Living Space
March 2020 launched a two-year odyssey for us. Not only did it kick off the global pandemic we all faced, but on March 1st 2020, we got the keys to our first home together. And finally, after countless delays, hiccups and dollars spent, we can confidently say that our interior renovations are complete! Of cou
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 perfectly imperfect look and feel. During summer of 2021, they came to visit our home and film a lovely little feature on our home: he
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 to this space, our master bathroom is finally complete! It has been well worth the wait to see this space finally […]
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 global scale, and on an individual scale. Changes big and small impacted everyone uniquely. For us, life’s broader events hit on t
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 room to touch up or install. And it feels oh so good. How fitting that the first room done after all the hard […]
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 Floors called Hayloft which pairs perfectly with our cabin’s existing features and our vision for a cohesively cozy home. It t
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. This weekend I was looking back on old photos from when we got our place in March, and it was a shock to […]
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 floors arrived. Hardwood flooring is a feature so prominent in a design that it’s often one of the first things you source. In our [&
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 its own set of challenges and achievements. Day over day, this house has transformed, and capturing each moment has been an impossib
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 completion: our main bathroom. More than even a kitchen, having a working bathroom by the time we move in was a […]
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 community… So today, in addition to a big renovation and design update on Piper’s Peak, I wanted to share some interesting fac
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 were simply going to do a “partial gut of necessary areas” over a few days, then move forward with the build. But once we
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 integral part of the build and functionality of a home, but of its design as well. It’s a permanent fixture, sure, but [&hell
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 best we can, which means lots of drawing, planning, scheduling, inspiration-hunting, measuring and lots of good, old-fashioned talk
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, hoarded inspiration on Pinterest , and created a massive excel Master List of SKUs and specs. Mike is not only a builder, but [&hell
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 1980s chalet in Whistler—and we could not be more thrilled to finally share it! Our search for a place to call home on the [&helli
