March 2012
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Rule #6: All Good Things with Time
Cabinetry by Venegas & Company
I’m writing about my “House Rules” this week - a few things I want to keep in mind when it comes to creating our future home.
One thing I’m really trying to think through before we start our house are the layers involved in achieving the look I want. We won’t be able to afford the exact finishes or details that I’d love to have all at once....
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February 2012
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Rule #5: Mix High and Low (but don't the let the...
A great bedroom full of DIY that doesn’t LOOK like it’s full of DIY. By Mandy Gubler
I’m writing about my “House Rules” this week - a few things I want to keep in mind when it comes to creating our future home.
Doing It Yourself has been a huge trend over the last decade, as TV makeover shows and home blogs have flooded our consciousness and provided ideas. No doubt the...
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Men and their coffee: an essay (a helpful guide to...
art by Suzy Krause
Suzy writes a blog that I thoroughly enjoy. And she had a guest blogger, Carmen, whom I also love. And Carmen wrote a delightful post on men and their coffee. You should read it. (And from my experience: my husband Sean - a black coffee man, Carmen totally nailed it.)
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Rule #4: Don't forget the other senses
One of my favourite images from Country Living
I’m writing about my “House Rules” this week - a few things I want to keep in mind when it comes to creating our future home.
Some of my fondest memories of the house I grew up in are not visual at all. My mom was very good at creating a visually attractive home, but there was so much more than that. It was the cool smell of fresh air in the...
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The Happy Ending to the Tale of a Beast (AKA: My...
I’ll resume with the rest of my “House Rules” next week (you can check out all of my inspiration photos here.) It was interesting, though, watching how the pictures I posted for this reblogged on Tumblr. Though there are a lot of factors to whether a picture I blog gets lots of traffic (if a blogger with many followers reblogs a picture, or if I also pin a picture to Pinterest,...
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Rule #3: Play with texture
Design by Caroline Allison
I’m writing about my “House Rules” this week - a few things I want to keep in mind when it comes to creating our future home.
I love pattern, and I love colour. But over and over I find myself drawn to interiors that aren’t quite as bold with these. Rather, the interiors use pattern’s more sophisticated and subtle cousin: texture. Texture takes time...
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House Rule #2: Create places of retreat
Design by Halina Catherine of HCD International, Photograph by Michael Graydon for House & Home
I’m writing about my “House Rules” this week - a few things I want to keep in mind when it comes to creating our future home.
Rule #2 is to create places of retreat. I’m an introvert, and sometimes I need a place to curl up and escape it all. As a kid I used to even go sit in my tiny...
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House Rule #1: You can never have too much...
From A Country Farmhouse
I’m writing about my “House Rules” this week - a few things I want to keep in mind when it comes to creating our future home.
This is most definitely rule #1 to me. Here in Saskatchewan - the true north strong and free - sunlight is gold. And after living in either apartments (that only have windows on one side) or basement suites for almost ten...
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