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Cozy Christmas Nights Home Tour
Our Christmas trees at night home tour full of cozy twinkling lights and warm and welcoming candlelight. Can you believe that it’s only five days until Christmas!? Even after preparing and decorating during November and enjoying the twinkling Christmas trees at night for the past several weeks, it still feels like the season is going…
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Colorful Christmas Decor in our Foyer & Home Office
Christmas decor that is colorful and cheery, from bright and crisp classic red, black and white to light and airy pastel blue and pink. Hello friends! It has been a BIG week around here. I’ve shared our Christmas living room, dining room and primary bedroom, kitchen, and now today I’m sharing our colorful foyer and home…
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Cheerful & Simple Christmas Kitchen Decor Ideas
Cheerful and simple Christmas decorating ideas for the kitchen. Do you decorate your kitchen for Christmas? I love to add some fun Christmas touches each year to our kitchen, as it really is the centre of our home over the holidays. My youngest son and I are already planning our baking and excited to try…
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Our New Build Three-Tone Modern Farmhouse Style Kitchen
This three-tone modern farmhouse style kitchen in a new build home packs a ton of storage and function into a small footprint. For the last couple of weeks I’ve been sharing all kinds of details about our home cozied up for Fall, from our living room to our dining room, our front porch, and our…
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Decorating Our New Build: Modern Coastal Farmhouse Decor Great Room Tour
Starting from scratch decorating a new build is a big job, and even though we aren’t completely finished today I’m sharing our modern coastal farmhouse decor style great room tour with a sneak peak glimpse at our kitchen and dining room. Hello friends! It’s the Seasonal Simplicity Home Tour week this week and even though…
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Full Before and After Home Renovation Tour of Our Forest House
Have you ever tackled a large home renovation project? Then you know what a big job it can be! Today I’m sharing the full before and after home renovation tour of our forest house. It’s a smidge over two years since we moved out of our lake house and into what I called our “forest…
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Simple Light & Bright Summer Decorating Ideas
Today I’m sharing my simple light and bright summer decorating ideas and our simple summer home tour. I can hardly believe that it is summer home tour time once again! It’s been a fairly cool and rainy June so far. I just hope that we didn’t use up all our summer weather in March and…
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Modern Boho Farmhouse Spring Decorating Home Tour
Today I’m sharing our spring home tour as part of the Seasonal Simplicity Spring Series; our modern boho farmhouse style spring decorating and home tour. Wow. What a crazy couple of weeks! When I sent my weekly email last Friday, I shared how we had just cancelled our spring break trip to Mexico and were…
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Simple Christmas Decorating throughout the House
Today I’m sharing our simple Christmas decor ideas for holiday decorating throughout the house. Plus my focus on being thankful and sharing my gratitude for all that I have as I approach this holiday season. It’s the last day of the Seasonal Simplicity Christmas Home Tour Series, and I’m joining my friends who are…
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Christmas in the Kitchen
Today I’m sharing our newly renovated kitchen, beverage centre, and dining nook all decorated for the holidays; Christmas decorating ideas in the kitchen. It’s here! Home Tour Week is upon us. I can hardly believe that it is the first week of December already… and I haven’t bought more than a couple of gifts yet….
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Fall Home Tour: 5 Simple Ways to Create a Cozy Fall Home
Today I’m sharing some simple updates and easy tips for creating a cozy fall home with limited time and a limited budget. It’s here! Home tour week! All week long, there will be all kinds of gorgeous fall inspiration and decor tips and ideas just in time for the onset of Autumn this coming weekend….
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Eclectic Bohemian Farmhouse Style Spring Living Room Tour
Today I’m really excited to be sharing our eclectic bohemian farmhouse style spring living room tour as part of the Seasonal Simplicity Spring Home Tour Series. Woot woot! It’s spring home tour week! I always love home tour weeks, and spring is definitely one of my sll time favourites. After the winter I’m always so…
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Our Christmas Home Tour Through the Years
I love looking back at our Christmas home tours throughout the years. Have a look at some of my favourite looks! Today’s post is definitely bittersweet. As we closed on the sale of our house last Friday, I had a few melancholy days remembering all the years of sweet, joyful memories we have made there…
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Blue & Green Fall Decor Home Tour
Today I’m sharing our blue and green fall decor home tour as part of the Seasonal Simplicity Fall Home Tour series, with homes being shared all week long by 36 talented bloggers. It’s days away now, friends. Days. Fall-slash-Autumn is nearly on our doorsteps. Truthfully, it already feels like fall around here. We’ve had insane…
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Fall Entry Hall Refresh
Today I’m sharing our entry hall or foyer and long hallway decorated for fall as part of the Canadian Bloggers Home Tour series as well and recently refreshed with Benjamin Moore Titanium. Spring isn’t the only season that can be full of refreshing changes in your home. Fall is a perfect time to breathe a…
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Lakefront Summer Patio and Fire Pit Makeover Reveal (Before & After!)
Today I’m sharing our lakefront lower patio reveal and summer fire pit area, both of which have undergone a huge exterior makeover project, as part of the Seasonal Simplicity Summer Series. Oh, you guys! This post is a fun one today! My favourite kind of post; a before and after. If you’ve been following along for…
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Before & After Investment Property Makeover Tour
All the before and after pictures of our investment property. Well, it’s finally here! I’ve waited a few years to share this satisfying “before” and “after” tour of our first little investment property. When we first finished the renovations on this adorable home, I shared some pictures of it empty as we were in the…
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Our Full Spring Home Tour
I have put together a full tour of our home filled with spring decor! Hello, friends! Based on our calendar it is officially spring. By the weather? I’m not so sure! We arrived back to Vancouver two days ago from our sunny spring break holiday to reports of snow in our hometown. SNOW. On the…
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Simple Cozy Fall Master Bedroom
I will show you how to make your master bedroom extra cozy with simple tips! Things just got real around here. It’s definitely autumn. The lake has risen a couple of feet up the shore in the last couple of days from All. The. Rain. Thankfully we’ve had a nice mix of sunny days as…
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Fall Dining Room & Kitchen Tour
I’m excited to share with you my dining room and kitchen all decorated for fall! I’m really excited this week to be joining up with a group of my favourite Canadian bloggers to share part of our fall home tours! Thanks to Christina from The DIY Mommy and Shannon from AKA Design for hosting. Check…
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Seasonal Simplicity Fall Living Room Tour
I am sharing my fall living room styling for the seasonal simplicity tour. Hello, friends! It’s a big day around here. Or should I say, a big week? It’s fall home tour time! I had hoped to share three different tours with you this week, but once my husband had his accident I realized…
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Beachy Blue & Green Summer Living Room Tour
Today I’m joining up with some super talented blogging friends to share our beachy blue & green summer living room tour as part of the Simply Summer Home Tour hosted by my talented friend Nina from Nina Hendrick Design Co. All week long some of my favourite bloggers are sharing a part of their summer…
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Our New Cozy Outdoor Living Room Tour! {Deck Reveal Part One}
I brought the indoors outside with my super cozy outdoor living room! Good morning, friends! I’m really excited today to have so much progress to share with you! Remember a couple of months ago, when I shared all of our before pictures of our deck and yard? I talked about our plans for the outdoor…
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“Seasonal Simplicity” Summer Kitchen Tour
Good morning, friends! I’m super excited to be here today sharing the second part of my summer home tour. Yesterday I shared our summer front porch and a sneak peak at our summer foyer. Today I’m inviting you inside and we’re going to move through the foyer and right on into my favourite room, the…
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Spring Home Tour: Our Spring Entry Hall & Dining Room
Good morning! Welcome to part two of our Spring Home Tour! I always love home tour days. Especially spring tours. Because it means that it’s spring! The days are getting longer. The snow is melting away. The sun is starting to peak out again. The grass is greening up. And buds are starting to turn…
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Our Fall Dining Room Tour
I can’t believe that it is October already. October to me means it’s really fall. Like, we are most definitely completely and fully submersed in Autumn. There’s very little chance of enjoying any randomly hot-summer-like-days for the next few months. The leaves are all turning. And we might even have to start raking soon. Eek….
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Bright & Airy Lake House Fall Home Tour {Part 1}
I don’t always embrace the onset of Fall with open arms. In fact… I generally put off decorating for Fall until the last possible minute; desperately clinging onto every last moment of summer. Maybe it’s because I know that the fall-winter-early spring often feels long and grey and long and grey and long and grey where…
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Lake House Summer Home Tour: Waterside Home Tours
There is just something about being near water. It seems to have some sort of universal draw for people. So many of our dream homes and vacation homes and vacation destinations all center around a body of water. Whether it’s an ocean, lake, river, or stream; sources of water seem to have the power to…
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Gorgeous White, Loved & Lived-in Family Home Tour {The Restless Arrow}
Good morning, friends! I hope that everyone had a lovely Easter weekend with their families. We had a bit of a non-traditional Easter this year since we are on Spring Break holidays {if you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen some of the pictures so far}. Despite it being non-traditional, it has been…
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Light, Bright, & Airy Living Room Tour {Designing Vibes}
Here is a collection of light, bright and airy living rooms that you will love! Hello everyone! I’m so excited that it is Spring Break in our neck o’the woods and I am taking a little bit of extra time with my family over the next couple of weeks. I will still be popping in…
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Early Spring Home Tour {& $400 Giveaway!}
I hope you enjoy all the details of my early spring home tour! Good morning! It is spring home tour day! Home tours are always my favourite – mainly because I usually link up with an awesome group of bloggers who are also sharing their tours and I look forward to stalking their spaces. And…
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Christmas Nights Lights Tour
Hello and welcome back, friends! Today you are in for a fun treat. Well, that is, if you consider stalking other people’s home all beautifully lit up and decorated for Christmas to be a treat. I know that house stalking is one of my favourite hobbies, so I pretty much hit the like-a-kid-finding-10000-candy-cane-jackpot of excitement…
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Fall Home Tour Part Two!
Do you love seasonal decor? Or prefer to stick with a pretty solid look all year round? I definitely like to change things up a little for each season… but over the past few years I have enjoyed making me seasons last longer and longer. Truth be told, I don’t know if I will decorate…
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Welcome to my Fall Home Tour!
Today I’m sharing my fall home tour with some beautiful inspiration for the coming season. I love Fall Home Tour day! Actually, I love spring/summer/Christmas home tour day as well. I just love home tours… stalking people’s living spaces is one of my top 5 favourite things to do. And the best part of prepping…
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Summer Home Tour {Summer Living & Dining Room} & a Giveaway!
I am super excited to show off my summer home tour, lots of inspiration! This is always such an exciting day for me. Summer Home Tour day. Partly because by the time I actually get around to posting this tour each year (I can hardly believe this is my third year of summer home tours!!),…
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Spring Home Tour
My spring home tour is filled with fresh greenery and pops of colour! Woot woot! It is Spring Home Tour day! And, guys. I am. SO. Excited. You know how it feels when a decor plan finally comes together? When that last little piece fits into the puzzle? Well, I feel like that has finally happened with…
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Our Christmas Living Room {Christmas Home Tour Day 1}
Hello! Welcome! I am so excited about today! It is Christmas Home Tour day! Who doesn’t love a good house walk-through?! I know, I know, it would be much more fun if I would actually open up my drawers and closets and show you how we “really” live… or even if I lifted up the couch cushions…
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Halloween Mini House Tour {& 14 more Spook-tacular Spaces!!}
Come see my scary Halloween mini house tour, and be prepared to be scared! Spook-tacular. I think I just like saying that word. Halloween décor can be pretty Spook-tacular. See, there I go saying it again. Speaking of saying things, I will say that Halloween is one holiday that my boys love decorating for. They…
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Fall Home Tour {including the stuff that’s ripped apart}
Come see all my fall decor with this home tour! It’s official. The first week of Fall is upon us. We finished off the summer with a beautiful warm sunny weekend and then the rains began within the next day. Right on schedule. But at least it put me in the mood for a little cozy Fall…
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Lake Cottage Late-Summer Beachy Decor House Tour
I hope you enjoy my lake cottage decorated in a beachy theme. Good morning! If you follow me on Facebook you may already have heard of the Canadian Blogger’s Home Tour Series that is going on this week with a few talented Canadian Home Décor Bloggers sharing their house tours each day. I was super excited…
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Lake Cottage Style Summer House Tour 2014 {and awesome Giveaway!}
Woot woot!! It is summer house tour time again! If you are coming by for the first time, welcome!! I am so glad you are here. I love summer decorating. We are blessed enough to live on a beautiful freshwater lake and our décor definitely reflects that. So come on in and take the tour!! I’ve got…
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A Week of Inspiring Summer House Tours!!
I love house snooping. House tours are my fave. Don’t get me wrong. Amazing DIY projects and crafts etc…they all float my boat. But there is nothing like skulking around other people’s houses via the safety of the interwebs and checking out all their amazing design ideas. Ahhhh….. so much fun. And today we are kicking off a week…
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My Favourite Room over at Savvy Southern Style {and Friday’s Fab Five}
I have some super exciting news – today I am sharing my favourite room over Savvy Southern Style!! I was so beyond thrilled and honoured when Kim asked me to share my favourite space as part of her Favorite Rooms Series – I would love for you to hop over and visit me there today!…
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Spring Home Tour Today!! {Spring Parade of Homes}
Good morning! Today I am excited to sharing our Spring Home Tour as part of the Spring Parade of Homes. Myself and 13 other bloggers are all sharing our home tours throughout the week. I love Spring. I think I may have told you that a few times lately. It is my favourite season. Even with…
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Deck the Halls: Our Full Christmas Home Tour
We are finally almost ready for Christmas around here… the tree is up, the décor has made it’s way throughout the house, and most of the gifts are bought. I am thrilled to be participating today in Like a Saturday’s Christmas Tour of Homes…if you have hopped over from Rachel’s at Like a Saturday, then welcome! Today I am going to give you a little tour of our whole home, all ready for Christmas.
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Our Christmas-ified Living and Dining Room {Christmas Party Tour of Homes!!}
I am so excited today to be participating in the Christmas Party Tour of Homes – and sharing our Christmas-y Living and Dining Room with you!!
We haven’t got our tree up yet because we plan to take our boys to cut one down at a local tree farm this weekend, but the rest of our living area has already been transformed in honour of this most precious of holidays…
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Halloween House Tour
Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha….today’s Halloween house tour is full of creepy things…scary things… gross things…and lots of black and white. My boys had so much fun helping decorate for Halloween. I guess creepy, scary, and gross are all in the eye of the beholder. I have only started really decorating for Halloween in the last two years… I…
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The “I’m So Ready for Summer Home Tour”: A Few Updates and Some Things to Come
Welcome to our home! Have you been following along with the Shabby Creek Cottage Summer Tour of Homes this week? I have been inspired by all of these beautiful spaces and while our house is nowhere near that level, it did make me realize that our ‘housie’ tour was getting pretty outdated. A lot has changed…
