Who knew it could take almost a year to furnish an apartment? I definitely underestimated the amount of time that has gone into making our home look the way I had imagined. Slowly, the individual rooms are coming together – some more than others. While the home office / guest room resembles more of a…
Generally speaking, hotel beds are pure bliss. Am I right? Especially the ones at the Shangri-La in Vancouver (but more on that in the next post). However, after traveling for almost three weeks nonstop, this weekend at home (in our own bed) has been amongst the most anticipated highlights on my agenda. Right after my…
The natural thing to do when you’ve lived in the same apartment for 6 years? Redecorate! Even though we are slowly but surely outgrowing our current home, we love the place to death. And since the apartment search over the past 2 years was not quite a successful as we had hoped (the reason being…
I love all things interior. If I could, I would make it a hobby to re-decorate our apartment bi-annually. Unfortunately, that is not happening. Mostly because Mike would probably kill me, as would my bank account. While I would love to provide you with new interior updates on a more regular basis, the problem is…
One of my favorite times of the year is definitely late Spring. When it is starting to feel like Summer, the days are getting longer and peonies are starting to pop up at the flower shops. It is also the time of the year that I get most excited about our home. With warmer days,…
Being self-employed for almost 3 years now (yay!) has been one of the greatest lessons in life to me personally. I feel like I have grown and learned so much. It has taught me better time management, to be more organized (at least I try), to take responsibility and to have discipline. And it has…
After 10 weeks of patience, the newest addition to our home finally arrived yesterday and I couldn’t be happier! While I always loved our glass coffee table, I was slowly starting to feel a bit bored with all the light colors in our living room. White kitchen, white dining table, ghost chairs, a white rug,…