– by Terri Heal, Pacific Paints – Now that winter is here and we’re indoors most of the day, we start to look at our walls and realize that without the warm dappled light of the summer sun, they can look as dull as dishwater. We next think that painting would be a good idea […]
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– by Barry Mathias – This is part of a rotating series of articles on members of Sidney Meet Up Women’s Networking Group, featuring women in business on the Saanich Peninsula. “My passion is beauty,” says Katie Kroeker, who, with her husband and business partner Merle Kroeker, established Pacific Ridge Landscapes in Sidney just a year
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– by Deborah Rogers | Photography by nuttycake.com – Nature’s Retreat has a Built Green Platinum house certification (third-party awarded) for being energy efficient and environmentally responsible. From the very beginning of the design process it was important to its owners that they made the building process low-impact, and the house as energy efficient as
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– by Colin Eaton, Garden City Tree and Landscape – Years of landscape experience has allowed me the ability to visualize a completed landscape at the very outset and before any groundbreaking. Part of my job is communicating that vision to the client. Problems can arise if a client or employees are having difficulties visualizing
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– by Mike & Lisa Dunsmuir, Step One Design – “According to Stats Canada, 15% of all workers in Canada are self employed, they account for about one-half of those who work at home. In 2008, 60% of self-employed workers did paid work at home.” (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-008-x/2011001/article/11366-eng.htm#a11.) Speaking from experience, working from home isn’t always what
