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Moving

ONE HOUR. From Oshawa to Pickering?? Seriously?!? Do you ever have one of those mornings where you just want to crawl back into bed & pretend it's still the weekend? Well thanks to 401 traffic, today is one of those days. Ok, so we knew that moving from the Rouge Valley border to the furthest possible North East corner of Oshawa while the house is being built would add an annoying inconvenient half hour to our commute, but after 8 months its REALLY starting to take it's toll.  Especially on days when that half hour becomes an hour because random pockets of bumper

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Shopping

Today I got to thinking about how those of us that are passionate about our homes can sometimes do silly and irrational things.  I read this post on Apartment Therapy & it took me back to when we were buying our first home and before we had even moved in, we ran out and bought both dining and bedroom sets! Let me backtrack – We LOVE furniture auctions!  Both of the "impulse buy" purchases we made were simply because we were out driving on Sunday afternoon & happened upon an auction in progress.  We thought – “it might be fun just

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Design

Now that the structure is up finally, we're beginning to switch our focus to planning out the interior spaces. With having such a wide-open floor plan, we figured we'd need some help defining the various spaces so that they best serve our functional needs. On the main floor for example, we knew we wanted to have one really open concept living, dining, lounging, tv watching, all-encompassing space - but what does that really mean in terms of furniture layout and how does that translate into lighting placement & overall space planning? We took to Houzz to post our design dilemma on whether

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Construction

We've walked you through the main floor, as well as the upstairs, so now we figured it's only fair to show you how it all came together from the outside. Front exterior view Rear exterior view It's one thing to see it on paper, but now to actually have the structure up & be able to grasp the scale & depth of things, only then do you really see the beauty of the angles of the design

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Holidays

We're blogging from Barbados today as we're on vacation celebrating Tash's grandmother's 90th birthday.  The other night we decided to pop by one of our favourite spots on the island for an impromptu dessert. Tapas Restaurant is a great little place that you can sit right on the water's edge and enjoy the fantastic food and ambiance. We were enjoying our desserts (apple crumble tart & tempura banana kebabs - soooo good!) when we realized that it was in this very restaurant one year ago that I first pitched the idea to Tash of selling our home & going after our