Co-Existing with Nature With CRAFT Floors
All the wood is our home has a story-including our flooring. Made from the salvaged planks from old barns across Canada, our Hayloft floors feature beautiful craftsmanship and a pe
Our Master Bathroom, Revealed!
This room is more than just a bathroom to me—it’s my little wellness escape where I spend a lot of meaningful time. At long last, over 400 days since we first took a hammer
Our Kitchen and Main Floor, Revealed!
To appreciate the story of this transformation, we have to rewind a bit, casting the clock back to March 2020. For everyone on earth, it was a month that changed things—on a glob
Our Basement Bathroom Reveal
Our basement bathroom is the first room in our home to be totally complete. No missing tiles, grout, cabinets or corners. When the door is closed, there is nothing left in that roo
CRAFT Floor’s Simple Tips for Installing Hardwood
Installing your own hardwood is not that difficult—but it does require a pal, a plan, proper tools and time! In our space, we installed a reclaimed Heart Pine product from CRAFT
Our Exterior Envelope Details [and Siding Colour Reveal]!
It’s not hard to imagine how our home looked the first time we visited it one snowy day last November—it’s the five or so stages it’s taken since that muddle the memory. Th
We Picked Our Floors — and They’ve Arrived!
One of the coolest days in any renovation is when finishes arrive—I live for delivery and box opening! And today was a day I’ve dreamed about for months: our CRAFT hardwood flo
We’ve Moved In! (Just in The Knick of Time)
The last time I shared an update on our cabin (AKA Piper’s Peak), the world was a different place—as was our home. But then again, every week here has been eventful, marked by
Our Bathroom Design Plans + Progress (+ Sources)!
I could not be more excited to start seeing the design of Piper’s Peak come to life! And what better place to start sharing our design vision than in the first space to see c
Getting to Know You… (Reno Update on Piper’s Peak)
Over the past month, in addition to intimately getting to know the inside of our home through the process of gutting it, we’ve also come to better know our new, quirky commun
Fully Gutted and Full of Potential
Two weeks into owning #PipersPeak and we’ve officially taken it down to the studs and foundation. In all honesty, we did not anticipate gutting our place to this degree. We w
Finding the Right Light – 15 Lights and Lamps to Buy Right Now
One of the first things we’ll be ordering for our new place is lighting, which will undoubtedly have a huge impact on the overall design of the cabin. Lighting is not just an
The Holistic Approach + Our Kitchen Design [Cabin Update!]
With just three weeks to go until we get the keys to our place, it’s just starting to sink in, and we are so excited!!! We’ve been busy preparing for the renovations as
The Renovation Plan and Design Vision for Our Home
From the day we bought our home (you can read about that here), we started planning the renovation and design of our space. We scribbled in notepads, drafted the home in SketchUp,
We Bought a Chalet!!!
2019 was filled with life-changing moments, and in the final weeks before 2020, life introduced just one more: On December 23rd 2019, we became the proud new owners of an original
