national home show...

A couple of days ago my dad and i accomplished some serious father - daughter bonding when we took the day off to go to toronto to see the national home show and the leafs game. The day was amazing. Camera in hand, we took almost 4 hours to walk through all of the exhibitors at the direct energy centre and every time i turned around there was something cool to look at.

The show mainly consisted of kitchen and bathroom appliances, cabinets and design ideas but there were tons of other unexpected things! Check out these totally amazing bathroom fixtures! There seemed to be a lot of green going around and this green and white vanity with the cone-shaped sink was definitely standing out!

this egg-shaped tub was HUGE. A lot bigger than the picture is making it seem for sure. it also looks surprisingly comfortable and i secretly wanted to climb inside and try it out.

This was a shiny, bright orange piano. I want one just like it in my place but that is an investment i am not prepared for. Later on in the show i found a lime green and white one just like this! uh-maze-ing!

oh, and just for those tough work days, a steam shower complete with multi-directional rain shower heads is always a key element in any bathroom! HELLO!

again with the green/white theme! LOVE this table/chair set 

this tub leaves nothing to the imagination. You'd never want to place this directly in front of any windows in the house. Again, this tub is much larger than it seems in the picture, and the funny thing is, my dad actually is interested in getting this for my parents house when they renovate the main bathroom! 

this chandelier and tub caught my eye (along with everyone else's at the show i'm sure) i think they're both beautiful, but mainly just the light fixture. 

these sings are one thing I KNOW i'm going to have in my house one day. I love the free-standing bowls and the amount of character that each one has. Some of them even have faucets that seem like water running out of a stream into them. 

 Alright, so there's a story behind these coooool little bead things. I saw this stand from a mile away and bee-lined it, tuning into one of the sales people who was already in the middle of explaining the product to another potential customer. Basically what they are, are these little hard beads (various colour) that you buy and immerse in water. The water is absorbed into them and they expand and get transparent. It is a soil replacement for small potted plants or cut flowers and they last about a year to a year and a half. for $20 I bought 6 packages, each package being a different colour. I'm am WAY too excited about these little things!

 This bed was pretty amazing. Without moving anything off of the desk (including a cup of water) the whole thing folds out and the bed magically appears! then it folds up again into virtually nothing! pretty great alternative to a murphy bed!

These were only some of the things I saw, there was literally so much to take in, it was almost overwhelming. I DID however, get a new shower head for the apt thanks to my father!! It's heavenly - adjustable rain shower head (HUGE - i might add... so now my mornings are a little more pleasant!) :)