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So many excellent suggestions, thank you. We'll have to do some more searching around.

To answer some of the questions about furniture shops here in Edmonton. We found the Saarinen table at a store called Populuxe Retro just off of 124th Street. I discovered it with a friend when we went to Colonel Mustard's Sandwich shop (which is right across the street). Populuxe features a lot of mid-centry modern finds scooped up from the basements of old grannies or from estate sales. The owner's name is Tony and he is very good at telling you the history of all of items and their level of authenticity (or the story behind the knock-off). It's worth checking out for sure, I'm never sure what I might come across there.

As far as other stores are concerned, we're kind of limited. We bought our couches at Urban Barn (several locations around the city). They have a lot of selection as far as sizes and fabric selection. Our couch was manufactured by a company called VanGogh based out of Vancouver. Honestly, I didn't find too many stores that I liked in Edmonton. If you don't have anything against Calgary (I'm from BC and haven't bought into the whole city rivalry) it might be worth making a trip there and checking out the stores that are on 117th.

The list continues... there are a couple really modern stores (or stores that think they are modern), one called F2 Furnishings in South Edmonton Common and another that is in the same complex as Lee Valley Hardware. If you have a lot of money to spend you can go to Inspired Home Interiors (11807-105Ave). It has absolutely gorgeous furniture that I could only lust after. It's worth going just to look at. While you are there pick up a copy of Avenue magazine, they also list some sources in there.

As far as our curtains are concerned. Simple solution, Ikea. We have four separate panels hanging from Ikea's tension wire that we attached to the wall using some material we had leftover from our kitchen reno (don't mount directly on the drywall over an expanse of this size... the weight of the curtains will pull the anchor out from the wall). We usually only close the curtains at night (they're closed in this shot because I didn't want to showcase the boxes I haven't unpacked yet).

For those of you that are interested, I'll be posting more photos of the whole space on my photostream. More to come here.