A design & lifestyle blog by kristina
If you didn’t see on Instagram, Ryan and I just completed the majority of the upstairs Ravine House reno! Which meant that last weekend, we were able to move our bed, dresser and clothes up into the master. Can I get a hell yeah for finally having a closet again?! So now that we are “officially”
Loneliness comes up to him like a sniffing dog. It circles him insistently. He waves it away, but it refuses to leave him alone. – The High Mountains of Portugal Fifteen years after Life of Pi, Yann Martel finally returns with his new work of fiction The High Mountains of Portugal. Told in three separate
It’s starting to get really exciting over at the Capilano Part Deux house flip so I decided I finally needed to share an update. But first, if you’ve forgotten what it looked like to start, head here to freshen your memory! Then you can really appreciate how far it has come in the last couple
You know when you find people who just exude cool? And not the ‘I’m trying to be’ cool but the effortless cool? That’s how I felt about Elise Joseph when I stumbled onto her site Pennyweight. She’s a creative consultant, art director and stylist who is incredibly chic…in an incredibly effortless way. The same goes
One of my favourite things to source for projects is lighting. I honestly think lighting can elevate a space from pretty nice to holy $%@! That’s probably why I’ve focused so many posts on lighting too (here, here and here for instance). When it came to choosing sconces for the bathroom in the Ravine House,
I’ll let you in on a little secret…renos very rarely run smoothly. Even for a designer and a contractor, there are still bumps and bruises along the way. We started off the upper floor section of the ravine house reno in March and it got off to a really great start. I thought for sure
One of my favourite summer activities is to be poolside on a hot day, with a great book and a thirst quenching drink, ready to dive into the water at a moment’s notice. There’s nothing more relaxing and refreshing! Now, I’m not lucky enough to have a pool myself but we have some great public
If you remember from my post a few months ago, I had a blast at my first Made Social Co. workshop when I got to make beautifully scented bath bombs at Pura Botanicals. Christine and Andrea are the best and I had such a wonderful time that I was eager to do it all again!
Yay!!! It’s finally time!! Time to share my summer must reads, which I do every summer! This is honestly one of my favourite posts that I look forward to each year (since I’m a bit of a nerdy bookworm). I search high and low for the best novels, biographies, historical fictions, etc. for a few