drum or free and easy. Your home should reflect your personal style. Trends come and go, but classics look great when mixed with clever trends. Style expert Lynn Spence showed us how to combine great style on any budget.   

Bev Bell

Home Hardware’s Paint Expert

Dream It! Paint It! Love It!  

Bev Bell is the Creative Director for Home Hardware's Paint and Home Products Division. A decor writer for Home at Home magazine, Bev also makes frequent guest appearances on television shows such as CityLine, Canadian House and Home, Breakfast TV and on her local station, CKCO-TV. Bev is an active member of the Color Marketing Group an international organization that tracks colour and design trends, and the National Paint Designers Association, Bev is a much sought after speaker about home decor and design and decorating trends.  Fashionable, fresh trend ideas to make you fall in love with your home all over again.  

William MacDonald

Style Expert  

Kitchen Trends
We found out how to make our kitchens really cook with William MacDonald as he forecasted the key trends and forwarded design directions for what is considered the most popular room in the house, the kitchen! With his extensive background in interior design coupled with his witty anecdotes and images of his recent work, we had the recipe to make our kitchen taste great! 

Karl Lohnes 

CTV's Canada AM’s Home Expert 

Easy Decorating Trends
Karl showed us the latest decor trends for and how to incorporate them into your home without breaking the bank. We had all of our decorating questions answered live at the show! We were encouraged to bring our pictures to this seminar.

Vicky Sanderson

Toronto Star columnist & Home product expert

Cost Cutting Kitchen Gadgets

Everyone’s watching what they spend these days. But pinching pennies doesn’t have to mean short-changing the family on tasty, healthy meals. And in this time-starved world, it shouldn’t translate into more work and extra food preparation for the family chef.  Vicky demonstrated kitchen counter-top appliances and gadgets that saved time and money, without sacrificing taste. She’ll also shared tips and tricks on easy, innovate ways to cut costs in the kitchen.

Yvonne Williams 

Total Confidence  

Deck Rejuvenation & A Spring Facelift for Your Home!
Give your deck a facelift! Visitors at this seminar, learned the tricks of the trade to staining and sprucing up their decks and getting ready for the backyard entertaining season. Welcome Spring into and around your house- learn proper painting techniques for the interior and exterior.

Melissa Maker 

Clean My Space 

Environmentally friendly cleaning products.

Jay Purvis & Neil Davis 

The Fix Contractors & Professional Pranksters from the HGTV hit series THE FIX 
DIY Made Easy
Jay and Neil inspired people with practical DIY solutions for their reno needs. DIY can be the only alternative for many hard working families wanting to update their space, and who better than this reno punk'd team to show people the right way and the very wrong way to do it. From practical no nonsense explanations and fun stories,  this witty daring duo showed you the proper way to update key rooms like kitchens and bathrooms without breaking the bank. Ridiculous time saving short cuts, shoddy materials & cost cutting mistakes were explored - making people aware of the pit falls and affordable alternatives to many home makeover projects. 

Alison Griffiths
Host of W Network’s MAXED OUT & Financial Expert 

Cleaning Your Financial Closet
Our financial lives are incredibly complex and confusing. As a result our financial closets, like our clothes closets, become cluttered with stuff we don’t understand and don’t know what to do with. A spring clean up is in order to get you on track!
Visitors found out the major mistakes they made in their financial lives and how to rectify them. Alison gave effective strategies to maximize equity in your home while at the same time tilting against common held ideas about real estate, renovations and making your house your home. 

Massimo Capra

Entertain Tuscan Style 
Spring entertaining with heart warming Tuscan cuisine, simple easy delicious and budget friendly. Sometimes we are so busy trying to make a living that we forget to live, to make time to cook good, fresh, local and in season food should not be a chore but a naturally occurring event in every family and it does not have to take a lot of time.

Jason Parsons

Wine and Food, the Joy of Life
Jason Parsons of Peller Estates and a Cityline regular,  showed us how to enjoy the best in wine and food. He demonstrated 3 dishes and what wines are best. Jason and a sommelier from Peller Estates shared  tips on buying and pairing wine with food. Cheers!

Robert Rainford

Turkey: Grilled not Baked
We watched as celebrity TV chef, Chef Robert Rainford showed us how to use a healthy turkey and include ingredients that your whole family will love.  Turkey is not only for special occasions or for your oven, but all year round and for your BBQ.

Chef Dean Michielsen  Liaison College

Winter Comfort Foods for the Everyday Gourmet
We joined Chef Dean as he whiped up his award winning recipe from the Steam Whistle Beer Recipe Contest.
Slow Food – Taste Local, Taste Fresh Chef Dean and Liaison College showed us how to be “green” in your kitchen.
Super Soups for the Seasons Liaison College cooked up ideas to keep us in season with soups and local produce.
Spring into Spring Rolls We were all  inspired with the tastiest wraps to entertain and enjoy by the chefs of Liaison College.

Tony Aspler 

Enjoying Wine

Tony shared his experience and demonstration with the audience how to taste wine like a pro. There was two demonstrations at  3pm and 6pm on Thursday. 

The 2009 Décor Design Gallery

The Décor Design Gallery, sponsored by Walls, Windows Furnishings Association, featured experts in the world of décor and design.  These professionals helped us with any decorating dilemmas. Visitors took a journey into a world of style and colour.  They discovered the newest trends and the latest styles.  If you were looking to update your home, this is one feature you just could not afford to miss.  

While there..........

 Visitors enjoyed FREE Interior Décor Advice at the “Ask A Designer” Consultation Booth !

Members of the Walls, Windows Furnishings Association were on hand to answer your questions and offer great advice. Homeowners could bring samples, pictures, questions and plans with them and enjoy a FREE 15 minute consultation with a qualified professional interior decorator.   

Sponsored by:

Great Ideas to Live Better, Naturally in the 

GREEN STREET PAVILION

	We were proud to announce that the International Home & Garden Show has been recognized as the first Canadian Consumer Shows to put a concentrated emphasis on GREEN, ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY, ECO BUILD and ENERGY SAVING products
The Green Street Pavilion sponsored by enersource, was your one-stop shopping solution for a GREEN home makeover.  If you had any questions, our knowledgeable exhibitors had all the answers in a 30,000 sq. ft. eco-marketplace.		Sponsored by:

Escape to Patio, Pool & Spa World  

Featuring the Outdoor Living Pavilion

Are you ready for Summer and Backyard Entertaining? We explored Patio, Pool & Spa World, and discovered over 30,000 sq. ft. of outdoor treasures which included: pools, spas, hot tubs, fencing, decking, outdoor furniture, barbecues, leisure products and more.

Sponsored by:         

Kitchen & Bath Showcase.

If you’re looking to build a second home or have a building/renovation question, we had experienced exhibitors who could answer our questions.  Renovation World, located in Hall 2, emphasized the most up-to-date building, renovating and home improvement products.  Visitors strolled over to Hall 3 to meet Canada’s Best Home Builders on Dream Builder’s Walk.

2 Show Adventures 1 Show Admission !

While at the International Home & Garden Show you could visit the 17^th Annual Successful Gardening Show at no extra charge,  featuring the Gardener’s Dream Marketplace, the Ontario Horticultural Association’s Floral Design & Plant Competition, the Ontario Gardener Seminar Stage, the Awesome Tropical Rainforest and much more.  Also, performance artist Daryl Maddeaux from Rock On Rock created an awe-inspiring rock mountain that defies gravity right before your eyes.