Welcome to our minimalist home house tour. Pretty much all that you see is all that we own. We like to live simple. I would like to clarify, that being a minimalist doesn’t mean you are cheap or don’t like nice things. On the contrary, I appreciate beautiful things. I value them. I buy quality items but I don’t need a ton of things to find happiness. I am content with the few amazing things I do own. Also, I like to know that everything has a place. I like to have the things

Well well, I never thought this day would come. It’s been quite the journey with this exterior. We were really undecided on what to do and how to approach the whole project! First off we live in a very mature community and most of the homes around us are still occupied by their OG owners. We are talking 40-50 years here. Major changes ahead for this oldie So you can imagine that most homes still have a very…hmmm…OG feel to it. I will leave it at that. Our home is so unique in

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

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