Natural Elegance – Outdoor Beauty for Your Wedding Decor

Post by Corinne Kessel on April 7th, 2012 · No Comments

By Corinne Kessel 

Planning your wedding should be an enjoyable, exciting, and rewarding experience.  We can help showcase your distinctive style throughout all the elements of your special day.  The timeless beauty of nature never goes out of style and can compliment almost every venue.  From winter weddings that add pine boughs, fragrant pomanders, and fresh cranberries, to summer weddings that add rustic accents like pinecones, feathers, driftwood, birch branches, and shells, sophisticated nature-inspired designs are our specialty!

A Summer Love Affair - Floral centrepieces shown range from $45 – $150.  Décor accessories & linens additional.

Classic, graceful, and full of nature’s beauty – add warmth to your wedding with touches of peach, coral, and mint on branches or birch.  Embrace nature and share the joy of it with your guests!

Greenscape Design Willow Branch and Birch Centrepiece with Crystals and Peach Coral Green Flowers Close Up   Greenscape Design Willow Branch and Birch Centrepiece with Crystals and Peach Coral Green Flowers   Greenscape Design Rustic Centrepiece with Birch and Peach Coral Lime and Champagne Flowers   Greenscape Design Rustic Centrepiece with Birch and Peach Coral Lime and Champagne Flowers on a Tree Cookie   Greenscape Design Tall Willow Branch Centrepiece with Crystals and Peach Coral Champagne Flowers   Greenscape Design Birch Bark with White Orchid and Moss Centrepiece   Greenscape Design White Birch and Spring Floral Head Table Centrepiece with Birch Candleholders   Greenscape Design White Birch and Spring Floral Head Table Centrepiece   Greenscape Design White Birch and Spring Floral Head Table Setting with Birch Candleholders

Email us to book a free consultation today or to learn about more wedding decor ideas we can create for you.

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Event Camp Vancouver – A Bonfire of Brilliance

Post by Corinne Kessel on November 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment

By Corinne Kessel 

When I first entered the room for the first session of Event Camp Vancouver 2011, I knew I was entering a thought-changing landscape for learning, interaction, and innovative formats. With the chairs arranged in a giant circle, as if around a massive bonfire of ideas and energy, face-to-face engagement was set as the standard for the weekend. We talked, we sang, we danced, we “sexercised!”

Event Camp asked questions. Lots of them.

  • What is the purpose?
  • What is the objective?
  • What are you trying to achieve?
  • What do you want to learn in this moment?
  • What do you want to experience?
  • What way do you want to engage?
  • What level of technology are you able or willing to embrace?
  • What have you done that is sustainable today?
  • What can you do to be sustainable everyday?
  • What can we do to design better?
  • What can we control and what can we influence?
  • What are our resources?
  • What can we do to design event experiences that don’t yet exist?
  • What is your twitter handle?
  • What change can you make to motivate yourself and others?

There were no right answers, but rather an overwhelming wealth of contributions and ideas from people all over the world who were excited about possibility, change and collaboration.  It was a dynamic and transforming dialogue.

In addition to attending this industry-changing experience – Greenscape contributed sustainable décor options for the Room for Thought. This “white space” was a green space designed to encourage participants to have a place to reflect and rejuvenate. We focused on creating an interactive and highly sustainable space. Every item was sustainable through our manufacturing process or had been refurbished, reclaimed, or repurposed with all items returning to our rental inventory to be endlessly reused.

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For me, Event Camp created a legacy of new friendships, deeper connections, and bigger thoughts. I am inspired to be a better leader, a more creative designer, a more collaborative colleague. I will drive my company towards greater sustainability and higher levels of technological advances and innovation.  I want an app.  I want greener options.  I want to eliminate fear, fail, and fine from my vocabulary (I need to keep fake folks, until I change my tagline – Sometimes Fake Is Better!)  I want to learn more.  I want to be a champion for enthusiasm and change.  I want to help.

Tahira Endean was the loving force behind making Event Camp happen in Vancouver, yet Event Camp grew bigger than any one person or singular contribution. She was the spark behind this massive experience by saying, “Yes, lets” and then it was ignited by a passionate group of people that followed up with “Yes, and.”

The fire burns on…

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Green Mandate – Our Manufacturing Practices and Corporate Responsibility

Post by Corinne Kessel on July 28th, 2011 · No Comments

By Corinne Kessel, Principal

Eco-Friendly Decor Manufacturing

For more than 17 years, Greenscape Design & Décor has offered sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives for our rental and commercial sales clients.  While we seek environmentally responsible products and practices in our internal operations and raw material sources, we also engineer and manufacture our products to give our clients the peace of mind that their eco-footprint is reduced when selecting our décor designs and products.

Manufacturing

  • our products are easily repaired or redesigned so replacement is often avoided
  • superior construction and durable products means less replacement costs and reduced waste
  • custom designed trees are built in Canada with 60% natural and local materials
  • custom built wooden planters can be made with 100% local and natural wood products
  • LEED-credit planter options, manufactured with post-consumer recycled materials, are available for commercial sales clients
  • existing trees, plants, floral arrangements and existing décor pieces can be refurbished or reworked into a new custom design
  • steel structural components have a long life cycle and can be endlessly reused and recycled

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Corporate Responsibility

Greenscape Design Girls support Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation


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Green Mandate – Our Sustainable Products and Raw Materials

Post by Corinne Kessel on July 19th, 2011 · No Comments

By Corinne Kessel, Principal

Green Decorating is all the Rage!

Our customized décor, manufactured in Canada, provides the greatest level of design possibilities while providing piece of mind for achieving green event standards or sustainable interior design options for commercial or residential spaces.

Our Raw Products

  • constructed from salvaged, refurbished or reused materials
  • make use of solid wood, natural timbers, or reclaimed wood when possible to avoid toxins found in particle board or plywood
  • imported woods used for specialty designs are sourced from renewable sources such as bamboo, grapevine and palm thatching
  • VOC-free paints, environmentally safe adhesives and biodegradable cleaning products are used when possible
  • trees, plants and floral art primarily use domestically harvested natural wood or cane trunks from sustainably harvested forests with environmentally safe methods
  • natural branch products harvested from mature trees promote growth for the natural tree and in turn increases renewability

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Green Mandate – Memorable Decor Shouldn’t Cost the Earth!

Post by Corinne Kessel on July 5th, 2011 · 1 Comment

By Corinne Kessel, Principal

Our Internal Practices

We believe in sustainable décor options and socially responsible practices to help protect & nourish our planet.

Exciting and memorable decor shouldn’t cost the earth.

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Did you know artificial “plantscaping”…

  • is regarded as having a positive environmental impact through the reduction in water consumption & harmful pesticides required for both the end user and in nursery production & decorative flower farming?
  • reduces carbon footprints by minimizing transportation needs of regular service & replacement of live plants & florals?

Wherever possible, we seek products and services identified as environmentally preferable in our internal practices and our product manufacturing.

Our Internal Initiatives:

  • extensive recycling program including paper, cardboard, soft plastics, wood products, mixed containers, batteries, printer toners and non bio materials
  • electronic delivery methods for communications whenever possible
  • 75% of our team use public transportation for work, meetings and tasks
  • filtered water cooler station instead of bottled water
  • partnering with transportation companies who utilize bio-diesel fuels, electric, or hybrid vehicles in their fleet
  • recyclable and recycled packing materials
  • the majority of our rentals occur within the Lower Mainland, thus making use of local resources and reducing environmental  transportation impacts
  • open the shades and turn off electrical supplies when not in use: lighting, computer machinery, office electronics, warehouse equipment
  • we wear sweaters and keep moving, maintaining fuel and electricity use for heating at a bare minimum.

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Green is the New Black!

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