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A Red and Gold Christmas Tablescape

December 2, 2019

After I posted my Thanksgiving tablescape (you can view it here), I had quite a few requests for a Christmas one. Tablescapes and table settings are a favourite of mine, especially holiday themed ones, so I was more than happy to oblige!

Today I’m sharing my red and gold themed Christmas tablescape with you.

I always start with some greenery, whether real or faux, as I find it really helps fill the table space and adds a nice warmth to the overall space. This year I used some faux garland and draped it down the middle of the table. I added some red glass ball ornaments throughout the garland to tie in with the red charging plates. I felt like it needed just a little something more so I added some little white ceramic houses and some tall white wood trees for height as well.

I used these classic red charging plates and I layered a simple white dinner plate on top on them. Next I added in these sweet red scallop edged white napkins and these festive dessert plates I’ve had for a few years and absolutely love. They have 4 different words written across them: noel, cheer, joy and wish. So festive right?! You could add in any decorative plates here though: a gold edged plate or a Christmas patterned one. The rest of the table setting is so simple, have some fun with the dessert plates!

Now that the table is all set… lets start planning the meal!

xo Rachel

An Update on our Powder Room Makeover

November 25, 2019

When we moved into this house I loved the powder room tile so much! The floor is a marble hex and the marble continues half way up the wall in rectangles mimicing a wainscoting sort of feel. It’s really stunning and exactly what I would’ve done too. The rest of the room though felt really disjointed to me. The toilet and vanity were very modern looking and the vanity was also a dark brown (we know I love white and bright). Neither were my taste and I didn’t feel they suited the classic feel of the tile at all. The room was also wallpapered and really, it just wasn’t my style. In addition… the ceiling was painted yellow haha!. So I knew I wanted to keep the marble but update the rest of the small room to suit our style more.

Here is a photo of what the room looked like when it was listed for sale and basically what it looked like when we moved in (minus the art).

The first thing we did was update the toilet and the vanity to the ones below. I love the toilet we chose and its my very favourite toilet (I know, who knew you could have a favourite toilet but its really so pretty). The vanity we chose I really liked as it has a really pretty white stone counter and I loved the open shelving and slates at the bottom. Next we removed the mirror and I ordered the round black mirror below for the room (it arrives this week!)

I’ve also changed the faucet to this more traditional one (and here’s a tiny sneak peek at what it’s starting to look like!)

I plan to add wallpaper again to the room and this is the one I plan to order. It’s the prettiest wallpaper I think I’ve ever seen.

(photo credit above to @monikahibbs)

I just need to decide on lighting for the room. The room doesn’t have a window but I really want to do a single sconce above the mirror, so fingers crossed it doesn’t leave the room too dark.

So thats the plan for the room and the progress we’ve made so far. Im hoping we can finish it off before the new year (if I write it down here, maybe Ill hold us accountable to it haha). I can picture it all together and I’m so excited and can’t wait to show you the final reveal!

Sources: vanity, toilet, faucet, mirror

xo Rachel

Home Decor

A Gold and Pumpkin filled Thanksgiving Tablescape

November 22, 2019

We hosted Thanksgiving this year and though my husband is generally the chef on this holiday (and basically every other day of the year haha) I get excited to do the decor. I tried to use a lot of pieces I already owned from previous years but still change it up a bit from last years decor. This years tablescape is similar to last years but I added a large faux pumpkin as well as some mini faux pumpkins and gold votive candle holders this year. I love how it came together.

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

xo Rachel

Lifestyle & Family

Owen’s 2nd Birthday – A Puppy Party!

November 19, 2019

It’s taken me over a month to get this post up! Life with kids is just so busy isn’t it?! In early October my littlest man turned 2! Everyone always says it but thats because its true – the time just passes so quickly. I keep thinking about how I’ve only got him home with me for another 2 years and then all my babes will be in school. Wow, okay can’t think about that anymore! Back to the party!

Our little man is obsessed with puppies right now. Everywhere we go, he points them out and screams ‘a puppy’. He only lets us watch paw patrol on the tv haha and he has to carry at least 3 puppy stuffies everywhere he goes. So naturally his party theme this year just had to be puppies!

I started with these meri meri puppy plates, cups and napkins (meri meri is one of my favourite brands for party supplies) and the party planning took off from there. I found the paw print scrapbook paper at Michaels and thought it would make a cute placemat. I had the bone shaped place cards made for a cute personalized touch for the guests and then I scattered some cute paw prints around the table.

I took the mint and white colours from the puppy cups for the balloon colours and purchased some paw print balloons on etsy for a balloon garland (I just love a balloon garland).

We ordered the puppy cake to match the plates and it turned out so well! A friend of mine made the cookies to match the theme as well.

And of course every puppy dog themed party calls for hot ‘dogs’ on the menu. Hot dogs also happen to be one of his favourite foods haha so we set up a little hot dog station for the guests too.

For the party favours we gave each babe a little puppy of their own to adopt.

The finishing touch was the adorable puppy shaped balloons I found on amazon. They have little legs and can be pulled around like you’re walking them. They were so fun for the kids. The party turned out so well and most importantly – our little guy had a blast!

xo, Rachel

Home Decor

Our Fireplace got a marble makeover!

November 18, 2019

When we moved into this house (about 3 months ago) I loved that it had a fireplace but I knew that I wanted to update it. I’m pretty sure it had the original builder tiles (12×12 floor tiles cut to fit). They were a boring shade of beige and the install was just not well done. It just looked dated to me. I knew I wanted to change it to marble and after looking at a few samples I decided to go with a classic rectangular tile for the surround.

Here are some before photos of the fireplace.

After the old tile and drywall was removed, it was discovered that the builder had not built the fireplace out far enough (they just used a thick amount of cement to adhere the old tiles and fill the depth) so a layer of plywood had to be added to bring the depth forward. Then a new layer of drywall was added and then the tiles could go on!

This is a photo taken after the old tiles and drywall were removed. You can see how far the fireplace insert sticks out past the wood frame.

This is with the new additional plywood added.

Then the new drywall was added and the tiles went up… it just needs grout!

And finally here is the after!

Im so so happy with the end result, it looks much more updated and matches our style much better. And it looks so pretty decorated for Christmas!

xo Rachel

Home Decor

One Month in our New Home and Taking Time to Appreciate Progress.

September 28, 2019

We’ve officially been in our new home for one month! I am happy to say that the transition has gone really well. The kids have adapted to their new home and new school so well and we have too.

We hired the cutest mover below.

3 excited kids waving goodbye to our old home.

This is our first time purchasing a resale home. Our previous two homes we bought new from builders so I was a little worried that it may take a while for this home to feel like ours. I wondered if it would feel like I was living in someone else’s home for awhile, but I’m happy to say that it felt like our home almost instantly and the more and more we change and update makes it feel even that much more like ours.

We have big plans for this home. We purposely bought a pretty basic home (interior wise) so that we could change it and update it to our style. I find sometimes when you have big plans for a space it can be hard to be patient and see the progress you’ve already made, because you just see everything you still want to do! But really, when I think about it, we have made a lot of changes in just one month. We’ve updated light fixtures (before and afters of that coming soon), we’ve hung curtain rods and drapery, changed out almost all the doorknobs (17+ and counting), swapped out toilets, installed new garage door openers, painted a dining room, ordered wallpaper and lighting and new furniture…etc, etc

From shiny brass, dented and tarnished to…

matte, black and gorgeous.

We went with these gorgeous gold rods in a lot of the rooms. Ill be doing a tutorial blog post on how I hung these faux pinch pleat drapes soon.

Seeing it all written down.. I’d say that’s pretty good progress for just one month in. So even though there are still a lot of things we still want to do (some are pretty big ones – like trim work, crown moulding, gutting bathrooms and the kitchen), I’m going to sit back and appreciate on the progress we’ve already made in our new home.