I have had so many readers reach out asking when I would do a post about our playroom. Our playroom has really become more of a rumpus room, as my boys are a little older and not so little anymore, although I like to wish they were. This weekend I want to kick off the Renovation Series with Playroom/Rumpus room Design. I want to take you into our space and share how the layout and design came to be. The next couple of renovation series posts will focus on organization, equipm

The thought of a dining sunroom always appealed to me. I remember on a cold wintery day dining at a local restaurant called Le Villa, watching the snow fall all around us in their dining sunroom, it was warm and charming. The windows that surrounded the room let in the twinkles of the holiday lights just enough to watch the snowflakes float down. Sitting there by the warm roaring indoor fire made dining feel so magical. When we walked into this house I was very excited about

Ben and I are both self-employed so it was really important for us to have a functional, large home office space that could house both of us and all our work. When we were searching for our new home we had a sense of what we wanted that space to look like. We wanted a room that would let in a lot of natural light, that had windows and that would be a unique and motivating space to work in. Our last home did not have a functional workspace and often the kids were doing their h

Setbacks….I know I know….we should have expected it. But seriously, I couldn’t have imagined we would run into this much. Some of it was out of our hands and some of it is totally on us. The weather hasn’t exactly been on our side for this part of the renovation. It’s amazing how quick we turned the inside around…but the exterior is a different story and is taking much longer than we had hoped for. Typically Calgary gets a number a Chinooks throughout the winter months. Allow

I cannot believe we are approaching 17 weeks since we first took possession of our new home. We hammered this job out in 2 months but the thoughts and ideas about this home had been fluttering around my mind for much longer than that. For a couple of years, I had envisioned a home that was in some ways transitional yet still modern and simple. About 2 years back, Ben and I had been out to a see a potential home just outside of Cochrane, Alberta. The house was in some ways Sca