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‘Canadian Bloggers Home Tour’: Our House!

‘Canadian Bloggers Home Tour’: Our House!

19 Aug

This post was most recently updated on September 23rd, 2019

Hello my pretties!  Today is a fun day around here!  It’s ‘Day 2’ of the Canadian Bloggers Home Tours, and that means you’re invited to our home for a little tour.

If you’ve been around awhile, thanks for coming back today, and I promise you that I have some new things for you to see.  If you’re new here, welcome to A Pop of Pretty!  I’m a home decor blogger from Newfoundland, Canada – which is as far east as you can go in North America without stepping into the Atlantic Ocean.  It’s an incredibly beautiful and inspiring place to live. I’m a lifelong home decorating enthusiast, and my blog is all about finding ‘the pretty’ in an every day home.

Canadian Bloggers Home Tours- A Pop of Pretty / Home Tour Collage

Shannon from AKA Design + Life and Christina from The DIY Mommy have teamed up to host a mega-tour of 18 Canadian bloggers homes all this week. You can find the full list of Canadian bloggers involved in the project with links, by day, at the end of this post! You can also drop by Shannon and Christina’s blogs any time to get all the deets.

But first: A word about ‘home tours’: This is just a fancy word for “we’ve cleaned up for y’all”.  My home doesn’t always look this neat.  On last count, we had 3 kids (including twin boy pre-schoolers – need I say more?), 1 geriatric dog, and 1 puppy….which, if you do the math, means 30 sticky fingers + 8 muddy paws + a whole lot of craziness.  So I beg of you, don’t go on this home tour or any the other 17 Canadian bloggers and say, “Sheez whiz, my house NEVER looks like this!”  Because, frankly, mine doesn’t either!  It’s just a special day today because I was having guests.  Yes, silly, that’s you!

 

Canadian Bloggers Home Tour - Dining room

OK, enough with the disclaimers. On with the tour! Feel free to pin, share, tweet and like away!

You’ll quickly see that I’m coo-coo about blue.  I love blue because it’s soothing and it pairs well with neutrals and so many other colours. On our open concept main floor, we have a palette of neutrals with hits of blue and a little sparkle here and there with crystal chandeliers and metallic accessories.  Our Living Room / Piano Room is the only ‘fancy’ room in our home.  Oh, and by fancy, I mean it’s where I dump the big pile of laundry for folding that I never get back to, and where the kids wait for the school bus every morning.  Yup, fancy.

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Canadian bloggers home tour - a pop of pretty - living room decor piano

I’m a huge fan of wall art and gallery arrangements, and I’m always switching things up and around. This is how our entry hall looks right now.  I love a little whimsy here and there – and hello, I HAD to have that print of the eye glasses. Cute, yes? Both our 4-year old twin boys now wear glasses (and so does their Dad), so it’s a fun little tribute to them!

Canadian Bloggers Home Tour - A Pop of Pretty - Entryway

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Our entry hall opens up to our open concept kitchen which has white cabinets, grey walls, and a sea glass backsplash.  The kitchen island is where you’ll find us pretty much all the time, doing everything from homework to crafts to eating PB&J sandwiches – or, apparently grapes and french bread when we want to look tres chic ;-).

Canadian bloggers home tour - A pop of pretty kitchen

Canadian bloggers home tour - A pop of pretty kitchen 2

We don’t have a formal dining room; the dining area is adjacent to the kitchen island.  When we built this house, I thought separate dining rooms were extravagant and frou-frou.  Silly me. These days, I’m sold on the idea, perhaps because our one and only table is now a landing place for bills and crayons and hair bows and remote-control robots. Oh how I’d love a room where you can close doors, and keep it all pretty and guesty-like!

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Canadian Bloggers Home Tour Dining Room 2

Our Kitchen /Dining Area opens up to our Family Room where we watch TV and hang out – when we’re not at the kitchen island!.  The big ottoman in this room is usually covered in a traffic jam of Disney Cars and Hot Wheels. We use giant baskets (from Target) to store the kids’ things when my head is about to blow because I just can’t take the clutter anymore (<– oops!)

Canadian Bloggers Home Tour - a pop of pretty TV Room 1

A big leather sectional might not be the prettiest (it’s a beast), but it’s so practical and cozy with 3 kids and 2 dogs.

Canadian Bloggers Home Tour - a pop of pretty - tv room 2

Dark leather furniture can make a room feel cold. So I’ve softened things up with a soft-textured floral rug, and a chair covered in light seersucker fabric. The textured grasscloth-style wallpaper on one of the walls also helps to balance the leather.

Canadian Bloggers Home Tour - a pop of pretty - TV room 2

Canadian Bloggers Home Tour - a pop of pretty - zebra pillow

Canadian Bloggers Home Tour - a pop of pretty - TV room gallery wall

My fireplace mantel is in this room, and if you follow my blog, you probably know that it’s my decorating muse. I love to decorate it seasonally.  Here’s how it looked earlier this summer, inspired by the beach.  (If you’d like to see how it has looked throughout an entire year, you might like the post My Year in Mantel Decorating: 2013 {Mantel Decorating Ideas}.)

Canadian Bloggers Home Tour - a pop of pretty - summer mantel

In addition to the mantel, I also like to play around with bedding and textures in the master bedroom, depending on the season.  This is how it looked last Winter when I wallpapered that feature wall behind the bed.

Canadian Bloggers Home Tour - a pop of pretty - master bedroom

And, here’s how it looks for summer, with some hits of chartreuse and aqua.

Canadian Bloggers Home Tour - a pop of pretty - master bedroom summer

Canadian Bloggers Home Tour - soft blue velvet pillow

 

Canadian Bloggers Home Tour - a pop of pretty - master bedroom

Not everything in our home is neutral or blue, I promise!

I actually LOVE bright pops of colour, and you’ll find lots of it in our kids’ rooms and in our basement TV room/playroom.

We recently re-decorated our twin boys’ room when they moved to ‘big’ beds.   The room has  lots of bright green and aqua, including big fun horizontal wall stripes.  (See How to paint wall stripes).  If you’re interested in seeing more of their room makeover than what I’ve shown here, pop over to the full post here: Travel-Inspired Boys Bedroom (Shared Bedroom / Twins).

Canadian Bloggers Home Tour - a pop of pretty - twin boys room

 

Canadian Bloggers Home Tour - a pop of pretty - twin boys room

 

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Our basement family room was designed for our kids, so it’s very casual and has lots of fun pops of colour.

Basement decorating ideas

 

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red ceramic gourd lamp

There’s more rooms to show you, but perhaps I’ll save that for another time.  After all, you need to save some time to visit the other Canadian bloggers scheduled for today…the awesome Rambling Renovators, Craftberrry Bush and Elliven Studio (just click the links below under ‘Tuesday’)!  I hope you enjoyed the tour!

If you’re new here, I’d love to see you again!  You can follow me on Facebook or Instagram, or sign up to receive notification of my blog posts by e-mail.

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Be sure to stop by these fabulous blogger home tours all week long!  Here’s the schedule for the entire week:

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Monday

AKA Design

The DIY Mommy

Northern Style Exposure

Echoes of Laughter

Tuesday

Pop of Pretty

Rambling Renovators

Craftberry Bush

Elliven Studio

Wednesday

First Time Fancy

So Much Better With Age

The Creek Line House

The Sweetest Digs

Thursday

Clean and Scentsible

The Happy Housie

Just Beachy

Dans le Townhouse

Friday

The Uncommon Law

This Little Estate

Until next time,

Kerri

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By Kerri, August 19, 2014 Filed Under: Home Tours, Room by Room: Renovations & Inspiration

About Kerri

Kerri Roche is the owner, editor and voice behind A Pop of Pretty, a Canadian home decorating blog, where she shares her love of modern coastal and cottage home decorating style, from beautiful Newfoundland, on Canada's east coast. Home decorating has always been in her blood, even while earning a Marketing degree and MBA, and working in strategy and planning in a busy ad agency for over a decade. She aims to inspire other style seeking home lovers to decorate their own homes with confidence, by sharing home decorating ideas, shopping tips, and DIY tutorials from her own suburban home and lakeside cottage - all l while juggling the schedules of a world travelling husband, 3 busy and energetic kids (including twins), and a scrappy little Havanese named Finnigan.

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Comments

  1. Tim says

    September 8, 2014 at 5:40 pm

    Love the glasses picture. it’s awesome!

  2. Denise says

    September 7, 2014 at 10:51 am

    Kerri,
    The pics of the house are just stunning! You never cease to amaze me.

  3. Tisha Clapp says

    August 22, 2014 at 7:07 pm

    I love your home – it is so beautiful, yet comfortable and lived in! I’m with you on the formal dining room – I’m appreciating formal spaces more for their hallowed quality. Still you’ve done amazing things with your open plan – I LOVE the light fixtures! So excited to find you – I’ll be pinning!!!

    • Kerri says

      August 28, 2014 at 1:20 pm

      Aww, thanks Tisha! Please come back again ~ Kerri

  4. Shauna says

    August 22, 2014 at 7:00 pm

    Love all the layers and personality- gorgeous!

    • Kerri says

      August 28, 2014 at 1:19 pm

      Thanks so much Shauna!

  5. Shari says

    August 22, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    This is my first time visiting your blog and let me just say “I love your decorating style”. So fresh and inviting. I am totally in love with your living room rug. Please let me know where you got it. The little pops of color in each room is wonderful. Thanks for sharing. Its been inspiring!

    • Kerri says

      August 28, 2014 at 1:22 pm

      Thanks so much Shari for your sweet comments! I’m assuming maybe you meant the rug in the family room, as the living room rug is just a cream shag. But in any case, they were both from Home Depot! Hope that helps ~Kerri

  6. Carrie Perrins says

    August 21, 2014 at 4:02 am

    HI. You have a beautiful home! May I ask where you got your barstool cushions that tie onto the chair?? They are adorable. I have three barstools in my kitchen and am in the search for some. I love the color throughout your home. I am trying really hard to add my color to mine.
    Thanks for the inspiration.
    Carrie

    • Kerri says

      August 21, 2014 at 1:21 pm

      Thanks so much Carrie! They’re from Pier 1 Imports! ~Kerri

  7. Towe says

    August 20, 2014 at 12:59 pm

    Totally in love and amazed by your blog. My first visit today and I feel so inspired. I had a blog… but we’re on a break. The blog and I need some air to breathe, now I focus on instagram and I’ve become lazy but I will be back blogging soon again. I love all the arts and crafts you post on your blog and the pictures of your beautiful home and adorable kids. Looking forward to explore more. Have a nice day! towe /from Sweden

    • Kerri says

      August 20, 2014 at 1:35 pm

      Thanks so much Towe (from Sweden 😉 ) for your sweet comments! I take a break from blogging now and again too. Instagram definitely makes it easy. Hope you’ll be back again. ~Kerri

  8. ruthie says

    August 20, 2014 at 12:14 am

    I don’t usually like browns but your home us stunning! love the warmth and the use of the soft blue.

    • Kerri says

      August 20, 2014 at 10:52 am

      Thanks Ruthie!

  9. Judi James says

    August 19, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    I love everything about your home, it is so beautiful!
    As a Canadian myself, it is awesome to see a “Canadian Home Tour”.

    • Kerri says

      August 19, 2014 at 11:21 pm

      Thanks so much Judi!

  10. Krista @ the happy housie says

    August 19, 2014 at 2:28 pm

    Your home is so beautiful Kerri!! I love how warm and bright it is with soft hits of color – and fun bright colours in the children’s spaces. So many lovely accessories and great styling!! So fun to be on this tour with you- pinning and sharing your home tour and following you across the board!! Have a great day:)

    • Kerri says

      August 19, 2014 at 2:31 pm

      Thanks so much Krista for the sweet comment! Looking forward to visiting your tour too! ~Kerri

  11. chris says

    August 19, 2014 at 1:33 pm

    Beautiful!!

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