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Joyful Summer Home Tour 2017

Welcome to our Joyful Summer Home Tour! I’ve joined together with eight other amazing bloggers to share our homes all dressed for summer! You can follow along with all the other tours by clicking on the links at the bottom of this post. Now grab a drink, sit back and enjoy!

We love the coastal feel in our home. My parents were born on an Island, so I guess its in my blood. We also live in a lakeside community which all naturally lends itself to a coastal vibe in our decor. I’m drawn to the soft colours of watery blues and sandy neutrals. I just find it all very calm and soothing, much like being on the shore with the waves coming in.

(Some products have been sponsored, all thoughts, opinions and photography are my own)

If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ll know that I love blues and hydrangeas. So it’s not a far reach to go coastal! I simply added some seashells in a large vase, coral, some blue ginger jars and my driftwood candle holder on the mantel.

I got these gorgeous “Cordoba” pink and “Chinese Batik” blue pillows on the sofa from Danielle Oakey Shop. I simply adore all her beautiful pillow covers and they’re so well made too.

I picked up that little picture of Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia, from a thrift store. It goes so well in the room.

The driftwood candle holder was one of the very first projects I did when I first started blogging seven years ago. I love the quirky shape and how I managed to get tea lights all along it.

The last shot of this room and the boys have already been all over the cushions and couldn’t wait to take a nap!

Shop the Living Room/Get the Look

From our cozy living room we go into the breakfast nook. I love these little hooks and they’re the greatest for hanging decor and a aprons etc.

When I’m preparing a meal or having people over, I prefer to do a buffet. I find it so much easier and relaxed and less stressful than setting a table.

I already had the hydrangeas and picked some wildflowers in the park on my way home from the shop. It made for a lovely bouquet.

I set the table and used a linen curtain panel for a table runner. Use whatever you have on hand.

I love these blue floral pillows! They are such a classic pattern and they fit well with my salad plates too!

Shop the Nook/Get the Look

Sources:

Pillows on Sofa, Danielle Oakey Shop

Sofa and Chairs, IKEA

Basket, Paisley Pillows, Throw, Homesense

Dining Chairs, IKEA

Table,Thrift find

Blue Floral Pillows, Market Bag, Penney & Co.

Dinner Plates, Placemats, Wine glasses, IKEA

Salad Plates,Gold Cutlery, Pier 1

Water glasses, Urban Barn

I hope you enjoyed the tour! I’ll be sharing Part two soon so be sure to subscribe and don’t miss a post! Don’t forget to check out my friends and their tours for some amazing summer decor, the links are below.

Blessings,

Kim

Wednesday, May 31st

Kate – White Lane Decor

Lisa- Farmhouse On Boone

Natalie- My Vintage Porch

Thursday, June 1st

Laura- Meaningful Spaces

Stephanie- Belle Amour Blog

Marci- Lemons to Lovelys

Friday, June 2nd

Hayley- A House With Books

Jordon- Jordecor

Kim- Kim Powers Style

Spring Home Tour | Part 2

5:00 am by kim 30 Comments

Spring Home Tour

Hello again everyone and welcome to my Spring Home Tour Part 2! This week I’ve joined up with 20 Canadian bloggers for the Canadian Bloggers Spring Home Tour hosted by Shannon at AKA Design and Christina at The DIY Mommy For those of you who are new around here, my name is Kim and I’m so excited to share a little more of my home with you all!

In my previous Spring Home Tour Part 1, I shared My living room and the breakfast nook. This week I’ll be sharing the dining room, the guest room and the Master bedroom. I try to make this as simple as possible and start with a good spring cleaning. Then I change out the winter throw pillows and bedding for some fresh spring ones. Mostly using pieces that I already have. A few little fresh and faux flowers and greens and my home is ready for spring! So let’s begin the tour, grab a cup of something comfy, sit back and enjoy!

Guest room

In the guest room I changed out the winter bedding and added some spring bedding I’ve had for years in beautiful shades of blue and sage. I used the same colours for the throw pillows as well. A few fresh and faux flowers and greenery and everything looks bright, fresh and ready for spring!

The guest room is the sunniest and brightest one in the house and a favourite of Jack who loves to lay in here. He also loves to follow me around so If I’m taking pics, he’s sure to be in them! This room is used mostly by my daughter and Son in law when they come to visit so it’s nice to keep it warm and welcoming.

I’ve white washed this dresser and then sanded it down, which I may do again. 🙂 I have a tutorial for that here.

Sources

Master Bedroom

In the master, I changed out the bedding from winter to spring, added some fresh flowers and the green magnolia wreath. It’s nice to have faux florals and greens, unless you’re able to keep up with fresh ones…which I’m not! Lol. I made the blue velvet pillow and the little one in front of it was made out of a throw rug. I have a tutorial for that here. The rug is from my daughter and I thought it would look great in here. It goes so well with the blues in the bedding.

Sources

Headboard: Homesense | Bedside tables: Thrift finds | Bedding: Homesense | Lumbar Pillows: By me | Rug: Homesense

Dining Room

In the dining room I did some spring cleaning and removed a lot of extra dishes etc. I changed out the curtains for one’s that I already had. Replacing the white fur throw pillows for these blue and white linen ones makes such a difference! I’ve had these linen pillows for years and they’re my favourite! For the mantel I placed a couple of topiaries with some vintage brass candle holders I’ve been collecting and a brass terrarium. Some gorgeous hydrangeas and a few little faux fern stems to add some freshness and greenery.

Sources

Armoires: Pier 1 Imports | Table: Thrift find | Dining Chairs: IKEA | Wing back Chairs: Thrift finds |Light Fixture: Homesense

Thanks so much for joining me again for another Spring Tour, I hope you were able to find some inspiration for your own home, and please continue on the tour for more! All the links are below.

Blessings!

Kim

MONDAY

AKA DESIGN – LIFE IS A PARTY – LEMON THISTLE – CLEAN AND SENSIBLE

TUESDAY

BROOKLYN BERRY DESIGNS – AMIDST THE CHAOS – THE HAPPY HOUSIE – PMQ FOR TWO – ELLIVEN STUDIO

WEDNESDAY

SATORI DESIGN FOR LIVING – SUBURBLE – SO MUCH BETTER WITH AGE – POP OF PRETTY – THIS LITTLE ESTATE

THURSDAY

THE DIY MOMMY – A PRETTY LIFE IN THE SUBURBS – WOMEN IN REAL LIFE – KIM POWER STYLE – THE LEARNER OBSERVER

FRIDAY

THE CREEKLINE HOUSE – LOVE CREATE CELEBRATE

Simple Spring Home Tour 2017 | Part 1

5:00 am by kim 31 Comments

Simple Spring Home Tour 2017

Thanks so much for joining along with me and fifteen other bloggers as we share our homes for the Joyful Spring Home Tour. If you’re coming from Haley at the The MountainView Cottage welcome, Isn’t that bedroom gorgeous? You can find links to all the bloggers at the bottom of this post where you’ll find tons of inspiration for your own homes. So grab a cup of something comforting, settle in for my simple spring home tour and enjoy.

I’ll be sharing my living room and breakfast nook this week for Part 1 of the tour and the following week I’ll be sharing Part 2. I called it the simple spring home tour because changing out your decor for spring doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive. I simply changed out my winter throw pillows for some more springlike colours and textures. Then I added some fresh and faux flowers as well as some greenery! It really can be that simple and easy.

You may find the odd pet hanging around but they come with the home!

The shiplap off the kitchen here is new and I love it. I added these little coat hooks and it’s a great place to hang your apron..and any odd wreaths you may want to hang up too! The wreaths bring a great hit of green to the space making it feel fresh and springlike.

The coffee table was a thrift find and I stripped it down of all its old varnish to reveal this beauty! I think it’s a one of a kind piece and it’s added such warmth to the living room. I’ve layered it up with a few pieces as well as fresh and faux flowers. Nothing says spring like tulips and hydrangeas!

My home is pretty white and neutral so it makes it quite easy to change things up. Trading out the winter pillows for these beautiful blues and adding the flowers and greenery is all it’s taken to spruce this room up for spring.

I kept it pretty simple but added a little whimsy to my mantel this year in the form of this bust. She has a hollow place in the top of her head where you can place plants. She now has a lovely asparagus fern for hair! I just call her “my lady”. With the addition of these wooden bead “pearls” I’d say she looks pretty striking! Plants always make a space fresher.

The gorgeous pillow on the chair was made by me from a throw rug, you can find the tutorial here. I love the colour blue and come spring you’ll find it all throughout my home. It makes me think I live in a coastal cottage by the sea. The lake is actually down the street, so I’m not that far off… a girl can dream right?

This is our little breakfast nook. Other than changing out the curtains to spring/summer ones, the only changes I made in here were to add these tulips. Once the tulips are gone, I’ll add a plant or some faux greenery to keep it looking fresh. All pretty simple touches that make a big impact

Thanks so much for dropping by! Don’t forget to join me again next week for Part 2 of my spring home tour.. be sure to subscribe and it will be sent directly to your inbox!

Please follow the links below to continue on with this tour, there is so much more to see!

Tour Schedule

Monday March 13

Maison de Pax | Lemons to Lovelys | TIDBITS | Belle Amour Blog

Tuesday March 14

The Mountain View Cottage | Kim Power Style | Meaningful Spaces | My Vintage Porch

Wednesday March 15

The Porch Light Cottage | White Lane Decor | Delightfully Noted

March 16

JorDecor | Farmhouse On Boone | A House With Books

A Rustic Christmas Table Setting

6:00 am by kim 2 Comments

A Rustic Christmas Table Setting

Hello everyone! Welcome into the dining room while I share my rustic Christmas Table Setting. It’s simple, easy and festive.

I found the inspiration for my table in my wooden slice chargers. I used them last Christmas too, they’re too good not to use as much as possible! You can find last year’s post here.

Everything that I used to set the table were things that I had on hand already. The only new purchase was this gorgeous gold cutlery, an early Christmas gift to myself! I love adding a bit of glam and shine to the rustic look of the wood to balance out the whole setting.

I used an old piece of wood up the centre of the table and added candles of different heights. Then I covered the wood with some fresh cedar and boxwood. I added a few Christmas balls and a long string of fairy lights. So simple and easy to do but it makes a big impact!

With the leftover boxwood, I wired together some stems to make these little wreaths for each setting.

I also made a couple of boxwood wreaths using six inch embroidery hoops and a glue gun. These were hung on the armoire handles.

Thanks so much for joining me again.If you’d like to see more of these posts, you can sign up to subscribe and receive them straight into your inbox. I hope everyone has a great week in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the last week before Christmas!

-Kim

I’ll be linking up at The Nester

Canadian Bloggers Christmas Home Tour 2016

6:00 am by kim 28 Comments

A Festive and Cozy Christmas Tour

Welcome everybody and thank you for joining me and 28 other talented bloggers and friends for the Canadian Bloggers Christmas Tour! This is my second year being part of this great group of bloggers hosted by the lovely Christina from The Diy Mommy. This is also home tour number two of the season for me. If you missed last year’s tour, you can find that here, and if you’ve missed my recent Christmas tour you can find that here.

Our first stop is the master bedroom. My house is pretty small and my master is no exception, It fits my kingsize bed and my two sewing-machine-tables-turned-nightstands perfectly though.

I kept the Christmas decor in the bedroom simple, easy and cozy. A boxwood wreath, some winter themed bedding, a few little baubles and some natural decor items were all I added to give it a festive feel.

I found this winter themed bedding in October and knew I needed it for my Christmas decor. It will last until February!

Next stop is the living room with a view into the breakfast nook. My decor centered around the toile fabric on the cushions. I found this fabric years ago at a garage sale and have used it as curtains before. I think it looks great as cushion covers. The pink pointsettia fit right in, I loove the colour!

The pom poms on this throw fit in with the felt pom pom garland on the mantel and in the breakfast nook perfectly.

I love the colour and whimsy these little felt pom pom garlands add.

I made this little bunny years ago and he has a lot of sentimental value. He can be found under the tree every year.

From the living room you can see into my breakfast nook. I’ve decorated it with a few gingerbread houses.

This is what it looked like for my last tour when it was decorated for Christmas brunch.

This is what the tree looks like at night. It’s a cozy spot to sit in the evening by the light of the tree and with the fireplace going.

Thanks so much for joining me! Please make sure to visit all of the 28 other beautiful home tours featured this week. You can find all of the links at the bottom of this post. I hope you can find some inspiration to help make your own home festive and cozy!

Monday

northern style exposure
The Learner Observer
The Uncommon Law
Heather In Heels
Clean and Scentsible
THE SWEETEST DIGS

Tuesday

Amidst the Chaos
Brooklyn Berry Designs
lemon Thistle
Suburble
Life is a Party
PMQ for two

Wednesday

Love Create Celebrate
Satori Design for Living
A Pop of Pretty
So Much Better With Age
VinYet ETC
Woman in Real Life

Thursday

The DIY Mommy
Fresh Crush
Time With Thea
A Pretty Life
Home To Heather
Nalles House

Friday

This Little Estate
Craftberry Bush
The Happy Housie
Kimpowerstyle
Elliven Studio

I’ll be linking up to The Nester

Joyful Holiday Home Tour 2016

6:00 am by kim 17 Comments

Joyful Holiday Home Tour 2016

Welcome to the Joyful Holiday Home Tour ! I’m so excited to join along with seven other talented bloggers to share our homes all done up for Christmas. This is one of two tours I’m a part of this year. I’ll also be joining in with The Canadian Bloggers Christmas Home Tour as well, so stay tuned for more! If you’re following the tour in order, you just came from Natalie from My Vintage Porch’s home. I loved every bit of her gorgeous farmhouse style! If you missed it you can see it here you will be glad you did! OK then, grab a cup of whatever you fancy, settle in and lets get started! In this tour I’ll be sharing a few spaces, one of them being my guest room that I have been working on over the past five weeks. I call it my “mini makeover” as it’s been a fairly simple and easy project. Since I’ve chosen this tour to reveal the guest room makeover, we’ll start here.

When my eldest daughter left home, the room looked very stark and empty. I decided that I needed to freshen up the space and add a few touches to make it homey and lived in again. So I spent a few weeks working on little projects that would make it warm and inviting. The buffalo check and ticking pillows were some of my sewing projects for this room, along with the tea towel bedskirt. If you missed the tea towel bedskirt post you can find it here.

The slipcover was the biggest project for this room. I had found an ugly brown velvet wingback that was in good shape. When I saw a great denim fabric on for 50 % off I thought it was a great opportunity to try my hand at making a slipcover again. It took me a few days of marathon sewing but was so worth it! You can find that post here.

You’ll notice a couple of my little guys in the pics. There is no way of working in any room without them following me around! I don’t try to stop them anymore because it’s a losing battle. Who could deny that sweet little face?

I found this upholstery webbing for 5o% off at my local fabric store too and thought it would pass for garland on my little rustic tree.

I love adding touches of greenery to my Christmas decorating. It’s so simple but makes everything cozy and festive.

Whitewashing the dresser was my first guest room makeover project and set the tone for the rest of the room. You can find the tutorial here.

The guest room is all ready for my daughter and son in law when they come to visit for the holidays!

From there, we’ll move into the breakfast nook. On Christmas day, we start off with mimosas in champagne flutes and brunch. We usually have scrambled eggs, bacon and one of my faves, banana pancakes, along with a treat or two. My three daughters usually cook and I clean. It works out perfectly. The food is placed on platters and set on the counter in a buffet style and then we sit at our little table to enjoy. We usually fit the five of us around the table but now there are six counting our new son in law. We may have to move to the dining room now! The tablescape is easy and can be done the night before so that the morning is a little less hectic. It also means we can get to opening our gifts much sooner!

We wait until after breakfast to open our gifts, but sometimes somebody can’t wait..thats usually me!

I loved adding a little colour and whimsy to the shelves with these lovely ornaments and felt ball garland.

The next room on our tour is the living room. This is where we spend most of our time. It’s small but I call it “cozy”

I found this toile fabric a few years ago at a garage sale and had used it as curtains in the past. But this year I made a number of pillow and bolster covers with it and I decorated around it. It’s a pinky red so I drew out the pink and found this pinky pompom throw to go with it. I love my pretty in pink living room!

I used natural elements to decorate with. As stated before it’s simple and easy but so festive with adding too much decor to my small space.

Thank you so much for joining me for Part 1 of the tour! Remember to stay tuned for Part 2 of my home tour when I share my master bedroom, dining room and more of the living room in the Canadian Bloggers Christmas HomeTour on Dec. 9th! The next person up on our tour is Rachel from The Porch Light Cottage.

Marci- Lemons to Lovelys

Jordan from JorDecor

Natalie from MyVintagePorch

Rachel from The Porch Light Cottage

Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone

Laura from Meaningful Spaces

Jennifer from Delightfully Noted

I’ll be linking up to The Nester

Canadian Bloggers Fall Tour 2016

6:00 am by kim 40 Comments

Welcome to our Canadian Bloggers Fall Home tour! I’m so excited to join in with nineteen other Canadian bloggers from across Canada to share our homes and fall decor. Each day a new group of bloggers will be sharing. Visit each home tour by following the links on the days at the bottom of this post!

If you’ve just come from visiting Jennifer of Rambling Renovators, welcome to my home!

I love fall for so many reasons and it’s my absolute favourite season, what’s not to love? Cooler sweater and boot weather, warm comfort food, the changing of the colour of the trees and pumpkins to name a few.

When embarking on fall decor I’m not averse to any colour, the sky’s the limit! Last year I used brown’s, and tans with a hint of orange, you can find last year’s home tour here. This year I was loving the colours of the charcoal and sage coloured pumpkins and thought I’d use more of a black/grey and white colour scheme.

I started off with charcoal and sage pumpkins and then found this gorgeous black and white floral fabric and sewed together these cushion covers. I added the black and white ticking cushion covers to complement them. Having a neutral backdrop makes it easy to add any colour you like to your decor.

You’ll notice lots of pumpkins! I added a mixture of faux pumpkins in plastic, paper and velvet, as well as some real classic sage and white ones along with my favourite little white baby boos. They were my main staple in decorating this year and I left out my usual cotton stems and branches. Sometimes you need to mix it up a bit, but they may come out yet, my decorating changes like the weather and I’m adding and removing things all the time!

I love any kind of eucalyptus during the holidays and this seeded eucalyptus is used all over my home right now. The beautiful soft green is in keeping with the sage and charcoal I used this year. You may also notice a bit of birch here and there. I basically have some form of birch hanging around all year long. The beautiful white and texture of it goes with everything and adds more of that natural element I like to bring into my home.

The mantel in my family room is full of pumpkins with sage faux greenery flanked by a couple of faux topiaries. My mantels change constantly and I’m mixing thing up all the time!

My living room looks out onto the breakfast nook. I have a large collection of vintage ironstone and I’ve placed some pitchers and an arrangement of platters, bowls and cake stands on the shelves. I display them and use them all the time. The rest of my ironstone is in the dining room and displayed throughout the house. I’ve simply added a few pumpkins out there along with a bit of eucalyptus on the table and thats it for fall decor. I change up the curtains out there in the fall into whatever I’m using to decorate with in the season. These curtains are a charcoal grey and white with a floral design. Whenever I have curtains that aren’t lined I place a pair of white curtains behind them to make them more opaque and appear heavier, which makes them appear a little more substantial.

I decorated my dining table with the same coloured pumpkins that I have in the living room. I’ve added some brass candlesticks to add some warmth and who doesn’t love candles on your tablescape? I had different coloured pumpkins on the mantel in here but later changed them out for all white. I told you I change my decor like the weather! I made this simple linen table runner last year and It’s my favourite, I’ve used nothing else since I made it! My table is set for a hearty fall soup with a thick french loaf…which I couldn’t keep my hands off which is why a third of it is missing 🙂

I couldn’t do a tablescape without adding a bit of fairlyights! As well as candlelight I love mixing in some delicate fairylights interwoven between branches and/or greenery. It just turns what may otherwise be natural and simple into something that’s festive and sparkly. No matter what you’ve set your table with they up the wow factor!

I switched up my mantel in the dining room and used some simple faux white pumpkins along with some baby boos on top of seeded eucalyptus with vases full of dried green hydrangeas. Simple and beautiful.

Thank you all for joining me and staying till the end! For more fall decor inspiration be sure to follow the links at the bottom of this post to join the other bloggers on this tour!

Monday

Northern Style Exposure
Clean and Scentsible
Amidst the Chaos
Heather In Heels

Tuesday

The Happy Housie
Satori Design for Living
Love Create Celebrate
A Pop of Pretty

Wednesday

PMQ for Two
Brooklyn Berry Designs
Rambling Renovators
Kim Power Style

Thursday

The DIY Mommy
Vin’yet Etc.
Home To Heather
Fresh Crush

Friday

Life is a Party
A Pretty Life
This Little Estate
Suburble

Canadian Bloggers Christmas Home Tour 2015

7:00 am by kim 34 Comments

Down Home Christmas

Merry Christmas everybody!

I’m so excited to be a part of The Canadian BloggersChristmas Home Tour 2015 along with eleven other talented ladies, Hosted by Christina from the thediymommy and Shannon from AKAdesign You can scroll to the bottom of this post for the entire lineup of these talented ladies.

For those of you who’ve come from The Creek Line House tour welcome to my home!

Generations of my family come from “The Island” also known as PEI. Whenever we think or talk about the Island we refer to it as “down home”

My decorating reflects what I envision when I think of down home at Christmas.

Keeping it simple and natural suits me and my little home perfectly!

I had so many decorations to add but kept removing them as I felt that simpler was better for my small cozy space.

I’ve used my go- to sugar pinecones which I love for their colour and texture, birch logs and seeded eucalyptus. I’ve kept my cotton stems out because it reminds me of snow on branches. Adding some plaid in the cushions brings in a bit of colour and pattern as well as that down home winter lodge feel.

The pom-pom garland I made last year was placed on my ladder and the pom-pom wreath moved to the mantel.

The boxwood wreaths are placed throughout and bring that lovely shot of green that goes with everything at Christmas.

Here I’ve placed one on a little vintage chair I found at a local thrift store, that sits beside the fireplace.

On the mantel I used these raw wood lanterns with little twinkle lights inside each one

and some faux greenery. I added this red berry wreath at one point to add a little colour and then removed it and replaced it with the pom-pom wreath.

My brass candleholders add a little old-world charm to the rustic down home feel.

I mixed things up here on the mantel by adding this large silver Christmas ball which was a nice contrast to all the natural elements.

Beautiful scented candles add so much ambiance to a space and this white pumpkin has been one of my favourites.

When friends and family drop by during the holidays, I usually set up one of two tables buffet style, It makes for easy and casual entertaining. With the small table in the breakfast area I continued with my natural theme throughout by using wooden candleholders, wood slices and burlap.

This lovely dollar store disco ball adds that little whimsical touch which helps to break up all the natural elements I’ve got going on. I love the way the light reflects all over the kitchen.

Nothing was immune to the boxwood wreaths including Mr. Moose!

I carried on with my simple, natural down home theme in the dining room…

The same natural theme was carried through with a linen table runner along with more plaid in the table napkins and cushions.

I loved the feel of this room, it really felt like you were in a down home winter lodge!

Thank you so much for the visit,

I hope you’ve enjoyed my down home Christmas house tour! I love to decorate my home and create an atmosphere where family and friends can gather and feel comfortable, welcomed and where we can all celebrate everything this season is all about..the birth of our saviour!

Now it’s time to take a tour of my Canadian blogging friends’ gorgeous homes. Come back each day to see a new set of home tours from Monday to Thursday this week.

Monday:
AKA Design
Northern Style Exposure
The DIY Mommy
Tuesday:
The Creek Line House
Restoration House
Wednesday:
Suburble
The Happy Housie
Nalle’s House
Thursday:
Clean and Scentsible
Fynes Designs
Rambling Renovators
A Pop of Pretty“

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