UPCOMING EVENTS:

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PAST EVENTS:

How to keep Cool with Warmer Window

Londen Inc. hosted several dozen design professionals to participate in Dayle's seminar on June 22, 2010 in Toronto. 

Dayle took the "Using something warm to keep cool -- isn’t this mutually exclusive?" concept and turned it on its heels with a timely educational seminar on how designers can effectively use their scientific knowledge about window physics to create conduction, radiation, and convection advantages for not only the heat of summer but the cold of winter. The focus on evaluating and selecting the best window products and using effective decorating stategies like Londén’s “Warmer Window Covering” to save clients money, be thermally comfortable and reduce their carbon footprint.  

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"Joy of Contracts" - How to make the experience 'win-win' for you & your clients - February 10, 2010

Brentwood Classics kindly hosted Dayle's Joy of Contracts seminar

Dayle presented this IDCEC accredited seminar to a professional audience of Interior Designers, and Interior Decorators who showed their appreciation with thoughtful questions and a request for more business seminars!

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“De-Greying the Green"
How you can make a difference with sustainable products sourced at SOFA - October 8, 2009

SOFA - Source of Furniture + Accessories presented Dayle to speak to more than 100 design professionals, explaining how they could make a difference sourcing ‘green’ products with confidence and prevent being hooked with ‘greenwashing’ claims. Dayle Laing shared her 21 years in design practice and 19 years of college interior design teaching in a fun, educational and practical seminar. She applied her sustainability principles specifically to some of the fabulous green products available from the showrooms of SOFA. Attendees left with tips for choosing beautiful products that are sustainable, for the benefit of their clients and the environment.

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Green Upholstery Fabrics - Beautiful & Sustainable - April 29, 2009

Brentwood Classics of Vaughan, Canada, presented Dayle Laing

speaking about how to select the best choices for beautiful and sustainable upholstery fabrics to an enthusiastic group of more than 60 Interior Decorators and Interior Designers in a customized 2 hour seminar.  

Dayle answered the following questions:  Do you know why 'green foam' is an advantage?  Do you know what is the best choice for slipcovers?  Should you select natural or synthetic fibres?  Are you clear on what exactly is considered 'green' for upholstery fabric?  Are your clients asking you these questions? Dayle delivered the straight answers to make the attendees more confident design professionals when they are purchasing upholstered furniture for their clients.

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Rugs 101 - Using Beautiful Rugs for Sustainable Design - Feb 17, 2009

The Rug Department kindly hosted Dayle's Rugs 101 Seminar

The first one of her trademark "101" series of seminars was presented to design professionals who wanted to learn straightforward unbiased information on rugs that are best for the home and best for the environment.

Clients want advice that goes beyond the simplicity of "vacuum regularly". Dayle shared her 21 years practicing and teaching design and her passion & research for the sustainable side of rugs in this exciting professional development seminar.  

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