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Dragons' Den Experience Keeps on Giving

Posted Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
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It's been four months since we travelled from Vancouver to Toronto to tape a pitch for Dragons' Den. We went into the experience hoping and expecting one kind of upside, but we're realizing a different payoff that is far more valuable. Because we don't know if our segment will actually make it onto a show, and if it […]
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TGAM Small Business #Takeoff Series Profiles KANDY Outdoor Flooring

Posted Monday, July 7th, 2014
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It’s fun for us to have been profiled in the Globe and Mail’s Small Business section. We're a young and growing brand working hard at expanding home experiences with new outdoor flooring deck tiles for condo balconies and ground level patios. When the online article appeared Friday July 4th, our twitter feeds starting buzzing. It’s […]
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Designer/TV Host Transforms Urban Balcony Into Outdoor Oasis

Posted Tuesday, July 1st, 2014
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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 […]
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5 Tips for Maintaining Beautiful Outdoor Wood Flooring

Posted Thursday, June 19th, 2014
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Thinking about maintenance treatments for your outdoor flooring can be daunting. Especially if your reference point is past experience with softwood like cedar, or even northern species of hardwoods like pine. But it doesn’t have to be, especially if you’ve got a durable exotic hardwood like ipe or cumaru, and you read and apply the […]
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From Drab to Fab!

Posted Thursday, June 19th, 2014
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Sometimes the stars just align.  Our meeting with Vancouver blogger Marc Smith is but one example!  Marc's 30-patios-in-30-days series was one that we thought was calling our name! We didn't think his series would be complete without  KANDY Outdoor Flooring, so helping to transform Marc's own condo balcony was a no-brainer. Enjoy Marc's blog! FROM DRAB […]
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KANDY's Guest Editorial in Condo Elite Modern Living Magazine

Posted Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
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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 […]
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Inside Out! Outdoor Flooring Grows Your Space

Posted Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
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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 […]
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Expand your Outdoor Season with Outdoor Flooring

Posted Saturday, May 10th, 2014
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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 […]
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Slaying the Dragons

Posted Friday, April 18th, 2014
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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 […]
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Condo Living Sparks Chic Flooring Trend

Posted Monday, April 14th, 2014
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This past week a couple of major newspaper outlets featured stories on KANDY Outdoor Flooring and our "chic flooring trend'. Check out The Ottawa Citizen story online. Versions of the same story ran this past week in the Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal and Vancouver Province. And tell us what you think!
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