Polished Concrete Floors
As soon as we got the keys to our place we got to work by quickly ripping out the laminate wood floors and selling them on craigslist (surprisingly they sold within a few hours). The… Read More »Polished Concrete Floors
As soon as we got the keys to our place we got to work by quickly ripping out the laminate wood floors and selling them on craigslist (surprisingly they sold within a few hours). The… Read More »Polished Concrete Floors
The entrance to our apartment was kind of depressing. Peel and stick vinyl tiles were placed just in the entrance area and they were the biggest pain in the butt to remove. It was like… Read More »Apartment Entrance Before and After
Last week I found a cabinet for free and saw that it had some potential under the beat up ugly white paint job to possibly be a Mid Century style project. From the inside I… Read More »Mid Century Modern Before and After
I thought it was time to take a few new photos of our bathrooms. This post will just be about the downstairs bathroom renovation, look out for a post about the upstairs bathroom soon! Even… Read More »Downstairs Bathroom Renovation Update
A while ago I posted about a dresser I found that was in need of a lot of love. I realized I forgot to post an update showing how I’ve decorated it. I bought these… Read More »Dresser update
When we moved into our place a year ago, we realized we had a lot of small projects ahead of us, sanding, paintings, patching etc… and this was after the major renovation had been completed.… Read More »Wood Railing Nightmare
It’s hard to believe but we’ve been living in our new place for almost a year. We’re really settled in and happy, but i’m always looking for small new projects to work on around the… Read More »Nightstand Before and After
In my building everyone has different door designs, colours, numbers, knobs etc. Our door was in bad shape and in need of some serious TLC. It was painted with a nasty silver acrylic, it had… Read More »Front Door Makeover
We’ve been pretty busy getting the apartment “livable” but we did manage to do a quick makeover of a retro table Andrew was given from his mom. It was in rough shape, rusty legs and… Read More »Retro Kitchen Table: Before and After
I am the type of person that likes to be thrifty when wrapping gifts (and for pretty much everything else in life too). I especially hate buying wrapping paper, so I tend to recycle and… Read More »Christmas Wrapping
Tonight I went to the Design*Sponge book tour at Anthropologie. It was great to meet the face behind the blog i’ve been reading for ages. Grace is so kind and so petite! Even though you… Read More »Design Sponge Book Tour: Vancouver