If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my Instagram or like me on Facebook . Thanks for visiting!31 years ago, my parents designed and built their home after moving to Nova Scotia from our farm in BC 3 years prior. For those 3 years, while they worked on the home I essentially […]
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Our Outdoor Kitchen
Our backyard was one of those secret garden fall inlove instantly spaces in our home. But, with living on a hill, we have found out that the drainage for runnoff in rain storms and during winters melting snow was AWFUL. So, we started planning out how to add proper drainage to the space. In order […]
How We DIYed Faux beams in our kitchen Alcove
If youve been folloing our kitchen 2021 refresh, you probably know by now that this has been planned up for over 3 years. 3 years of living in the space and trying to figure out what would bring us joy without costing the $15K-$20K it would have to gut the kitchen and truly make it […]
Adding a Spice Niche To Your Kitchen
If you’ve been following our kitchen renovation journey over on Instagram, you might know by now that we were trying to expose our original chimney in the kitchen while gaining some floor space. Once we opened up the walls, we realized that when they added the oil furnace, they also reworked the chimney and it […]
Kitchen Walls: The Path to Vertical Shiplap
As of next week, we will have owned this home for 3 Years….WHAT?!?!? One of the things that sold us on this house, was all of the character and charm in the kitchen. We even loved the original wallpaper. But, after living in the house for just over a month we realized how in need […]
Tips on How To Tile Your Backsplash
Holy moly! We are at the finish line for this one portion of the kitchen finally. As you guys know from when we first started this process back in March, we have been dying to have floating shelves in our kitchen. It’s actually the first thing I wanted to do when we first purchased this […]
