It only took almost a year, but I’m finally writing a review on our Bertazzoni gas stove purchase. I guess it’s probably good that we’ve been able to use our Bertazzoni gas range for about… Read More »Bertazzoni Gas Range Review
We knew the day was coming, our 1970 something refrigerator was getting louder and louder, to the point where I found myself turning up the volume on the TV or waking up in the middle… Read More »Fisher and Paykel Refrigerator Review
It’s been a while since I’ve shared an update of our kitchen in our loft. When we moved in here about 7 years ago, we renovated it and kept the design pretty simple because it is… Read More »Loft Kitchen Updates with Breville Barista
It’s been about 5 years since we renovated our loft apartment, specifically the kitchen renovation. I wanted to look back on the process and share with you the things I’d do differently if I could… Read More »Our Kitchen Renovation 5 Years Later and What I’d Do Differently
I love colour but generally don’t use too much in my own home decor and my client projects. I prefer working with textures. I like to keep my palettes neutral and calm with touches of colour… Read More »Using Texture and Pattern in Home Decor
I decided to write about my gas range after having a few recent conversations with people helping them decide if they should go electric or gas. I used to be all about electric only because it’s what I grew up with and I had a mild fear about using gas, but when we moved into our place over 3 years ago, the gas bill was included in our strata fees and the gas line was already there, so it was a no-brainer to go with a gas range. I immediately got over my fear and now I’ll never go back.
Since we had a limited time to complete our renovations and a very limited budget, we picked our appliances pretty quickly and our gas range was one of the more affordable Maytag ranges and right from the beginning there were problems. The seal around the door has never been installed correctly even after they came for a service call.
Then after a few months the grate that’s on the top of the stove corroded, not just a little bit, but a lot. It was so shocking it made me completely regret purchasing this stove. After a few weeks of trying to get in touch with Maytag, they said they’d send me a replacement grate, but in the end they only sent me half instead of the full 2 pieces. It’s so incredibly ugly and impossible to clean now.
Here’s the corroded mess:
Read More »Why I Dislike My Gas Range
I don’t know about you guys, but I constantly get this urge to remove all colour from my home and stick with a black and white scheme. I think I’ve been spending too much time… Read More »Black, White and Copper Kitchen Inspiration
Let me just start by saying this post is not sponsored, I just felt like sharing some kitchen gadgets and tools I recently purchased that either failed or are surprisingly amazing. A couple of weeks ago a… Read More »Kitchen Gadget Review
Exciting news! Our loft apartment is featured on Design*Sponge. The last few weeks I’ve been taking photos of our place, learning very quickly that interior photography is damn hard! I shared some of my initial shots… Read More »Our Loft Apartment is Featured on Design*Sponge
I’ve posted a few photos of our loft kitchen before, but it’s been a while and thought I’d share an update, because I’m the type of person that likes to constantly move things around.
We recently bought a larger stainless steel island and luckily we were able to sell the old one the same day! We upgraded to a large one, because we had the space and we really needed the extra storage underneath for our pots and pans and the extra counter space is pretty awesome.
Before I get into the photos, here’s a link to a previous post, showing the process of gutting the old loft kitchen and using recycled cabinets to configure a new kitchen layout.
Here’s how things currently look:
Incase you’re curious, yes we did paint our fridge, you can read about that over here.
Here’s a few more photosRead More »Loft Kitchen Update
Today I’m sharing some hardware and fixture inspiration that came to me after a visit to the Interior Design Show West this past weekend. There were so many great brands and some new ones I hadn’t… Read More »Hardware and Fixture Inspiration
Lets take a moment to talk about refrigeration. It’s been on my mind a lot lately. When we bought our place it came with a late 1970’s refrigerator that was in decent enough shape to… Read More »Refrigerator Thoughts