The New Wrenaissance

Apartment Facelift

Alright so we had planned on moving cause our place needed some serious renos, once we found a new place our current landlords offered to help pay to fix up our place if we stayed cause they love us so much lol. Since we love our area and our neighbours we thought it was a great idea to stay. And so the renos began! I am gonna go by room by room with pictures here for you guys

First off the stairs. Here is a picture of our inspiration (not colour wise just the idea of the wallapaer backed stairs) and a before and then progress pics

I have finished painting all the stairs but haven't got a picture yet. I have to choose a wallpaper still and pick up some tiles for the bottom of the stairs. Up the side wall where the shelves were we will have a cluster wall of frames and art! After pictures by the end of the month

Next the floors. We had nasty ratty carpet in here so we got laminate floors. I took the pups to my parents for the weekend and Nate put them in.

The 1/4 round wasn't painted in that last picture but it is all painted now and we love it!

Next livingroom. When we first moved in we had nothing since we had just moved back from San Diego and everything was hand me downs so our before is pretty meek looking lol. the curtains are going up on Sunday and the pillows for the couch will be done by the end of the month all thanks to my moms amazing custom drapes! donnarobichaud.blogspot.ca/

This one just needs some doors on the front and it's all done!

This is a chest I have had in my family home since I was a kid. It will end up going in the hallway under some art work to double as a bench for putting on shoes and what not. But until we find the perfect coffee table for the livingroom it will stay in here

The two pieces of fabric with the dogs are for accent pillows on the couch and the large roll of fabric is the curtain fabric! They will be installed on Sunday so I will get some pictures up then they are AMAZING!

Now onto the kitchen. We have just barely started but heres what we've got so far.

So those are the befores

This is it so far. We are changing out the ceiling light ( it will go in our stairway) the floors are being redone and we are refacing the cupboards. We just bought the table but have yet to find the perfect chairs to go with. Sheers also still need to be added to the curtains. So it is all a work in progress but here are a few cute pieces I have bought for the kitchen

Awesome little vintage spoon rest I found on Etsy

I bought these on etsy as well in a yellow to match the curtains!

So there is our house progress up till now! Many official after pictures to come in the next month or so. I can't wait!

Miss you guys and sorry for being useless for the last little while!

Fun New Purchases

I love this time of year cause there are so many garage sales, antique sales, festivals and craft sales. Here are some goodies I have picked up in the last little while!

I got these on Etsy for my penpals. They came in the mail this week and they are even nicer in person
Circles and Squares Etsy shop

Great Glebe Garage sale goodies! This garage sale is once a year where a whole area of town turns into the most epic flea market you have ever seen. The Glebe is a pretty well off part of town so when rich people want to rid their junk there are usually some pretty awesome finds!. We didn't spend more than 9$ on all this stuff! The 2 stools are goign to be refinished for our lovingroom. And the axe is for a fun DIY project I have been wanting to do for a while now here is a picture to get an idea.

Ours will be painted in a teal colour to match the livingroom

Today we went to Idle Hands craft and vintage sale on Waverly right by our place. They had so much cool stuff! The wall art for the kitchen was made by a really nice lady who had so many cool pieces be sure to check out her blog eufemiabella.blogspot.ca/ . I got amazing smelling Mint Rose bath salts from a small local company opening up a store on Somerset this week purpleurchinsoap.com/. The book is actually a blank notebook made from repurposed old novels! The girl who makes them is on tumblr be sure to go follow her saplingseedling.tumblr.com/ . And lastly a cool little post card for one of my penpals!

FOOOODD

Alright so once the nice weather comes I get half lazy with cooking cause we really just end up BBQ'ing almost every night. Here are a few meals we have had in the past little while including my easter egg cookies. It was my first attempt at icing flooding, learned some lessons lol not the best looking but they were so fun to make.