I’ve admitted this much to Paolo: I’ve been pinning like a hooker. That is, fifty times daily with little discretion. Bedroom could use a little attention. Couch could look a lot less sandy-beigey-greeney. Staging and five-star polish? I’m trying to care. We’ll need cushions. Have never used a sewing machine before, but how hard can it be? [...]
After Eights? I’ll eat the whole box. After eight on a Sunday night? A demoralizing time to look up bathroom photography tips. I dread the photo part of blogging – it looks great in real life, and yet I’m never satisfied with my photos. Darren Rowse, help! I spent 6 hours preparing the bathroom “after” [...]
Encompassed as just 1 thing on our chore list: one very clean apartment. I said clean enough for the Queen but, in light of recent royal world tour announcements, she can forget it. What nerve to send Camilla in her stead. Horse-Face can mop the place herself. Doing a non-stop blitz could take all day, [...]
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To keep the universe balanced, if yesterday was very pretty – today must be very ugly. Steel your stomach, it’s Silverfish Tuesday. Update – Ugly Baby Battle: Silverfish vs Sanity. Last year – I came to know and loathe silverfish. It was a hot topic – these guys will survive the Rapture and worse. I [...]
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Last year, we gingerly exhumed the world’s most disgusting drawers and scrubbed them back to life. It was grotty. Easily amongst the top 3 least attractive tasks of this entire project. Ever been frightened by a drawer? Meet My Ugly, filthy, foul & rancid kitchen drawer – does the literature suggest the last time it [...]
Awhile back, I saw a Holmes on Homes episode where good old Damon busted something open and found, um, mouse poo. The team went into hazmat mode – masks, breathing apparatus, the whole bit. I like Damon a lot, and his standards of hygiene only added to that Canadian loveliness. But why the fuss? A [...]
6 reasons to add some plants. Happy Earth Day. In Vancouver we’re busy eating chocolate effigies of David Suzuki, making sacrifices to our worm bins and hopping on our soap-boxes: let’s talk about plants. Source: Living Office by Ian Drummond at the Chelsea Flower Show So. Littering your desk right now: mouse, stapler, phone, other phone, pens, [...]
When Paolo and I tried to count the years of neglect, we couldn’t. Had it been three years or six since Bekvam was last fed? Shrugs all around. This was the little kitchen cart that time forgot. Bought in his bachelor heyday, Ikea’s sturdy Bekvam cart weathered all sorts of manly butchery: moose, polar bear, [...]
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My first year as a gardener, I played the bumbling fool interfering with nature. Last year, season two, it was a nice reason just to be outside – a welcome break from house hunting. New year, new challenge. In 2011, Paolo and I dig for victory. Food and flipping? It’s no tenuous correlation. Not the [...]
