The bedroom makeover in our cottage is now complete and I love the fresh, simple feel. Quite a bit of structural change happened at one end of the room. We stole about a metre from the end to create a cupboard for the bedroom and a cupboard for the adjoining study. This gave us a […]
Cottage Living Room Makeover
As promised, here is the living room makeover in our new cottage. Nothing structural happened here except the widening of the opening to the kitchen, but a lot of new paint was involved and a complete switch out of our over-sized furniture. Because we sold most of our old furniture apart from some family pieces […]
My Bucket List for Minimalism
Ever since Jack Nicholson’s movie came out called The Bucket List, everyone is making one. Well, so am I. But my list is all about minimalism. Here we go – just six for now: Leave our five bedroom, three bathroom home and downsize to a two-three bedroom home since our son has left home and […]
My Minimalist Gift to My Niece
When my father sold our farmhouse up north, he got rid of a trunk full of our old toys. We were all adults but it hurt – big time! I remembered every one of those toys – my Raggedy-Ann doll, the paper dolls with paper wardrobes, the small shop till, the book of Gulliver’s travels […]