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CONTRIBUTORS
                                                                                                 WHAT RENOVATIONS
                                                                                             WOULD YOU LOVE TO DO?















                                                                                             SABRINA LINN: “I recently finished a major reno
                                                                                             [featured in H&H, August 2009], so now I’m just
                                                                                             redecorating. Simply rearranging furniture can
                                                                                             transform a space…and it’s free!”
                                                                                             A sought-after designer, Sabrina works for private
                                                                                             clients, magazines and several HGTV design shows.
                                                                                             Born in Montreal, she decamped to Toronto 10
                                                                                             years ago where she now designs a line of colourful
                                                                                             vintage-inspired fabrics and pillows, as she did for
                                                                                             this issue's “Weekend Decorating” (page 72).















             visit us for beautiful handcrafted tiles and unique stone floors                NANCY TONG: “I’d love to knock down the wall in our
                                                                                             kitchen. My husband has a real green thumb — it would
                                                                                             be great to open up the space to the garden.”
                                                                                             A great job perk for veteran photographer Nancy,
                                                                                             who shot one of the bathrooms in this issue’s “The

                                                                                             Spa Effect” (page 66), is seeing into people’s houses,
                                                                                             as she has long been fascinated by design and how
                                                                                             others live. She lives with her husband and two small
                                                                                             children in Toronto, and spends her down time in
                                                                                             the studio experimenting with ceramics.






                                    NEW LOCATION






                                                                                             EMILY NORRIS: “My husband and I are adding a
                                                                                             beautiful, simple boxy space onto our house. It has


                                                                                             polished concrete floors and floor-to-ceiling windows.”
                                                                                             After 12 years working in the magazine world
                                                                                             (including here at H&H), Toronto-based Emily
                                                                                             decided to switch gears. For the past few years   Text by Catherine MacIntosh
                                                                                             she has been a full-time real-estate agent, freelance
                                                                                             writer and prop stylist, as well as mom to three
                                                                                             children under the age of five. For this issue,

                 TOORAK TILE & DESIGN                                                        she wrote “The Spa Effect” (page 66).

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