Guest Room Makeover - Farmhouse Style - with Serena and Lily My Guest Room Makeover started simply enough. I wanted to create a space with a farmhouse feel for family to stay in when they visited. My house is a very old farm house and I like to keep the feel of my spaces along those lines. My family is growing and it is important to me to have a space for them when they come to my home. ...
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Farmhouse Style Dining Room Makeover
How I Took My Dining Room from Blah to WOW with my Dining Room Makeover! I love a good makeover, and this one is near the top of the list for me! I had a lot of fun using different painting techniques in this space. I not only used Milk paint to refinish the Dining Room Table and Hutch, but I used Latex Paint to transform the dated fireplace. Here is the before of the space, which we ...
Easy Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
Don't have a lot of time? Here is an easy Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe your family will love! These are one of my family's favourites and best of all they are Gluten Free. One of the things you likely don't know about me is that I have Celiacs Disease (I am allergic to grains) and finding a good baking recipe, that everyone loves, is hard to do! If you've tried gluten free, then you ...
My Easy Roman Blind Tutorial
One of the things I enjoy doing is creating a space that is warm and inviting. Adding texture through window treatments is an important aspect of this. Here is my easy Roman Blind Tutorial. This blind is in my kitchen and only took me a couple of hours to make. When I am searching for the right material, I don't leave any option unturned. I am always searching for ...
How We Summer – Home Tour
Simmer home tour. Welcome to my home, lets start at the front entrance... I've changed out the carpet in this space to a lighter and brighter one and I've added flowers and touches of colour throughout. I love pops of colour and these orange flower pots just add the perfect touch. Those flowers in the wicker bag, are actually in a vase, it is just placed into the bag. 😉 For ...
The Ramblings of a Designer….
Ramblings of a Designer - straight talk. While most people are working on their spring home tours, I'm sitting here looking at my home and thinking: what's next? It seems in my life I have often been thinking: "what's next?". But sometimes it's not so much about the decor, but about the life I've built within it. I didn't originally start this journey as a designer. I started my journey (way ...