Ok. This blog is all about being open and honest and being able to share with you our journey towards a more simple and minimalist life. When I say our journey…many of you associate this with our recent big move and downsizing. However, there is a list of reasons as to why we chose a more simple lifestyle. The benefits for us living this lifestyle is weaved into earlier posts throughout this blog. Bottom line, we want to enjoy life, do what we love, get more time back with ou

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

Ok. There are a million blogs out there. I have a serious obsession with searching high and low for interior design blogs. Through these blogs, I find inspiration for our projects. I am not an interior designer. I never took any interior decorating courses. But somehow I now find myself married to a man whose own obsession with design and decorating is much worse than mine. So much so that he changed his career to pursue his passion. My friends aren’t far off. Two of my close

THIS IS IT. This is the week that everything changes. There is still A LOT of small details that make this house unique and special to us that hasn’t been completed yet BUT this is the weekend we move in. I can’t believe it…we totally did it. Two months ago Ben and I took possession of our new home. The house had been somewhat poorly updated over the years since the 70’s, but for the most part, it still needed a lot of love. As we tore down walls and ripped out cabinets we un

I cannot believe today marks 7 weeks. This week was suppose to be but certainly was not the calm before the storm! We had the painters in spraying all the doors, trim and casings; and rolling the first couple of coats of paint. We ended the week with our finisher building us some custom reach-in closets, the tilers got started by installing the in-floor heating around the house and my favorite part of all ….OUR FRONT DOOR WENT IN!!!! NOW…This week coming up it gets very real!