outdoor living and design

RONA National Design and Decor Media expert

Published by

Posted on January 1, 2018

Let there be light! Hot lighting trends for spring and summer by Interior Designer Ulya Jensen

With Spring & Summer finally upon us, we all want to get the most out of our outdoor living space. Everyone wants to know what is hot when it comes to lighting.

Read more here

CTV- Interior Designer Ulya Jensen stops by CTV Morning Live to show off some post Canada Day themed ideas to decorate

CTV- Interior Designer Ulya Jensen visited CTV Morning Live with ideas to turn your backyard into a new “living space.”

National Post – RONA: Home improvement chain enters design world

“A designer comes up with a trend in Tokyo or Stockholm, as the cycle begins, and you wonder, what am I looking at?,” Ms. Jensen says. “This is a grassroots way of looking at the trends.”

Rona, she says, is big on made-in-Canada wares to satisfy what she says is growing demand from Canadian customers for local product. Rona buyers hunt the globe for inspiration and come back to Canada to see which products can be sourced or made locally.

“I was in New York this summer and saw these amazing black matte faucets for the bathroom,” Ms. Jensen says. “I came back and I saw a similar look in the Rona lookbook and I thought, they’re onto something. And they’ve made it affordable.”

Read more here