It’s been almost a week now since we started the move from our beloved Ravine House over to our new home, Rosie by the River, and I feel like so much has happened in the last 7 days it’s hard to make sense of it all. I’ve probably been through every emotion possible as we’ve
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Thoughts on Last Year’s Design Trends (& Some Predictions for 2019)
With each January calendar change, I always celebrate with a post on the year’s design trends. This time though, I wanted to do something a little bit different. I wanted to take a look back at my top 2018 decor trends and see where they stood now…and also, where I see them going in 2019.
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My favourite moments of 2018
Typically, at the end of the year, I do a full review that, believe it or not, takes a LONG time to curate and write up (see 2017 here and 2016 here as examples!). But when I took a look back through 2018, I realized that with less blog posts, I needed to update the
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Kitchen Reno 101: Choosing the Right Appliances
As you can well imagine, tackling a kitchen renovation is no small feat. It takes a lot of time, energy, money and organization. But the end results are most definitely worth the sweat and, sometimes, tears. Our own kitchen has become the best gathering place and has brought us infinite amounts of joy already. I
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The Best Tips for Designing a Small Kitchen
One of my favourite rooms to design for my clients is the kitchen. I normally struggle a lot when it comes to designing for myself (I love too many things!!), but our kitchen renovation actually came to me really easily! There was a clear vision from the beginning and I honestly enjoyed the whole process
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Planning Our Entryway Makeover
After a big main floor renovation that included our kitchen (you might have seen the big one room challenge reveal here), Ryan and I are now in the finishing stages of fixing up the Ravine House. It feels like it’s been a long time coming – almost three years in fact – and yet, it
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How to DIY Your Own Floating Vanity
It’s been about a year and half since I did the spring one room challenge and revitalized our main floor bathroom…and yet, I still get asked about the floating vanity we built. Which is great!! I love that people still connect with it and want to know how we designed it. And so, I had
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The Best Green Paints to Decorate With Now
Some of my most popular posts I’ve written to date have to do with paint colours. My white paint post still draws the most traffic consistently to the site and the follow up to that – my black paint instalment – comes in close second. And so, it is time for another! It’s no secret