At Executive Furniture Rentals, we’re proud to offer excellent solutions for those looking for home furniture in Toronto.  Our method for home furniture success is simple.  We take the same commitments to detail, value, professionalism, and service that characterize our office furniture Toronto solutions and simply refocus them on a more intimate scale.  The result is timely, efficient service that is bound to leave you satisfied.

One of the many ways we like to be well-positioned to offer the premier home furniture in Toronto services around is to keep abreast of industry news and trends.  With the New Year still in very-recent memory, there are a host of year-end and year-beginning lists.  It is in this spirit that we share with you an article about furnishing trends in 2011.  Obviously, since 2011 is only four days old at the time of this writing, the post is more of a prognostication than proven fact.  Still, it’s worth browsing to see what Stacy Downs of The Kansas City Star has compiled.

Generally speaking, the trends focus on new tacks taken.  These include opting for a paler, more driftwood-like finish for hardwood floors over darker, like-new hues, as well as a move toward brighter hues like honeysuckle and gold.  (Honeysuckle, by the way, was named the 2011 color of the year by the Pantone Color Institute.  Talk about a trend!)  Others call for the resurgence of products that have fallen by the wayside such as sliding doors and carbon-filament light bulbs.

Two of the final trends, however, illustrate the importance of being true to your own unique decoration sense.  The first calls for repurposing old products in new ways, and the second suggests mixing and matching ideas to come up with your own perfect blend of new and old, upscale and rustic.  We heartily agree with that.

Though we at Executive Furniture Rentals are a home furniture in Toronto service, we can’t help but be tickled by this bit of news from south of the border.  None other than the famed Barcalounger, a brand of recliner immortalized in lore and legend, will be returning to the United States next month.

The Barcalounger has a storied history with its roots in Buffalo, New York, where it was originally built by the Barcolo Manufacturing Company.  Its pioneering products became an inspiration for furniture makers the world over (and, in a much more relatable and day-to-day-way, to impromptu nappers everywhere).  Leisure is built into the company fabric, as they were, legendarily, the first company to allow its employees sanctioned coffee breaks.  Though this tale might be somewhat apocryphal, it nevertheless illustrates the importance of relaxation, something that, in a Barcalounger, is not hard to achieve.

No word on whether or not the iconic recliner will make its way to Canada, but we’re an optimistic bunch here at Executive Furniture Rentals.  Regardless, the return of exquisite comfort, at least to denizens of Las Vegas is assured.

We found this information while perusing FurnitureToday.com.  Here’s the article about Barcalounger’s reintroduction.  We thought those of you who are interested in home furniture in Toronto might be interested in home furniture elsewhere.

We’re a premier solution for home furniture in Toronto, but we’re also a lot of other things too.  Whether you’re looking for the aforementioned home furniture in Toronto, office furniture, office systems and panels, special events solutions for the Toronto area, or custom corporate housing, we’ve got it all.  We even offer excellent support for home staging in Toronto, a rapidly burgeoning industry that can give you an edge in a competitive real estate sales market.  What’s more, we’re a proud member of the CORT Global Network, a group of the finest furniture rental solutions from across the world.  Wherever you’re going, we’ll be there.

This weekend is an event to remember for office furniture in Toronto!  On November 20-21 we at Executive Furniture Rentals are holding our renowned Executive Furniture Warehouse Annual Clearance Sale.  It’s located at 900 Caledonia Rd, and runs from 9 a.m. through 3 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. through 2 p.m. on Sunday.

The Toronto Sun ran a furniture rental article about our sale and titled it “Buy a Chair a Celebrity Sat In.”  It’s true!  Since our Annual Clearance Sale features pieces of furniture used on movie sets, in home staging, and on movie sets, there’s a chance (however slim) that a piece you buy has been sat in or otherwise used by a notable figure!  Now’s your chance to buy memorabilia.

Of course, another reason to buy furniture from our Annual Clearance Sale is to take advantage of excellent deals on barely-used furniture.  Call us boring, but we think that the most exciting part about the chairs  used in the G20 summit that we’re selling for $99 is, well, that we’re selling them for $99.  And that’s just indicative of the sort of deals you’ll be able to find there.  Trust us when we say it’s worth your while to stop by, especially if you’re looking for home or office furniture.

Good enough for state dignitaries, good enough for us: That’s the Executive Furniture Rentals motto!  Well, not really, but it’s certainly a sentiment we can get behind.

As the leader of office furniture in Toronto, we’re proud of our selection, much of which will be on display this weekend.  If you’re looking for something other than office furniture in Toronto, check out our other services, all of which are tailored to making relocation simpler and easier.  In addition to office furniture in Toronto, our suite of services include home furniture rental, custom corporate housing, home staging in Toronto, and special events furnishings.  We’re also proud members of CORT Furniture’s global network, which has your furniture rental needs covered from Andorra to Venezuela.

At Executive Furniture Rentals, we provide a host of excellently conceived, complementary services designed to make any relocation, whether for home or office, as simple as possible.  Our flagship solution is, of course, our extensive selection of office furniture in Toronto.  Our stock is varied and is geared toward any budget

When looking for office furniture in Toronto, consider Executive Furniture Rentals.

In addition to office furniture in Toronto, we also provide clearance furniture solutions, which can be a great choice for long-term relocations.  However, from a financial perspective, renting can just make sense sometimes, especially when the move is large, long-distance, and/or of predetermined length.

Though purchasing furniture permanently is generally accepted to be the more financially prudent solution, that isn’t always the case.  Consider this: Renting furniture for one year within a country’s borders can cost up to 47% less than moving furniture (using 6,000 pounds’ worth of furniture as the comparison).  An international move can be even more costly for people looking to buy furniture.  Costs in this regard can be reduced up to 67% if those movers were to simply rent.  Two-year costs for renting furniture in these two scenarios are still lower than for buying.

So there you have it: Rental furniture is clearly the way to go for short-term and medium-term moves.  It just makes sense.

In addition to our exemplary office furniture in Toronto solutions, we have several other services which are every bit as powerful.  These include home furniture, special event furnishings, home staging, and custom corporate housing.  We’ve brought the commitment to excellence and service that embodies our office furniture in Toronto concern to each of these.

As you can see, Executive Furniture Rentals has diversified beyond office furniture in Toronto.  We’re ready help make any Toronto-area relocation, home or office sale, or special event go more smoothly.

At Executive Furniture Rentals, we pride ourselves in providing an excellent range of Toronto furniture rental solutions.  Today, we’re going to outline two related but different definitions of the term “contemporary furniture.”

The phrase is commonly used.  It’s appended to the collections of a host of furniture stores in a way that telegraphs cutting-edge quality and unique styles.  This definition of contemporary furniture suggests that contemporary furniture is designer-driven, arty, and high-end.  It’s made for consumption by discerning folk with deep pockets.  In this sense, “contemporary” is an extension of the art term “modern,” which means it’s related to the hallmarks of modern art.

While this categorization of contemporary furniture certainly holds, there’s another, more commonplace definition in which the term refers to any furniture made that doesn’t appear to be part of a period style.  It’s furniture that looks, to our eyes, more or less “normal.”  In this sense, “contemporary” refers to the time in which the furniture was made, which is, more or less, now.  The furniture looks “normal” to us because it was made with the general public’s current (or “contemporary”) tastes and desires in mind.  This is why furniture that was contemporary 50 years ago is evocative of a different time and place to us today.

With our extensive selection of stylings for both home and office, Executive Furniture Rental has plenty of furniture that can fit either definition of “contemporary furniture.”  From impeccably designed, thoughtfully rendered pieces to everyday, utilitarian items, we have all your Toronto furniture rental needs.

Whether you’re looking for office furniture in Toronto, home furniture in Toronto, or a more specialized service like special events planning or home staging in Toronto, know that we at Executive Furniture Rentals are uniquely equipped to provide you with exactly what you’re looking for.  Contact us today to learn more about what we can do for you.

Most who are aware of the Executive Furniture Rentals brand know of us as a purveyor of office furniture in Toronto.  There’s a good reason for that: Office furniture, both as items to rent and as clearance sale material, is our bread and butter.  We do an excellent job supplying it, and that’s where we get a significant portion of our business.

However, we do more than just rent and sell office furniture.  We also provide home furniture solutions in both our

Though renting is our primary mode, we also, as previously mentioned, offer clearance furniture.  This is high quality furniture that has been employed in home staging or movie sets, and which is now on sale at discounted prices.  If you decide to buy clearance furniture through Executive Furniture Rentals, you can rest assured that you’ll have excellent products, purchased at fair prices, that will last you for years to come.

Periodically, we give tips about how to maintain furniture that you may have bought with us or that you have acquired from elsewhere.  Some of these furniture maintenance tips include how to clean wood, leather, or upholstered furniture.  These tips are great for everyday upkeep, such as when a guest spills something on your couch.

However, other times, accidents will occur that will cause more major damage the upholstery on a piece of furniture.  A tear in the fabric is one such symptom.  In particularly severe cases, the best route might be to reupholster furniture.  This might sound like a bit of work—and, indeed, it is—but when you’re dealing with a high quality piece of furniture, it might be worth the effort.  The link above points to an engaging article detailing how reupholstering high-quality furniture—furniture that is constructed well, not simply designed well—can make considerable “cents” in the long run.

Home staging is a rapidly growing field within the real estate industry. Formerly reserved for an extreme case that needed major sprucing up (what some real estate agents might refer to as a “project”), home staging is now a viable and accepted option for virtually any home or office on the market today.  There’s a good reason why, too: Home staging, and the people who do it well, can bring wonderful results, accentuating the positive features of a property on the market while simultaneously minimizing the impact of a space’s weaker points.

The question, however, is this: Who does do it well, and how can you find that out?  We found an excellent home staging article while browsing around the internet, reading up on industry news and publications.  It lists some questions that you might want to consider asking a prospective home stager when you first contact them.  We think that some of these are good to keep in mind.

Basically, hiring a home stager is like hiring any specialist to do work for you.  You’ll want to do  your homework, especially if their expertise falls outside what you can typically claim.  Asking questions, then, is a wonderfully simple way to determine what kind of service you can expect.  You can determine what sort of experience your stager has had by asking for references or a portfolio.  You can get a decent indicator of the quality of the home stager by asking how long properties they’ve staged usually take to sell.  Want to figure out what sort of style the stager will employ?  Simply ask!

Looking to sell a home or office in the Toronto area?  Contact us at Executive Furniture Rentals!  We’ll be glad to put our proven expertise in home staging to work to help you get an excellent price from your property in a reasonable time period.  And don’t  forget—we have a whole host of other excellent products and services available, including some of the best office furniture in Toronto!

With 30,000 square feet of showroom space to work with, we have quite a spectrum of options to satisfy any furniture customer’s needs.  From leather couches to coffee tables, from office panels and systems to bar stools, we’ve got you covered.  This post, we’re going to focus on the kitchen, and discuss some tips for picking out furniture ideal for its needs.  Executive Furniture Rentals is truly the premier destination for kitchen furniture in Toronto, and we’re going to help you get the most out of our selection.

One unique thing about furnishing a kitchen is that, unless you plan on shelling out for massive redecoration/renovation, the general “look” of your kitchen will already be determined.  This is due to the fact that your cabinets, counter tops, and appliances are already installed, and since they will (hopefully) share some sort of visual uniformity, your complementary kitchen options will be limited.  This has its benefits and drawbacks.  On the one hand, you won’t have as many paths to consider when picking furnishings out, which should theoretically make deciding on a look easier.  On the other, however, you’ll have less leeway to truly get as creative as you’d like because of those very limitations.

So it goes.  Once you’ve decided what sort of feel you’ll want, it’s time to start stocking the kitchen with the appropriate furnishings.  In this instance, you’ll want to start off with the biggest items first before you move to the smaller ones.  This is done in an attempt to maintain that unified aesthetic mentioned in the previous paragraph.  For example, you’ll want to figure out which kitchen buffets and tables you’re wanting to  buy before you move on to the kitchen chairs.  Of course, you can avoid this whole mix-and-match quandary by buying furniture by the room, which will ensure harmony between all pieces.

At Executive Furniture Rentals, we offer a whole lot more than just kitchen furniture.  We also offer office furniture, home staging solutions, and more.  Trust us to fulfill all your furniture needs in the Toronto area.

If you’ve read this blog with any regularity, you’ll know that we’re big proponents of supporting home staging in Toronto and the surrounding area.  There’s a simple reason for that:
We’ve seen it work time and again.

Home staging refers to the process of temporarily and strategically furnishing a space when showing it for resale.  The goal is to accentuate the positive features of a space, as well as to illustrate the possibilities of the layout of a particular home or office.  Home staging, when done well, can transform any space from an interchangeable, empty room into an inviting, welcoming area.  What’s more, it doesn’t interfere with any moving schedule you might have.  You can pack up whatever furniture and decor you’re planning on taking without worrying about showing an empty place to prospective buyers if you’re planning on staging your property.

Home staging might sound like a very straightforward process in which someone simply rents furniture and sticks it in an empty space.  It might come as a surprise, then, to know that home staging is actually a rather delicate and complex process.  Balances need to be struck.  Too little furniture, and a space looks awkwardly empty.  Too much, and it looks cluttered.  The best home stagers put a significant amount of effort into their work, almost as though they were decorating their own home, and their results reflect that commitment.  We are pleased to provide you with recommendations for a number of home stagers in the Toronto area upon request.

We bring the same dedication to excellent service to this new and burgeoning field as we do with our many other endeavors, which include renting home and office furniture in Toronto.  After all, as the premier destination for furniture for hire in this fine city, we have a reputation to hold up.  Contact us today to learn more about our wide range of services.

By now, we all know that home staging has grown into a legitimate multi-million dollar industry, servicing many home sellers with talented interior solutions to maximize real estate value. But did you know the decorative talents of home stagers are being successfully used in other sectors such as temporary relocation and corporate housing?

As a furniture rental company, I am finding more opportunities to provide turn-key housing solutions to temporarily relocated employees by contracting or referring home stagers to plan and prepare corporate houses and suites. Companies who rent furniture as a housing option are beginning to demand the suite (or house) be completely ready for the employee to move in: furniture planned; kitchen; bath; bedrooms and linen all organized; and the house has become a home.

I truly enjoy providing a custom corporate residence option. The economic benefits for companies are immeasurable from a cost benefit analysis to instant employee productivity. When asked, in my mind there is no better qualified person to provide a decorative, budget conscious solution than the professional home stager.