Kandy Blog

It all started with a feeling that her home, even though it is right in the heart of downtown Toronto, should give her a little respite from the city. And because Cheryl Torrenueva spends her waking hours immersed in interior design for other people, she couldn’t help but visualize ideas for her own balcony “The […]

KANDY is represented in the summer 2014 edition of Condo Elite Modern Living through a "guest editorial" focused on the trends we are seeing for urban outdoor spaces. We were honoured to have been asked and pleased with the result. I first became aware of the Condo Elite Modern Living magazine when it arrived in my condo […]

We hear it from clients all the time: their new outdoor flooring has given them more usable square footage than they had before. Developers and builders seem to have ignored this space over the last few decades. But as we urbanize, living closer together, and more and more of us choose to live in the smaller […]

Spring arrives at different times and in different temperaments depending on where you live. Coastal, inland, Canada, or the U.S. One common denominator is that if the weather is cold, grey, wet or dreary, and you look outside to your condo balcony to see more wet, dirty concrete, you are not going to feel much […]

Nothing compares to the feeling I get when raving reviews come in from our customers. But facing the Dragons (of Dragons’ Den) comes close! It has been one of my most exciting and memorable entrepreneurial experiences. Whether our segment actually airs is something we won’t know until Season 9 premieres later this fall. Still, it […]

Now that KANDY’s booth (#2805) at the 10-day National Home Show, on through March 23 at the Direct Energy Centre at Exhibition Place, we thought it might be helpful to post a bit of a summary of the most common questions we get asked when we’re at GTA home shows. Can we put KANDY product […]

Trading in driveways and shovels and roof repairs for a view, a short walk to restaurants and the theatre, and a warm dry car every time you get in it. Trading your backyard and lawnmower for a smaller outdoor space – your balcony – and a view. If this sounds familiar, you’re probably about to, […]

Let’s talk! KANDY at Toronto’s International Home & Garden Show March 6 -9 While the city grits its teeth and steels itself to get through what is surely the last cold stretch of this #@#:!@ winter, at KANDY Toronto we’re gearing up for getting OUTSIDE! A big part of that “gearing up” is our tradeshow […]

We all know that a condominium, or condo, refers to a single building structure that contains numerous individually owned units along with common elements or areas that are collectively owned. That’s the practical explanation and it applies right across Canada, regardless of which province you are in.  How we talk about them differs slightly depending on […]

At KANDY we LOVE spring time. Ok, we know it is technically still winter, but we are SO ready for spring. And it is about more than grass and birds and sunshine… it is also about all those expanded home experiences we’re going to create for clients we haven’t even met yet. Spring is also […]