Until now, I’ve been immersed in the process of selling our home.  It’s not fun.  It’s cleaning and organizing and schedule disruptions but it does lead to the fun part…house BUYING!  I absolutely love looking at houses.  I love seeing how other people live and I adore getting decorating ideas.  The best places for decorating [...]

We have a  small kitchen and there’s not much about it that functions well.  Since I got my new stand mixer, I’ve been baking all our bread and using pantry staples like flour, oats, sugar and such quite often.  I had all those items in a lower corner cabinet and they were really awkward to [...]

When I first started seeing Chevron Stripes pop up in home decor magazines and websites I was a little less than impressed. Charlie Brown anyone?   I take back my indifference, my yawns, my snickers.  Chevron stripes are turning up in some very sophisticated ways.  Gentle paint treatments, beautiful textiles and custom art pieces are [...]

My neighbours were throwing this console table away!  Can you believe it??!  I hoisted it up on my shoulder and carried it down the street to my place where it will be safe until I figure out what I want to do with it.  I’m thinking I’ll paint it (the top is in bad shape) [...]

I know, I know this post has been a long time coming.  Remember WAY back when I posted my living room makeover after pics, I mentioned there was still a corner that wasn’t shown?  Well now here it is!  I had to wait to do all the component posts first because they all lived in [...]

I wrote before about how we madeover our living room to fit a desk area and now that the room is split in two sections, it’s not exactly small, but it’s not large enough for big square end tables to work well either.  I wanted a small, round side table to fit beside one of [...]

We have babies.  That means we have baby gates.  And boy do they take abuse!  They’re climbed on, yanked around, pushed, tugged – you name it.  We had one at the top of the stairs to our front landing that finally bit the dust.  It just came apart and once it did, I didn’t feel [...]

I really really fell in love with these cute birdcages I found.  They are designed for outdoor decor ( I think this one is supposed to have a plant put inside it) but I thought it would be super cute hanging in my living room.  And if I was going to have it in my [...]

This is the crib mobile we bought when Little H was a baby.  It’s nothing super special.  It was inexpensive and gender neutral but we have video of her cooing and smiling at the stuffed animals going by.  Fast forward to baby number two, and we used it on his crib as well.  I have [...]

It’s all coming together fairly well and I have to say, I’m pretty pleased with having an adult space that’s (mostly) toy free! There are still a few things that need doing and a few things to shop for but for the most part, everything in the space was what we already owned.  There is [...]