Over a course of a week in February, our apartment went from feeling like a pretty-cool-place-that-we-lived to feeling like a home. And all that it took? 1) Hanging up our Printstagram, which I told you about in February, 2) hanging our art behind the couch, which I’ll tell you about someday soon, and 3) finding
Category: Craigslist Decorator
Several weeks ago I talked about the pretty new handmade barnwood desks in our office. But I didn’t show you what the rest of the office is looking like. I completed the entire office redecoration project while the hubs was out of town at a wedding in mid-August. When he got home, we had undergone
This morning I woke up to this comment on my last post: “What do you look for on Craigslist? How do you decide what will/won’t work in your house?” and decided that the answer warranted an entire blog post! This post ended up being over 1,300 words long, so I was right! I’m pretty sure
This week has been crazy. I’m tagging our Canadian tax software like crazy. I had a full day wedding out in Fort Langley on Saturday. And I spent all day Sunday redecorating the office and constructing barnwood desks (barnwood sourced from an old shelving unit I bought from an awesome craigslist seller for $40). A
No mini project today, friends (though I did finish the lasts coats of poly on three more colourful kitchen table chairs yesterday… sneak peak here). Instead, today I’m going to talk about our VERY RED bedroom and how we plan to “un-red the bed(room)”. I introduced you to the bedroom on our house tour, but
I mentioned last week that we picked up a 3 ceramic pot thing-y for $0.50 at a local garage sale. Every week I spend at least $2 and usually about $8 on fresh herbs, so I knew from the moment I set my eyes on the ceramic thing-y that it was going to become an
Getting a couch. Stressful: always. Extra stressful if you don’t currently have a couch and have to rest your weary bum on the floor. You’ve already heard about our trials and tribulations with Karl the Sofabed. Our next step after that was to head to Ikea to see if we would have even liked Karl
I have a love/hate relationship with garage sales. I love happening upon garage sales with good deals and sweet stuff. I hate heading to garage sales with a particular item in mind. I love garage sales where people are just trying to clean out their homes, and price their goods accordingly. I hate garage sales
We have medium-sized renter plans for our kitchen (which I showed you for the first time a couple of weeks ago). The colour is going to change. The table is going white. We are doing mis-matched colourful chairs. The first such chair is the white one you see in the picture. This chair was free
Hi everybody! My post today isn’t super wordy, but it is super exciting! It’s HOUSE TOUR TIME! Remember ya’ll… this is the before post. There is a lot of work to be done. I took these images this very morning, so you have a live idea of where I am living! It is clear that
Yesterday I learned a valuable lesson. When something is too good to be true on craigslist… Tell the seller you have a truck. Let me back up a moment. Remember a few weeks ago when I told you about my new project “The Craigslist Decorator“? Well despite not having even moved into our place yet,