Article content For more than three decades, Toronto-based designer Karl Lohnes has solved countless interior decorating challenges through the pages of Canada’s own Style at Home magazine. Now, the veteran stylist will make his Ask Us column a live, in-person experience at the upcoming Edmonton Fall Home Show. “The Alberta home shows are among my favourite, and I encourage people to bring me their decorating questions.
I’ll be there for three or four hours following my Main Stage presentation for Ask Us Live,” says Lohnes who was one of the founders of Style at Home launched in Toronto in the mid-1990s. An author, designer and artist in his own right, the highly personable Lohnes makes regular appearances on Toronto and Montreal media outlets sharing his decorating knowledge and makeover secrets. Although his post-secondary education was in marketing, his passion for interior design led him to a Saturday job at a friend’s home decor store in downtown Toronto.
That retail experience connected him with the city’s elite stylists and home fashion editors who would drop into the store, sometimes to just borrow the odd glamourous thing. This weekend gig was where he unleashed his inner design diva, catching the attention of an editor who was looking to start a new Canadian home design magazine. “They said I seemed to be on the ball,” he says.
“I believe that if you love to do anything, whether it’s cooking, knitting or even fitness, you can find a job in it. Th.