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Christmas is only a few sleeps away – can you believe it?! I sure can’t, and time has been moving even quicker than normal since we’ve been working on Mom’s Lake House. The kitchen in their beautiful lake home is almost complete (you can see the mood board for that here), and I can’t wait…
It’s December and it’s time to deck the halls! Come take a tour of Our DIY House decorated for Christmas 2017, plus get some ideas on how you can decorate your own home for Christmas. I’m also excited to be hosting the Canadian Bloggers Home Tour again this season with Shannon of AKA Design. Every…
If you’ve been following along on my blog & YouTube channel, you’ll know that we’ve been making over my parents’ master bedroom in their new lake house over the course of 6 weeks as part of the One Room Challenge. This week, I finally get to share with you the finished rustic traditional lake house master bedroom! Thanks to The…
My daughter Little A’s 6th birthday is on November 20th, and we’re going to be celebrating it unicorn style this year! She loves all things unicorn, so we both agreed this would be a fabulous theme for her party. When I purchased a new Christmas tree this year for the Holiday season, I decided that…
When designing kids’ bedrooms, it helps save time and money to create a space that can grow with them rather than something that has to be changed down the road. When I had the exciting opportunity to makeover my friend’s son’s room recently, we tried to design something that could stay with him well into…
As much as I appreciate a bright white room, I love shots of bold colour so much more! With the help of BEHR PREMIUM PLUS ULTRA® Interior Paint & Primer in One and the 2018 BEHR Colour Trends Palette, I got to infuse a little boy’s bedroom with the most delicious shots of colour, turning…
Fall feels like such a short season here in Alberta, Canada – it’s almost like we go right from summer to winter! – but I want to enjoy it to its fullest. On a warm stretch last week, I made our new back patio nice and cozy and ready for some Fall marshmallow roasting by…
It’s One Room Challenge Time! If you haven’t heard of it, it’s where decor bloggers like myself make over one room over the course of 6 weeks as part of Calling It Home’s One Room Challenge. This time, I’m doing my biggest makeover ever – my parents’ master bedroom in their gorgeous almost-done lake house!…
It’s Fall! That means it’s time for me to welcome you into our home for a latte and to share some seasonal decorating ideas with you. Won’t you come on a Fall home tour with me? After you’ve had a peek, make sure to visit all of the Canadian bloggers that are also sharing their…
Hooray for kids’ bedrooms! They’re one of my favourite spaces to decorate because they can be so fun and whimsical. I’ve had the pleasure of decorating quite a few little girl’s rooms, but sadly the opportunity to decorate a boy’s room has never crossed my path… Â until now! I’m so excited to have the honour…
While some people like to decorate with neutral colours for Fall, I like to embrace colour in my decor in Autumn! Here’s a look at how I decorated our front porch for the season with cheerful colours and lots of texture. Make sure to also visit my blogging friends’ porch decor posts that are linked…
This month, I had the pleasure of partnering with Brookfield Residential again to complete a fun & challenging DIY & decor project in one of their gorgeous new show homes – the Alma in the Orchards at Ellerslie. With its open floor plan, this duplex would make a great home fit for a person who…
It’s the last long weekend of summer, and it’s so bittersweet! I’m happy the kids are going back to school next week, but I’m sad too. We’ve had such a fun summer, and what’s made it the most memorable summer ever has definitely been Our DIY Camper. I’m SO glad that we bought what looked…
Have you ever been little hesitant about making something, but then after you decided to give it a shot and see what happens, you were happily surprised with the results? That’s how I felt about this DIY outdoor sofa! I haven’t ever built outdoor furniture, but when I stumbled across these easy outdoor couch building…
Summer’s not over yet, friends, and I hope you’re able to enjoy all of the rest of these warm summer nights we have before Fall hits! We’ve definitely felt fortunate to finally have finished our back patio this year, and we’ve been loving entertaining there and also just relaxing together after a busy day. I…
If you’re more of a “glamper” than a camper like I am, you might find these glamping hacks useful. The best part about these? You don’t have to have a huge budget to try these tips!
As a DIY and home decor blogger, I’m usually showing you the styled and cleaned looks in our home. Today, let me show you how our bedroom REALLY looked this week and how I cleaned it up and styled it for summer!
Summer is the time when I feel like stripping all the rooms down in our home to their bare essentials, and then redecorating in a very light and minimal way. In Fall & Winter, I add lots of layers in our decor with throw pillows, blankets and tons of texture, but in summer it’s the…
Accessories in a room are like accessories with an outfit – they can add so much personality and they can completely change a look! I love being able to change the feel of a room by swapping out accessories like art, pillows and drapes to give my home different feelings in different seasons, and to…
Happy Canada Day to you! It’s an extra special one this year as it’s Canada’s 150th birthday. We decorated for the occasion more than ever, so in honour of our nation’s big b-day, here is our patriotic porch.
Summer is HERE, folks! I am thrilled, and so are my kids. They can’t wait for more beach days, more camping and no school. One thing we know for sure is that we’re going to be spending a lot of time relaxing on our new back patio. It’s a great location – it’s just outside…
I love giving gift cards to teachers at the end of the year, and to friends throughout the year. I think they’re a great way to let the recipient choose what they want, and they’re also a good way to give an “experience” gift rather than a “thing” gift. The only thing I don’t like…
While I enjoy decorating rooms in our own home, I love to makeover my friends’ rooms even more! It’s such a privilege to be able to work with my friends and family to DIY and decorate their spaces. It’s also super fun – can you say paint party?! You might remember that I was helping my…
Patio season is short here in Alberta, so we really need to take advantage of every sunshiny minute! Even though we have a lot of other projects going on this Spring (like our little camper renovation and my parents’ house build), we wanted to finally make a patio behind our home. We have a walk-out…
Brought to you by Canon PIXMA and TheCO. It’s no secret that I love flowers, and I especially love using them in home decor. There’s something so beautiful and fresh about bringing the outdoors in! My favourite floral home decor accents are the ones I can make myself. Pillows and curtains are some of my…
With Canada’s 150th birthday approaching, we thought: “What better summer than this one to go camping and explore more of our national parks!?” The only problem was that we couldn’t justify spending a ton of cash on a travel trailer, and I really don’t care for tenting. The solution? We stalked buy-and-sell sites for months…
It’s week 2 of Outdoor Extravaganza, and me and my blogging friends are sharing some outdoor decorating and entertaining ideas with you today! As soon as it finally warmed up here, I couldn’t wait to put up my romantic crochet edged cotton hammock in our back woods again. Let me show you how I washed…
We did it!! With the help of The Brick and some tips from my handy Hubby, I successfully made over our sitting room into an eclectic, boho farmhouse dining room space. I’m thrilled with how it turned out, and I think all of the work was definitely worthwhile. Why don’t you come take a tour?
To be totally honest, I feel like a have one billion projects on the go that need to be finished BUT I couldn’t let a One Room Challenge go by without my participation! I’m a sucker for punishment (and projects). If you haven’t heard of the “ORC”, it’s a challenge hosted by Calling it Home where…
Why is Spring decor my favourite? Because I can go overboard with some of the decorative items I love most – flowers, pastels and nature-inspired things. Hooray! Today I’m so excited to be joining some of my Canadian blogging friends as we share our Spring home tours with you for the Canadian Bloggers Home Tour. Grab…
Basements are an often overlooked area that can add a lot of value to your home if you can renovate or update them. Take my friend Cheryl’s basement, for example. My friend recently purchased a beautiful older home for her family of 5, and she and her husband are spending time to give the entire thing…
This is the time of year where we start longing for Spring to come, especially here in Alberta, Canada where the snow is still up to our knees. Our kids do love the snow and all of the fun that comes with it (and I mostly enjoy its beauty), but we’re definitely ready for milder…
Little B and I are so excited to share with you her finished bedroom makeover! As a self professed lover of “Elsa and rainbows”, Little B requested that I incorporate both of those things in her bedroom re-design. I think we were able to include the things that Little B loves while keeping her new…
Since we’ve built our home – and since I’ve grown in my knowledge of home design and decor – we’ve made a lot of different home decor choices and acquired some new furniture and accessories. I’ve been really happy with most of the decisions we’ve made with our home decor, though their have been some “misses”….
With Valentine’s Day coming up, there’s no better time than now to add a little extra romance to your bedroom with these simple ideas! Here are some easy, romantic bedroom decor ideas and how I’ve incorporated them in our own modern French country master bedroom.
I’m a sucker for romance. Give me ALL of the roses, candles, twinkling lights, poetry, and soft music, please! I almost like saving money as much as I like romance, so this year I gave myself the challenge of creating a dreamy, Valentine’s Day tablescape using only items I had on hand. Surprisingly, I think it…
When we built our home, my hubby thought it would be a good idea to design it with 4 bedrooms just so that we’d have an extra. We had two daughters at the time. I reluctantly agreed that having one extra room wouldn’t be a bad thing, and we built our home with four bedrooms….
Happy 2017! I hope you all had a wonderful and relaxing Christmas break. We are technically still on holidays as the kids are home from school for one more week, but both the Hubby and I are ever-so-slowly getting back into our work this week. For the last few years I’ve chosen a word that…
I used to think it was going a little overboard to decorate your bedroom for Christmas, but now that we have a master bedroom that I’m madly in love with, I don’t think decorating it for the Holidays sounds silly at all! In fact, I thought it sounded so appealing that I grabbed my tabletop…