Shed Building Plans

Welcome to a new feature on my blog! Each week from October through February I will be sharing a different home tour, I don't know about you but I love open houses!!



This week's tour is a fall tour from Jeanie at Create & Babble - enjoy!

Welcome to my little 1930s bungalow!   This post includes all the work I've done on the place up to the end of this year.  

Come on in, enjoy a cup of coffee and I'll show you around!

Here is my new front facade complete with diy shutters, fresh aqua paint and new landscaping.

My kitchen, where to begin??  When I moved in, it needed cabinets, counters and appliances.  I couldn't live with it the way it was, so the kitchen reno kicked off on the week after moving day.  I bought stock cabinets and counters to save money and did a galley plan.  I brought my sideboard into the kitchen for additional storage and counter space and painted it with a homemade paint that gives a chalk like finish.

Sometimes you just need to sit back and take score of how far you've come.


As I was scrolling through my hundreds of photos this morning, I thought it would be fun to do a post with photos to show the huge progress I've made on my house renovation project.  I've used the photos from the 2010 Realtor's ad as the before shots and recent photos to show how it looks now.


I hope you enjoy this tour as much as I did!  It was so nice to document my renovation journey all in one post!

Welcome to Ashcroft Cottage!  My house has changed so much in 2014.  I've finally found my style and embraced country cottage/farmhouse in a big way.   I even named my house (I have an enormous 100 year old green ash in my front yard).  Come on in and have a look.

Bloggers across Canada are participating in this blog series by acting as tourists in their own towns.

You'll get a tour through Canada - from sleepy towns to hot spots with insider scoops on where to go and what to do! For my American readers, this is a great year to travel to Canada with the exchange rate so hugely in your favour.

 I'll be sharing links to the series on my Facebook page, so be sure to pop in there to catch up on all the cool places you can visit - click HERE to like my Facebook page.

Every year when I take stock of my seemingly never-ending to do list on the house, I think I'm close to finishing the work. This year I KNOW I'm close!! I got so many of the little niggling things completed and took a big whack at a few of the larger things too!

My goal this year was to create a larger opening between the living and dining rooms but a leaky front entry ceiling took precedence and the living/dining room opening will have to wait...

Here is my new front entry complete with a new front door and storm door!