August 24, 2023
August 24, 2023
July 24, 2023
July 24, 2023
Barley and Smoke, one of the most fun Calgary food events of the year, is back for summer of 2023. Drawing together Calgary’s top chefs and brew masters, this is also the Grillin’ for a Cure fundraiser, raising money for Kids Cancer Care.
June 08, 2022
July 22, 2021
Giving back to the community is at the heart of how Divine Flooring does business.
In 2000, Divine Flooring president and CEO Carlos Soares was diagnosed with cancer and experienced all the challenges that accompany treatment. Despite the hurdles he faced personally, he couldn’t stop thinking about how challenging the cancer experience is for kids. That’s why Divine Flooring launched its own charity fundraiser in 2019 — Barley & Smoke — to raise money for Kids Cancer Care Alberta.
Barley & Smoke is all about “grillin’ for a cure.” In 2019, the event raised more than $115,000 for Kids Cancer Care Alberta. It returns for the second time on August 28, 2021, with the goal to raise $150,000. Local breweries will compete for the Best Beer title, while Calgary restaurants like Cluck ‘n’ Cleaver will compete for titles like Best Hand-Held. In addition to sampling lots of great barbeque and sipping on local craft beers, attendees can also expect musical entertainment from Alberta artists like Maddison Krebs.
But what makes this fundraiser truly unique is how several Calgary companies work together and donate their time, resources and expertise to build kid-sized structures for Camp Kindle, the camp Kids Cancer Care Alberta operates.
For the inaugural event, five reading forts were designed and built by Calgary companies specifically for the kids attending Camp Kindle. Those forts were then exhibited at the event for attendees to admire before being sent to the camp.
“They were a really big success at the camp with the kids. When we were discussing how the forts could be different [this year], Kids Cancer Care came up with the idea of creating a Western town for the kids to play in,” says Barb Walters, the volunteer project manager of the Western town exhibit.
This year, five interior design companies and five builders are collaborating to construct kid-sized, Western-themed structures. (Two companies are based in Saskatchewan, while the other eight are all Calgary companies.) Like a Spaghetti Western movie set, there will be a sheriff’s office and jail, a bakery café, a theatre, a saloon, and a tailor and dress-up shop. Just like last time, these creative structures will be displayed for Barley & Smoke attendees to admire and interact with before they’re sent to Camp Kindle.
For Keegan Morrone, president and CEO of the local architecture and interior design studio AstonMorrone Designs, getting involved in this project was a no-brainer — even during a busy-than-ever work season.
“These kids’ lives have been drastically impacted by something that they have no control over,” says Morrone. “If we’re able to help them just live their lives and take their mind off of [their cancer experience], then we’re willing to do anything we can.”
AstonMorrone Designs is collaborating with the local builder Zen Custom Homes on the sheriff’s office and jail. They’re not giving away any secrets, but Barley & Smoke attendees can expect an interactive structure designed in a way that will have both kids and adults wanting to join in the make-believe fun. A few of the other participating businesses include Martin Lee Design, West Ridge Fine Homes and Louis Duncan-He Designs.
“We are thrilled to be a part of the Barley & Smoke fundraiser,” say Stephanie Martin and Mae Lee Logullo of Martin Lee Design. “It is our hope that the children get lost in the magic of these fun playhouses, and that it reminds everyone how important it is to just be a kid, even during trying times.”
The only way to see what the 10 businesses have thoughtfully created for Camp Kindle kids is to attend Barley & Smoke this August!
Barley & Smoke will take place at Enmax Park on August 28 from 4pm to 9pm. Tickets start at $75 and go on sale July 15. Thanks to Rangeland RV, Calbridge Homes, and all platinum sponsors for making this event happen. For more information, visit barleysmoke.ca.
June 01, 2021
Designer Jamie Beckwith challenges the way people think about wood as a surfacing material in interiors.
A trendsetter in luxury interior design, Beckwith is shaking up the male dominated wood industry with her fluid and feminine wooden patterns. Substituting straight lines for curves and creating shapes in lieu of planks, her patterns are reshaping expectations, both literally and figuratively.
Unlike conventional flooring planks, Wave from the Enigma Collection by Jamie Beckwith has a fluidity and curved shape.
Beckwith’s Variations Collection, created in collaboration with Jeff Andrews, stemmed out of a passion for dance and rhythm along with a deep appreciation for sculpture and its ability to ground a space. As former professional dancers, Beckwith and Andrews are inspired by designs that emulate motion, as well as ones that have the ability to turn a flat surface into a dimensional work of art.
Arches pattern is made of two individual tile designs that create a continuous feather shape inspired by a female dancer en pointe.
The collection Ingresso comes alive with illustrations by artist Hannah Chan
Beckwith’s fashion-forward sensibility and eye for details is exemplified in the Couture Collection, a design collaboration between the Jamie Beckwith Collection and Windsor Smith. This inventive wood surfacing collection for walls and floors redefines iconic patterns, ranging from traditional chevrons to cubist-inspired trompe l’oeil parquets, and includes exquisite details like perfect seams and metal embellishments.
A signature joinery technique of Windsor’s was used to create the stylish seam of the Zip It! pattern.
An industry first, Jamie Beckwith Collection pioneered the manufacturing technique to marry nailheads with wood surfacing.
The Jamie Beckwith Collection is now available at Divine Flooring Showroom locations.
May 13, 2021
September 01, 2020
With a wide selection and knowledgeable staff, Divine Flooring can help create inspired spaces at every budget.
Janelle Erickson and Stephanie Smith take an entirely collaborative approach to their design work, resulting in projects that benefit from the pair’s dynamic strengths and variety of influences.
At their boutique interior design studio, SmithErickson Designs, the duo pulls from their combined expertise to create inspired spaces for their clientele, exemplified in their vintage foyer vignette at Calgary’s Divine Flooring Showroom. Starting with Divine’s Cosmopolitan Naked oak hardwood, the foyer was assembled to create a lasting first impression through timeless design and decor choices.
Here, Smith and Erickson explore how they worked to evoke a vintage Parisian feel in the vignette, and how Divine Flooring can help realize a vision while staying within your budget.
Janelle Erickson: We were asked to design an interior space with Divine [as part of the #Reveal2018 series], which we drew from a box for. And we were fortunate enough to get vintage and foyer.
Stephanie Smith: We were very excited to get the foyer because we feel it’s the first impression to your home, so we had this opportunity to create this very grand and elegant space as you walked in.
JE: With the blonde oak, we drew inspiration from Parisian apartments. We started pulling up photos and really appreciating moulding details. We felt like that was really important to add texture and depth to our foyer.
SS: With the Parisian theme, we also really drew inspiration in laying floors in different patterns. So this particular floor has a chevron pattern, which offers a very old-world feel.
JE: With our designs, we like to juggle with the highs and lows. So we don’t like to keep it consistent with lower price point materials, because we find it will sort of read that way. You balance it — you bring in a higher price point floor, but balance it out in different materials with a lower price point.
We actually do, a lot of the time, start with flooring. So if it’s a renovation that we’re doing — say a main floor or a kitchen renovation — we’ll start with the floor and work from the ground up. Divine has huge selection, so it’s always a great starting point, from our darks to our lights, narrow planks to wider planks, as well as different materials like LVP (luxury vinyl plank).
SS: LVP is a great budget friendly option, too. It’s a great alternative that looks just like hardwood.
Wood Option: Naked Chevron, European Oak / Cosmopolitan Collection
Wood Option: Naked Planks, European Oak / Cosmopolitan Collection
Wood Option: Natural Oak / Amarosa Collection MSRP
Vinyl Option: California Dreamin’ / Voyage II Collection MSRP
JE: When we bring in a client, even the finishes in the showroom are clean and crisp, so it’s really easy to envision and to see the flooring as its own. It really highlights the natural tones, the colouring in it, it’s a nice clean slate.
SS: If you come down to Divine, they have a lot of knowledgeable staff that will be able to help you out, and so many products to look at on any budget — from affordable options to high-end alternatives. This is a great starting point to start your renovation and get some ideas.
Divine Flooring is headquartered in Rocky View, AB and is a curator and service provider of flooring and accessories specializing in engineered hardwood, luxury vinyl and laminate with some supplemental tile and carpet.
In its flagship showroom in Calgary, the company has six in-store vignettes to help inspire the consumer along their floor purchasing journey. Each vignette is fashioned after a distinctive style theme: traditional, Hollywood Regency, vintage, rustic, modern and minimal.
Find luxury for every budget at divinefloor.com
August 06, 2020
Through a wide array of options, Divine Flooring helps create elegant spaces at any price point.
Alykhan Velji has become a mainstay in the Calgary design community, creating residential and commercial interiors that brim with signature energy and character.
Faced with the challenge of adding his signature flair to a Regency-style bar vignette at Divine Flooring’s Calgary showroom, Velji and his team from Alykhan Velji Designs (AVD) worked from the ground up based on the Montpellier hardwood from Divine’s Louis XIV collection. The result is a space that blends comfort and luxury through carefully curated contrasting materials, textures and patterns.
In conversation, Velji reflects on the design at Divine’s showroom and how creating a classic, luxurious look of your own is attainable regardless of budget.
The vignette that we created for Divine Flooring was based around Regency, so we really wanted it to be a reflection on how AVD likes to design, but also based on the flooring we were given. We love to mix different styles, different patterns and different textures, so we really wanted it to be a reflection as well showing the customer how you can do that — how you can mix metals, how you can mix different woods, and how you can create a bar space that not only looks really chic, but also can be affordable.
Side-by-side: Rendering (using Montpellier Planks, French White Oak) and Alykhan’s Regency style vignette (using Montpellier Parquet, French White Oak)
The feeling that I was trying to evoke is one of luxury. When you think of a bar area, you think of mixing cocktails with friends, entertaining, being happy — so these are definitely kind of the emotions we were trying to reflect in this space.
I think a lot of people when they think about luxury think expense, but that’s not necessarily the case. There are many different ways you can utilize different materials to get that lux look for less.
When it the flooring choice, there is so much available. When you go with a parquet, for example, that’s a little bit more expensive. A straight lay will be less expensive. You can definitely get colours in the same look and same pattern that you want, but for a more affordable price.
Wood Option: Montpellier Parquet, French White Oak / Louis XIV Collection MSRP $21.99 / sqft
Wood Option: Montpellier Planks, French White Oak / Louis XIV Collection MSRP $14.99 / sqft
Wood Option: Icicle, European Oak / Cosmopolitan Collection MSRP $9.99 / sqft
Vinyl Option: Bocaccio ’70, Vein Cut Travertine / Passage Collection MSRP $4.69 / sqft
Working with Divine is so fantastic because they offer such a wide range of products. If you find something that is a little higher priced, there’s going to be something in their array of products that will come in on budget and still give you the look you want.
For example, I recently brought in a customer who had selected a floor that was out of their price range. We came in and worked with the amazing staff here and were able to select a floor that came into budget and actually looked a lot better too, so it worked out really well.
Divine Flooring is headquartered in Rocky View, AB and is a curator and service provider of flooring and accessories specializing in engineered hardwood, luxury vinyl and laminate with some supplemental tile and carpet.
In its flagship showroom in Calgary, the company has six in-store vignettes to help inspire the consumer along their floor purchasing journey. Each vignette is fashioned after a distinctive style theme: traditional, Hollywood Regency, vintage, rustic, modern and minimal.
Find luxury for every budget at divinefloor.com
July 09, 2020
Through a wide array of designer options, Divine Flooring helps create breathtaking spaces at any budget.
Designer Nyla Free of Nyla Free Design Inc. has built expertise around delivering masterfully crafted spaces that meet both her clients’ needs and their budgets — a balance that’s assisted by the breadth of options at Divine Flooring.
Free’s craft is currently on display through her traditional powder room vignette at Divine’s Calgary showroom. The vignette incorporates a cohesive use of varying materials to achieve a timeless look, tied together by Divine’s Farmhouse Collection Corsanello hardwood.
Here, Free explains how she approached the vignette, and how working on a budget doesn’t have to mean compromising your vision.
We wanted to create a feeling of a life well-lived and a life well-loved, and a sense that not everything was done all at the same time — maybe the materials and the different layers were added year over year. We were really looking to tell the story of the people who would be enjoying this space.
Side-by-side: Rendering (using African Queen / Voyage Collection in plank format) and Nyla’s traditional powder room vignette (using Corsanello Walnut Hardwood / Farmhouse Collection in Herringbone format).
We were really inspired by the European style — that old-world feel of traditional materials and a focus on the classic, whether it be the colour combinations or timeless materials that never go out of style.
We have the Farmhouse Collection laid in a herringbone pattern in our vignette at Divine, which is more costly as far as the material and installation process is concerned. However, if you wanted to minimize cost, you could apply the same floor in a straight lay situation, which would still look beautiful and would cost less for materials and require less labour.
Divine also has a fantastic vinyl flooring option that is very similar to the overall look, again lowering the cost as well as the installation. So you have three different options here that could still help you achieve a look like this.
I highly recommend talking to the experts at Divine Flooring. They’ll have great insight and advice that will be very useful. Also, take a look at what you currently have. There may be something there that can be given a new lease on life if some things are changed around the room.
In respect to kitchens and bathrooms, if you’re moving plumbing, that is going to add to cost. If you can, use the location where the plumbing is currently. That will definitely result in savings.
The Divine showroom is impeccable. It’s thoughtfully designed, it’s easy to navigate and all of the samples are in one area, which is a fantastic tool that makes it so much easier to determine the exact right floor.
Another great thing about Divine is they have large working tables. They’re a white surface, which gives you the flexibility of looking at different colours and samples on a very clean surface. So you can feel free to bring in anything that you’re working with, whether that is existing materials or inspiration images, or anything that’s already been selected for your space, because those will be great tools as jumping-off points for the team at Divine to help you move forward.
Divine Flooring is headquartered in Rocky View, AB and is a curator and service provider of flooring and accessories specializing in engineered hardwood, luxury vinyl and laminate with some supplemental tile and carpet.
In its flagship showroom in Calgary, the company has six in-store vignettes to help inspire the consumer along their floor purchasing journey. Each vignette is fashioned after a distinctive style theme: traditional, Hollywood regency, vintage, rustic, modern and minimal.
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