It’s another beautiful day here in Toronto!  Finally we’ve got some sun, it’s warm out there and it definitely feels like summer is here!  I guess it’s official in a couple days!  While we’ve been all busy getting the outdoors ready for summer, let’s not forget about the inside our homes too!  Time to put away all the heavy and dark décor and lighten things up for summer days and nights!  You can update your living room, family room or kitchen and don’t forget your bedroom too! Go for that tropical beach getaway look, a comfy Muskoka cottage, or California coastal…whatever your summer heart desires really!  And while it would…

New week, new opportunities! Had a great weekend with the family which I can say I really needed.  Last week ended up being a bit of a gong show with our basement renovations.  The one thing I have learned after years of renovating is that you should always expect the unexpected. SH@# happens…and honestly don’t sweat the small stuff and stress.  It’ll all get done and be beautiful in the end! At the beginning of the week, I was so excited because our countertops were coming and were going to be installed!  As soon as that would be done my gorgeous backsplash and faucet would be installed and I would…

Happy Friday everyone!  What are your plans this weekend?  Now that we’re finally starting to get some warmer weather I’m feeling a bit inspired and thinking we might do some gardening this weekend!  I usually make some pretty Spring planters earlier on in the Spring but ther weather has been so wonky that my planters didn’t do so well or last for very long.  It was either too much rain or just way too cold. So this weekend were making our Spring Planters…round 2!  It’s actually pretty easy to DIY and get that custom and pretty Springy look you normally find at your local nursery and I’m going to show…

Hey everyone! It’s a rainy day here in Toronto and it’s so hard to get motivated or inspired when it’s so blah out there.  So I’m going to keep thinking about the sunnier days we just had and keep thinking that summer must be around the corner, it’s just hiding! Speaking of summer, I’ve been a bit obsessed lately with all things beachy and coastal.  So when my good friend asked me to help her design a new master bedroom retreat for their place, I jumped at the chance to help her out! It’s a bustling house with three busy kids and she and her husband were always looking for…

Hey there! And happy Friday!  Who else is ready for the weekend? Why does it always feel like the short weeks are the longest!!?  We’ve got another jam packed weekend ahead but hoping to get some stuff done around the house too!  Fun stuff though like furniture shopping and getting started on some DIY projects too! For those of you following our basement renovation, we are really getting there!  Laundry room cabinets arrived last week and they are almost fully installed.  Just the finishing touches like the sink, countertops and backsplash and we are done.  Ok those are big – let’s say two more weeks to go! In the meantime,…

Hey everyone!  And Happy Friday to you all too!  And did I mention Happy Friday before the long weekend!!  And it’s actually feeling warmer out there today and sunnier too!  It might even be a great long weekend!! What are your plans?  I know a lot of people use this long weekend, the kick off to summer, to start cleaning up the yard and refreshing their outside space for summer.  The long weekend is also the perfect time to focus on the front of your house!  It’s an excellent place to do a Spring refresh and raise your curb appeal!  The front of your house is what sets the tone…

Hey everyone!  I think it’s been a couple weeks since I posted about our basement renovation project!  Well happy to say that the washroom is really almost done – just some finishing touches and we’re there!  And the storage room is done too!  We got this great closet system from Closetmaid and some shelving and the hubby installed it all himself!  I just love when I give him projects to do…just wait and I’ll tell you soon about a pretty exciting and spectacular one he’s agreed to tackle! For the rest of the basement we’re in a bit of a holding pattern.  I’m still figuring out furniture and all the…

Hey everyone!  We have now finished five weeks of our basement renovation and I can say it feels like we are really in the home stretch!  And for real this time – woohoo!  All the tiling is now done in both the bathroom and the laundry room floor and all of the rooms have been primed and painted.  The bathroom fixtures are almost all in place and the new flooring for the family room section has been installed too! To add to the bathroom drama (it seems to always be the bathroom!), turns out the vanity we bought from Wayfair had a huge crack in the bottom of it.  Good…

Hey everyone!  We’ve already finished four weeks of our basement renos and now that all the structural work has been done we are really starting to see progress.  Just last week the basement looked like a disaster – cement and dust everywhere as we leveled out the floor.  Looking at it I thought we’d be in a mess for at least a couple more months!  But now that that part is over I almost feel like saying we’re in the home stretch but I know we still have a ways to go! Today they primed all the walls in the entire basement and they actually started tiling the new bathroom! …