Welcome to my home! A top to bottom tour

It’s been a long time since I last wrote a blog post. So much has happened in the past few months, and it all culminated on Friday with a For Sale sign going up on our front lawn. Yep, we’re moving! And it’s a big move too – we’re packing up the dogs and heading to Nova Scotia!

Hubby and I have been working hard since the winter renovating, painting, purging, and getting our house in tip-top shape. For the first time in ever, our house is tidy, uncluttered, and CLEAN! Now we just need someone to buy it!

Also for the first time ever, our house has been photographed by a professional photographer, Henry Fernando. So now I can take you on a tour of our whole entire house, including rooms that I’ve never shown you because they were either unfinished or never looked good enough to share!

The thing I like most about the exterior of our house is that it’s different from all the other houses in our neighbourhood. Well, except for the white brick bungalow right next door ;-)

The things you can do with a wide angle lens! I’ve never been able to take pictures like these! Views to and from the front entry…

 

Dining room…

Living room…

Family room…

 

Kitchen…

Laundry/mud room…

Guest bedroom – lots of purple!

Master bedroom…

Our pride and joy, the master bedroom ensuite completely renovated and designed by us :-)

I have NEVER been able to get a shot like this of the vanity!

Hubby’s home office…

I’ve never really liked our guest bathroom because of all the pink, so I’ve never posted pics of it – till now!

Let’s head down to the basement, which has gone through a huge transformation…

My home office… this is going to be a hard room to leave behind, it took forever to paint all those letters!

Craft room…

My office and craft room were the only two spaces in the basement that were finished. The rest of the basement was being used for storage, there was no ceiling, one section had laminate flooring, and the other had dusty rose carpeting. We emptied it out, hubby created a brand new bedroom and bathroom and installed a ceiling and cork flooring, and I painted. And painted and painted and painted… I didn’t think I’d ever finish painting!

This area is staged as a play area for kids. Our dogs think the futon mattress on the floor makes a great doggie bed :-)

A couple of years ago, I won an awesome elephant wall mural from Murals Wallpaper in a giveaway at Mix And Chic. We knew it was going to go on this wall, we just had to wait till the wall was ready! I named the elephant Lewis :-)

 

This is the brand new bedroom that didn’t exist a few months ago. Only the curtains and chandelier are new – I already had everything else, including the furniture from when I was a kid. The tops were a bit banged up, so I pulled out a can of chalk paint and problem solved :-) Even the wall paint was left over from another project.

I’ve decided that I love designing bathrooms :-) I don’t know exactly why, I just do :-)

And finally, the loft home theater. I’m going to miss this room a lot, it’s such a great spot for watching movies & sports…

So that’s our home in all its glory :-) In the almost-14 years that we’ve lived here, we’ve done so many projects and tried out lots of ideas – some good and some not so good! – and have really loved living here. I hope whoever buys our house will love it as much as we do.

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