We dragged home an Ikea Hemnes 6-drawer chest awhile ago, specifically choosing the 100% wood option lest we decide to paint it. (Why would I have Ikea furniture in this apartment if I didn’t paint it? That would mean I’d use free time to read or engage in intellectually stimulating hobbies. And who would want to [...]
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Sad but true – in the past year we killed every single houseplant we owned*. And we’re self-described plant people. Doesn’t make sense, does it? It took a long time to accept that the amount of light coming through the windows wasn’t the amount I wanted it to be. More than any other feature, the [...]
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Eyjafjallajökull, I need you. I’m looking skyward and, despite best wishes, YVR’s inbound air traffic continues to arrive. Our house guests land in mere hours. I can’t wait to see them – but I rather hoped to treat them to our first home. Surely an extra 24 hours’ work would make all the difference – bridging [...]
Foreword. Tonight, we get to sleep in our new bedroom. It’s done. Kinda sorta. This morning, I’m going to show you pictures – since you asked so rabidly nicely. They’re not staged. Are you kidding!? I want praise for habitable. To ensure our budget sees us through the entire project – we’ve assigned classes, stages, to the project. [...]
When we moved in, we thought the bedroom paint colour was a white/beige/derivative of nothingness. When we primed, we realized the walls’ probable shade: cadaver. Once yellow got involved (make that chic yellow), the original colour of the walls was obvious: Rotting dead manatee flesh. With rollers and paint brush cleaned and drying on the bathroom counter, I can’t be [...]
One month and ten days; a catalogue of insanity. Want to flip an apartment while living in it and working from it? Haha, of course you don’t. But you do want to observe, one eyebrow raised, from a comfortable distance. Bring your pitying looks and settle in for Anthropology 100. No kitchen table. It’s holding the [...]
I made a big fuss about why we had to remove our popcorn ceilings. I hated them; they had to go. Well, they’re gone. Can you be proud of a ceiling? Oh yes, you can. I’ve never subscribed to a project so big – not for a long time. Our blog addictions, home show favourites and [...]
We’re in business, baby. It’s time to turn grey bedroom walls and a biologically hazardous carpet into a bright, fresh, clean and happy yellow bedroom. And not a minute too soon! Would you want to wake up to this? As delightfully showcased in the Vimeo smash hit “Wall-E: the sequel”, we’ve now got primed and [...]
Realizing we needed proper Ugly Baby before shots before any boxes arrived, our lovely friend & stellar photographer, Andrew, beat the moving truck to our place & snapped some commemorative, wide-angle ugliness. He’s archived every inch of the “before” & I’m ever so grateful. So why not meet my ugly bedroom? The bedroom’s ugly “feature” wall: With [...]
