If you weren’t a kid on summer vacation in 1999, you missed some good stuff. After a day’s exploit and adventure, or another viewing of American Pie, we’d eventually head inside to take up arms: an ongoing painting project of our entire house. ‘Paid’ in pizza and rides to the pool, I don’t think it [...]
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” [...]
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Nearly Christmas! Let’s gather round our common hearth and dabble in eternal hope + optimism. Mm – that’s not quite our style, is it? While many cities offer holiday house tours – Vancouver’s option was $50 a head. I couldn’t decide quite which Max Mara coat and Hermes scarf, so I left the society ladies [...]
I mentioned before that I drew up our bathroom design plan based on photos I liked. (That’s pretty standard, right?) Well – the aspects I was sad to leave behind – were as follows. Feast your eyes and pretend this is a safe space for pretty things. Windows? Many of my favourite photos were of [...]
Our apartment: before and after. A year ago we bought Vancouver’s ugliest apartment – in hopes of one day having a backyard and a big dog (in a city where crack houses run $800k and up). Today we’re celebrating our ugly baby’s first birthday (read more on why we call it that) – join in, [...]
Meet my ugly bathroom? Everyone knows you save the best for last. So, all this while, I’ve been holding out – waiting to get caught. I planned to confess instantly – but 4 months later I’m still holding tight my ugliest secret of all. You guys are observant as anything, so I can’t quite figure [...]
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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 [...]
So…you want to meet my ugly baby? Oh man. By which I mean, oh sweet José yes. She’s a keeper. Agent Awesome took us round the building then stayed a few moments longer with us in the apartment to share in our excitement. He guessed that, right after he left, we’d look at each other [...]
