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This weekend, a few us took a ride to visit our friend Melissa for some girl time. It was a great day/night with lots of baby talk, relaxing, and me flipping over what Melissa has done with her new house that she and her husband recently built. I came home with an urge to: a) get my house as spic and span as Melissa's, b) try my hand at making my own headboard (will share more on this later in the week), and c) share these pictures with you! Today I'm sharing her foyer: I love this idea of framing a key to a first home: Melissa ordered the Farrow & Ball wallpaper samples that I posted about here and framed them: If this foyer doesn't make you feel welcomed, I don't know what does! Thank you Melissa for having us! More of her house to come this week. Stay tuned! - Caitlin
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Sal and I purchased our first home in 2021! We've been busy ever since, making updates to the charming bungalow. We'd be delighted with any contributions made to our next project - the master bathroom!
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We were staying at the Grand Hyatt in Tokyo and discovered that there was a hedgehog cafe within walking distance from our hotel. Margot Robbie went to this same cafe a few months prior and her instagram photo of her holding one of the hedgehogs was adorable. Since we already v
We just recently purchased tickets to the Shun Yen Ballet which is currently on tour in our area the first week of January. I must say I am very excited about it as I have never been to any ballet, symphony or anything of the sort. From what I can tell in the pamphlet that was handed out to us during the time of ticket purchase, I can clearly see that it will be an experience never to be forgotten. Just the costumes and stage backdrops alone are breathtakingly beautiful and full of wondrous spirit. It is truly an event not to be missed. Chinese culture has always fascinated me; there is something so intriguing, mysterious and immortal about it. Perhaps that explains my love and obsession for feng shui, blue and white porcelain, Chinese cabinets and chinoiserie. Chinoiserie, derived from the word "chinois" French for "Chinese", was a style inspired by art and design from China, Japan and other Asian countries. In the 18th century, porcelain, silk, and lacquerware imported from China and Japan were extremely fashionable. This led many British designers and craftsmen to imitate Asian designs and to create their own fanciful versions of the East. Characteristics of chinoiserie are Chinese figures, fantastic landscapes with whimsical pavillions and fabulous birds, dragons and pagodas.
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We are out the other end of our IKEA kitchen design & install and hindsight, as you know, is a wonderful thing. Our family joke is now we are ready to tackle an IKEA kitchen. This is the first of a series of posts around the design and installation of our new kitchen. Design is key Without good design any reno is throwing good money after bad. If you haven't really thought out how you want to work in your kitchen, and how you want it to look overall, no matter how well you install it, you won't be happy. I hope some of my musings, and what I learned as I worked through the design process, will be helpful to you if you are planning an IKEA kitchen as a renovation project. Get what you want by designing well Know what's hidden Know the bones of your kitchen so there'll be no surprises. We wanted 90 inch pantry units and had a bulkhead with pot lights in it. I kept nagging my husband to have a look, and I was so glad because to our surprise we found vent work. Just enough to cause me to move to 80 inch pantries. Not a happy camper letting go of my floor to ceiling pantries, and needing more filler pieces to accommodate what was available in that height pantry. We were also planning to keep our current footprint and we knew that the flooring did not extend under our cabinets. That meant we had to get all our cabinet measurements correct and use fillers to make it come out even. If you have an island or peninsula and are keeping your existing flooring, it is even more important to do careful measurement in terms of depth. We found out we could not have a toe kick on the back of the peninsula so the cover panel had to extend to the floor. Analyze your current kitchen Make a list of what works and what annoys you in your current kitchen layout. For everything that annoys you, you should try to come up with a solution if possible. It is easier and more cost effective to keep appliances where they are, but sometimes their placement is part of the inefficiency. Our cooktop and oven were in a major traffic area, and it was downright dangerous when we entertained. You could also see the stove top from the dining room; I am not a tidy cook. We chose to flip the refrigerator to the cooking area, and make that area into a wall of pantries with the refrigerator centred. The perfect solution to storage in a walkway. 80s cooking area Standard sizes for pantries Fridge and pantries 80s layout of kitchen across from cooking area Moving appliances meant hiring an electrician, but it was worth it. Everyone expected me to move my sink under the window, but that would have meant a very squat prep area if the stove moved to where the fridge was. When I stand at my sink now I have a view of two prominent St. John's landmarks - Signal Hill and Cape Spear. Why would I want to exchange that for a view of my neighbour's house? Now I have a huge prep area and I can make all the mess I want when I entertain. Perfect planning! Several friends brought up the idea of "updating" to an island. I like my kitchen to myself when I cook, even when I entertain. No island for me, and it could have happened in the space without too much effort. Personal choices are important in design. I made an entertaining hang out area by removing the half wall in pic below and opening it up to the family room. Another big problem for us was a bottleneck area at the end of the peninsula because of a contractor error in the initial construction. The wall by the oven was built 10 inches too long and changing it was complicated and expensive because it contained pipes, heating and air exchanger vent work, plus light switches. When we redesigned we took three inches off the length of the peninsula to open up the walkway. That was possible because we had floor tile left over. Visit an IKEA store By chance we ended up grounded for 24 hours in Toronto when returning from a trip. We took advantage of that time ( a year before our reno) to check out everything kitchen related. I took over a 100 pics of things that interested me, and I kept referring to them as I designed. If you can't do that, find someone who has designed and installed an IKEA kitchen and go for a chat. I managed to find two people who were obliging, and it was helpful even after the store visit. Start a reno board on Pinterest Look at various IKEA kitchen layouts and cabinet styles online. Think about improving storage options especially if you have a smallish kitchen. Pinterest is a great resource and you can pin everything you see on one board. Consider a secret board so you can make comments and track ideas or a shared secret board if you have a design partner. Check out my Kitchen reno board here and a previous post about Finding your decor style. Find inspiration pictures Your kitchen should meet your needs in style and function. Make it yours. Here are two pics that helped me refine the look I wanted. They are not everyone's cup of tea! Create a vision Many people just go headlong into a reno and don't stop to think about their design aesthetic. What kind of feel do you want in the space? What style of cabinets and layout suits that feel? What is the rest of your home like? Are there interior aspects of the cabinets that will add to how you want to feel in your space? After all the cabinets and gray horizontal lines in my old kitchen I wanted something visually quieter this time around. The two photos above illustrate "the feel" I wanted : uncluttered, quiet, airy, bright, calm and minimal, but with elements of warmth and nature. These are the words I kept in my head throughout the design process. I wrote them down and checked my decisions against them constantly. You will probably have other words entirely, but have descriptive words as benchmarks for decisions. I really wanted a kitchen that flowed from the rest of our house and reflected our arty, organic and calm decor style. Uncluttered ...lots of thought to interior storage options and eliminating "stuff" you don't need Airy ... an absence of upper cabinets so your eye moved around the space Calm and bright... from colour and style choices and layout Warm and quiet ... no laminate, granite, or other hard surface counters Organic... from natural products like wood, cork, plants etc. Stick to your vision A reno is a headache in many ways, and you will reach a point where you are fed up and want to take the easy way out. Don't. Take a break from it and look at the problem with fresh eyes. Make all decisions based on your initial concepts for the space. Work out a rough sketch on paper Perhaps it's my age and my visual art training, but I begin everything with paper and pencil. I found the kitchen booklet we picked up at IKEA a great help when doing this because all cabinet sizes were listed and you could plainly see what was inside each one. There is an online version. I didn't spend a lot of time at this stage, just enough to decide on the flow and placement of drawers or doors. Refine your sketch in the kitchen planner I work with design apps all the time, but I found the IKEA kitchen planner very frustrating. It had lots of little glitches, and if you have an island or peninsula as I did, the cabinets kept wanting to line up by a wall. I was also working on a MAC. In the end I refined the plan enough to send to IKEA and get the order made, but it never looked pretty. Imagine working in your new kitchen Once you have a preliminary design in mind, consider it the next time you bring home groceries. Is there a place for everything. If you are entertaining, is there a place for all those things you only use every now and then? Prepare an imaginary meal and clean up. Are your movements efficient? Have you solved all the design issues in your previous kitchen? Explain your design to someone outside your family Walk through your design with someone outside the family and explain your layout decisions. This really helped me confirm that I wanted things the way I thought. You also have an opportunity to question the IKEA staff when you order your kitchen. They were super helpful when I called. Record your questions before IKEA ordering I had at least ten questions recorded for clarification when I called to place my order. Many of them were of a confirmation type, making sure I had interpreted the cabinets properly and that I could do what I wanted to do. And yes, you will have more than one design. I'm happy to answer any questions or hear your comments about your IKEA kitchen design suggestions. The big reveal is coming up in the next post and yes, it was worth all the thought, frustration and mess....
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