Monday, April 4, 2011

Colin and Justin's Home Heist...the not so stylish addiction

Over the past little while, I've had the pleasure of getting to know quite a bit of  Scottish designers Colin and Justin. I've got to tell it's like getting a decoder ring in a box of cereal and actually having it work. It's been an odd night, mind you I should be doing homework, gotta love having audiobooks. A buddy of mine happend to make a threat about heisting Colin and Justin's Toronto condo and redecorating it.
My friend Joe his middle name is Justin and mine just so happens to be Colin. So we are Colin and Justin and we've just heisted Colin and Justin's Condo, wow thats confusing.


We can't travel anywhere without our mobile style laboratory a beat up Ford pick-up from the 90s with a hula dancer on the dash and red bullballs on the hitch. Our awesome truck opens up to a hunting lodge with bucks mounted on the walls and chandeliers made from antlers. We magically change into matching blue over-alls and plaid shirts. Justin has a pack of beef jerky in his front pocket and Colin's got a bit of a mullet starting. We don't let Colin and Justin helpt with the style transformation. We've packed them up and sent them out on a wilderness retreat with the clothes on their back, 2 canteens, 2 swiss knives, a lighter, tent and rifle . We are all about transforming the home owners after all.


Safe in the knowledge that Colin and Justin won't be gobbled up by bears we jump into our truck and make our plans.


First the bedroom, ah the love nest where the two ducklings cuddle and watch prime time TV. It has to be romantic and that'll be achieved with lovely mustard yellow walls, Red snap on tool chests for dressers, fake pine wood end tables with alcohol decanter flower holders on top. With amazing green and orange bedding and a poster of Dog's playing poker. To add to the romantic atmosphere we've had a quilt made of Justin's corsages. The whole room is tied in with cow print leather curtains. There is a lovely string of yellow and red christmas lighting around the room.


Now the bathroom it should be relaxing and tranquil and I Colin want to bring through there Scottish nature in full force.  We've custom ordered a deep soaker tub with two beer can holders and a matching toilet in tartan. Not even we like to shag in the bathroom so we've thrown faux wood tiles down. Did we mention the double sinks are red tartan as well?  Nobody likes there 2 ply toilet paper on display so there is a gun safe to keep it nice and tucked away. We've left toy water pistols and a bucket full of rubber ducks for bubble bath duck hunting. We do have pot lights!




Now the Media room is a man's best friend the emphasis must be on the tv. The boys are die hard Canadian Hockey fans and I've decided to have the builders install white tile and the painters to paint an ice rink pattern on it. It was Justin's fabulous idea to have the entertainment unit resemble lockers and the TV to be fitted into a Hockey net. Keeping with the yellow baseboards of a hockey rink. Justin has brought in a yellow leather sectional. I built the penalty box and threw in a hard bench. Fighting over the remote warrants a two minuet minor, loves pushed off chairs results in a 5 minuet major. There is a blow up ref in the corner. The perfect light fixture a score board over head.


The boys will love it.
.........Just in case we'll start running now.


Mind you this was all in good fun. We haven't sent the boys off into the great canadian wilderness...that would be mean.

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