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KITKA design toronto
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We created this toronto design blog with the intention of sharing our favourite home related design spaces, places, people and things. More importantly, this blog serves as a venue for you, the reader, to do the same. So feel free to contribute!
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Cottage Update: Kitchen counters and trim work

Another day at the cottage and this time we removed the old blue MDF counter and replaced it with some nice birch counter tops. These are so easy to make because you don’t have to worry about l...

1 day ago 2 people like this

Guest cottage – painting the ceiling

Another Thursday and we’re crossing a lot of the big ones off of our “to-do list”. This time around we had to rent a paint sprayer and paint the entire wood ceiling (although nice, ...

26 may 12

Guest Cottage – Successful sanding

I hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend. Our weekend started Thursday morning when we took off to the cottage for two days, unfortunately we had to come back to work for the weekend. This time w...

20 may 12 2 people like this

Guest cottage – sanding disaster

We never got around to doing our cottage update, simply because we didn’t have the most successful day renovating. We started by renting a couple of sanders to refinish the original stained pin...

16 may 12

CONTACT 2012: Per Kristiansen, Piles

On Saturday we hosted photography Per Kristiansen at our shop for the opening of his show “Piles”. This is the second time we had the pleasure to host Per’s work for contact, you mi...

10 may 12

Per Kristiansen, Piles

Tonight! Opening party for Per Kristiansen’s Piles, a part of the CONTACT Photography Festival. Per installed the show last night and it looks fantastic in the showroom. There will be opening p...

05 may 12

Guest cottage renovation, week two

Yesterday was our second trip to the cottage for more interior renovations. We removed all of the old linoleum and carpeting and spent most of the day on our hands and knees removing hundreds of nail...

04 may 12 1 person likes this

Guest cottage renovation

Déjà vu! This was nearly the same opening photo from our first cottage renovation 2 years ago. You may or may not know that our cottage also has a matching guest cottage on the property that used to ...

29 apr 12

Mjölk sandwich board

This week we had a bit of time on our hands so we started working on a custom sandwich board for the shop. We bought a couple of nice wide boards and began to burn them a la Terunobu Fujimori. The ne...

22 apr 12

Mini Mjölk

We are so happy to announce the birth of Elodie Mae Baker, born March 30th at 13:24, weighing 6.6 pounds (above, she is is one week old!). About 38 weeks…anticipation! Not sure what it is about...

06 apr 12 1 person likes this

New coffee table

I hope everyone’s week is going well. I’m sorry for our blog neglect recently, we are so close to having the baby and there are so many loose ends to tie up before her arrival. Something ...

27 mar 12 2 people like this

The Ultimate Bathroom by Nendo

Quite possibly the most beautiful collection of bathroom accessories we’ve ever seen. Of course it’s by our friends at Nendo. The collection is for Bisazza who have already collaborated w...

20 mar 12

Baby Shower

Ok, let’s get a little girly here for a second (indulge the 36 week pregnant gal). I wanted to share with you our baby shower, since our friend Jennifer put on such an amazing tea party last Su...

09 mar 12 2 people like this

Ando Masanobu Opening party

Now as promised, some photos of the opening night of Ando Masanobu’s first solo show in North America: “Kita Wou Omou Utsuwa”. Our black library was emptied out to show off the coll...

28 feb 12

Ando Masanobu opening

On Wednesday we drove to the airport with artist (and translator for the week) Takeya Daisuke to pick up Mr. Ando. The next day we emptied the first half of the store and carried in a huge 4″ t...

25 feb 12 1 person likes this

Mjölk interview on Monocle Radio program “Section D”

We’re pleased to share our interview with Monocle Radio that debuted on Valentines day! You can listen to the program by following this link We are episode 18 and our interview is about halfway...

16 feb 12

Masanobu Ando solo exhibition at Mjölk

Join us next Thursday for a solo exhibition of Japanese ceramicist Masanobu Ando “Kita wo omou utsuwa” A study of crockery and its relationship to everyday life in the north. Masanobu And...

15 feb 12

Plants in the shop

It’s starting to look like plant week on the blog. Not only did we get some plants for our home, we also went to Sheridan Nurseries to get some simple terracotta pots and some extra plants for ...

08 feb 12

Nesting Part 1: Bringing in some nature

Recently we found out that because of the delayed permits, our renovation is not going to be complete until the fall. As a result, we figured we better make ourselves feel more at home in our tempora...

05 feb 12

IDS12

We can’t believe it’s time for the Interior Design Show already. Time sure does fly! After a really great dinner at Bannock (ok, to be honest we were trying to go to The Keg because we ha...

28 jan 12

A few baby notes.

While in NYC we picked up a few cute baby things. I’d seen these Fort Standard building blocks online before, so when we saw them at Bird in Brooklyn we bought a set. It’s the first thing...

18 jan 12

Getaway to NYC

We decided to close between Christmas and New Years to take a rest before the baby arrives (apparently we won’t get a rest until…forever) so we decided to visit NYC, a trip we’ve be...

10 jan 12 2 people like this

Sori Yanagi

I have heard some very unfortunate news… Sori Yanagi passed away on Christmas Day, at the age of 96. While we were in Japan over the summer we were lucky enough to catch an exhibition of Sori Y...

26 dec 11 1 person likes this

Kami mug giveaway winner

The winner is #51, Leah! It sounds like you live in the Junction Leah, so stop on by to get your Kami mug! Also, please note that Mjölk will be closed December 25 – January 3rd for a much neede...

24 dec 11

Happy Birthday, Johnny!

Birthdays in December are difficult. Sharing your special day with the holidays can mean less presents and less attention, so I am always careful to give John the best on his special day. With the ba...

22 dec 11

2 year anniversary! & Giveaway (CLOSED)

We can’t believe it’s been two years already, can you? So much so that yesterday was technically our anniversary. Oh well! One of these years we’re going to have to have a big party...

16 dec 11

Recent Acquisition

I don’t think we’ve ever shown a tiny bit of our temporary apartment. Here’s a tiny peek while sharing an early Christmas present to ourselves. We first saw Carly Waito’s coll...

15 dec 11

Interview with OEN

We were honored to be interviewed by Mark Robinson from OEN. Check it out here

15 dec 11

New Japanese handcrafts at Mjölk

During our last trip to Japan in September, it was really important that we tracked down 3 artists that I’ve wanted to represent through our store. There were three main mediums we specifically...

12 dec 11

Man Cave

Yesterday I had a date with our basement. Our apartment walls are paper thin, and with the impending baby arrival I wanted to make a space in the basement that I would feel comfortable playing music ...

07 dec 11

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