How To Save Energy & Electricity 4 ways to save energy and money around your home Using less energy in and around the home isn’t just good for your wallet – it’s great for the environment too. Just follow these tips from Bunnings.Arrive by car: From the Lakeshore : Take the Bathurst exit from Lake Shore Blvd W., Go North on Bathurst to Dupont Street, approximately 4Km. Turn left on Dupont. Destination will be on the left. Arrive by transit: From Bathurst Station : Take the #7 BUS Northbound to Dupont and Bathurst. Walk West 5 minutes on the South side of Dupont to the store. Toronto, Ontario, M6G 1Y6 Ph : 416 537-3138Fax : 416-537-3139 Tues - Friday: 8:00am - 4:30pm Saturday: 12:00pm - 4:30pmAutomata Opens at The Old Clare Hotel1/1/1/The opening of The Old Clare Hotel and its resident restaurants has been a slow, exciting reveal. We’ve seen previews on Instagram and Facebook, peeked inside the bar and rooftop, all the while waiting patiently.

Finally, it’s time: Automata opens on Wednesday. “This wasn’t a quick turnaround restaurant. We had time on our side, to do things properly,” says chef Clayton Wells. Looking after the interior and working closely with Wells was Matt Machine, an architect who also specialises in motorbikes and steel sculpture and designed aspects of Lennox Hastie’s Firedoor. “At first glance, there is a real industrial look to it – concrete floor, dark steel,” says Wells. But it’s balanced by beautiful, lighter pieces. There are pendant lights everywhere – when the lights are on, it looks incredible. It transforms the space.” The name (pronounced “or-tom-eter”) comes from a phrase at the heart of the restaurant, “automation before electronics.” “My business partner, Loh Lik Peng, found this chandelier and thought it would look great in a restaurant. That’s where it started. We basically built the restaurant around the chandelier,” Wells laughs. “[The phrase] is about the design, the aesthetic coming first.”

The chandelier in question (by London designers The Rag and Bone Man) looks almost robotic – a character out of Star Wars – referencing old engines and airplane parts. Spending three years at Momofuku Seiōbo has, of course, molded Wells’ style but don’t expect to find many similarities. “I come from a fine-dining background and I still love cooking that sort of food. chandelier jupilleBut I didn’t want a restaurant where you have a long night in a quiet room,” says Wells.chandelier becquet There will be a five-course set menu, starting with snacks, then four savoury dishes and one sweet dessert. chandelier sarregueminesThe menu will be updated weekly, with Wells’ current favourite dish being a steamed bass groper with cured roe emulsion and seaweed.

The chef’s dishes often come structured in layers – a tulip of witlof reveals tender partridge with burnt apple and capers. There’s often a surprising flavour pairing, such as pumpkin seed, tangelo and sea buckthorn (a type of shrub) together on one plate. As soon as you taste it, you wonder why it hasn’t been done before. The wine list is curated by sommelier Tim Watkins, who was last seen at Ester and Monopole. There’s a mix of international and local wines, with some natural varieties from around the world and a small, eclectic list of beers. There’ll also be a range of aperitifs, curated by Watkins and restaurant manager Abby Meinke (most recently of Moon Park). “There will be quite a few vermouths, some of them local. It’s becoming pretty popular,” says Wells. “I want it to be fun, energetic, a little bit loud and rowdy,” says the chef. Let’s not let him down. Automata will open Wednesday September 16. Reservations can be made through the website.

Kensington Street Social at the Old Clare Hotel is currently hiring front and back-of-house staff. See the positions advertised on Scout. 5 Kensington Street, Chippendale CASTLEFIELD AVE. REDUCED TO SINGLE LANE DURING ROAD WORK CITY WATERMAiN / SEWER REPLACEMENT (THROUGH DEC. 2016) THE AFFECTED AREA IS ON CASTLEFIELD AVE. EAST OF OUR BUILDING TOWARD DUFFERIN. ALTERNATE ROUTE TO AVOID TRAFFIC CONGESTION: TO AVOID POSSIBLE DELAYS,  ENTER FROM THE WEST VIA KEELE ST. AND TURN EAST ONTO BEECHBOROUGH.  CONTINUE TO THE TOP OF THE HILL WHERE BEECHBOROUGH CHANGES INTO CASTLEFIELD AVENUE. OUR FACILITY WILL BE DIRECTLY ACCESSIBLE ON THE RIGHT (SOUTH SIDE). WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MAY CAUSE.Our friends at Retrouvius, London’s high-profile reclamation experts and designers, recently clued us into the work of curtain crafter Lucy Bathurst and her company Nest Design. Originally an interior designer herself, Bathurst became a curtain maker to indulge her magpie-like obsessions with textiles.

“The curtains and blinds that we make are all about showing off the textiles to their best ability,” she says. “And if that means doing as little as possible to a beautiful vintage linen sheet, then so be it.” “I have stitched for a Dame and hung for a Beatle, making everything from vintage patchwork curtains for a gypsy caravan to 42 pairs of silk curtains for an Indian palace,” she says. “The process is always the same — finding a beautiful textile, imagining what it might want to become and then seeing it through to the last stitch still seems to me a form of magic.” Above: Bathurst creates a modernist patchwork curtain with vintage textiles to hang within a twenty foot, double height warehouse space in Shoreditch. “In keeping with the building, we kept the design simple and geometric, and worked with a restricted colour palette of tonal copper,” Bathurst says. “We used hand dyed linen with circles of Indian Khadi and an added splash of rich dark velvet.”

Above: At Spring restaurant in Somerset House, Bathurst layers linen voile to create an ethereal translucency. Above: In a kitchen that required a simple and relaxed window treatment, Bathurst emphasized the natural qualities of vintage hand woven linen by letting it hang softly into its own folds and exposing the selvedge. Above: “This project illustrates the joys of working with antique textiles,” Bathurst says. “Maria Speake from Retrouvius sourced this knock-out beautiful embroidered panel and we repaired it and backed it onto red wool. We were very sad to see it leave the workroom.” Above: Inspired by Art Deco bookbindings, this door curtain is made from undyed wool—hard- wearing and insulating—and vintage velvet. Above: Curtain crafter Lucy Bathurst from Nest Design sitting by one of her translucent creations made by overlaying panels of lace. More curtain tips: 5 Favorites: Belgian Linen Curtains DIY: 10 Patchwork Curtains Made From Vintage Linens Domestic Dispatches: 5 Ways to Cover 50 Windows on a Budget Christine is also the writer of new website Fabulous Fabsters, celebrating women who are FAB (Fifty and Beyond) and sharing their stories.