WDK MEMORIAL DAY SALES PICKS 2021

It’s that time of the year! Spring has sprung and the sales are on. If you have been waiting for a key furniture piece for the playroom or a special bed for a kids room, now is a great time to bring that special item into your homes. Some of our favourite retailers are offering discounts, so today we’ve put together our top picks from our projects and home to share with you.

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Serena & Lily

Serena & Lily is a retailer who we have loved for quality items for years. From our favourite baskets to hide kids toys in kids’ rooms to the bean bag chairs from some of our playroom projects, this weekend they are offering 20% off everything!

McGee & Co

I have loved watching Studio McGee grow as much as the next person, and have had this coffee table in our home with kids for years! I love the round shape for our family of five and playing family games on it! You can also shop the playroom rug from our media room turned playroom project. Everything is 20% off this weekend!

Wayfair

Wayfair has a broad range of home decor and kids furniture and has selected items from our projects and home that are on sale. Here are our picks!

ALL OF THE PAINT COLOURS FROM OUR PROJECTS!

By far, our most asked question is, “what paint colour did you use” in that kids room? No surprise, paint can be tricky!! From the direction the light comes into the room to basement rooms with no natural light, paint is the backdrop for nearly every room you enter.

While it is nearly impossible to tell what exact paint colour was used on quick glance on screen, I thought it would be handy to have a place you can come to for our paint resources; the ones we love and have actually used across our projects.

From the perfect white to a neutral grey and the prettiest pink on a ceiling, here are the colours we’ve used in the nurseries, kids rooms, family spaces and playroom projects you know us for.

BM = Benjamin Moore

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MODERN PLAYROOM

MAY MONTHLY FAVOURITES

KASE’S PLAYROOM PROJECT

THE MAY EDIT: FAVOURITE PICKS OF THE MONTH

April showers have definitely delivered the May flowers and walking around the neighbourhood with the kids as the weather warms up is beyond delightful. As we are spending more time outdoors, I wanted to include some of our favourite things for the backyard in this month’s edit and I am dreaming of a few of these gorgeous swing chairs for reading all summer long.

The playhouse below is ready for a similar playhouse makeover to the one we did a few years ago and I assure you it was one of our favourite backyard toys ever! You’ll recognize this slide from our modern basement project and I love that the simple bunk bed converts to two twin beds for different stages of your child’s development!

KIDS BATHROOM: WHERE WE ARE STARTING AND THE PLAN

Have you been following our bathroom renovation on Instagram? The kids bathroom in our rental house started out as a completely non-functional space for our family with three kids but we have a plan and I’m sharing it with you below.

First, let’s start with some gorgeous bathroom inspiration that I used for this project!

Source: Eye for Pretty

Now, let’s take a step back and see where we started. This is the bathroom when we rented the house.

It really started out as such a non-functional space and likely the only reason that our family was lucky enough to rent this house; I said that as part of the rental, I would update the bathrooms! There was a decent amount of space here, but I truly have no idea how the previous owners functioned with it.

Let me break down the issues:

• the door opens into the bathtub

• the toilet and bathtub are brown!

• the vanity is far too large for the space

• the glass doors on the bathtub close off the space

• the entry door opens into a person standing at the vanity, or getting out of the tub!

• the tile is dirty and would be great to replace

Over the past week, I’ve been sharing the step-by-step process on Instagram stories, so let me update you in here in case you’ve missed out.

The entry door has been removed, the glass doors to the shower have been removed, the vanity and mirrors have been removed (photo on left) and the tile has been stripped out!

It’s amazing to see how far we’ve come already! I feel like you can actually see the space properly now and I can’t wait to start getting some of the new pieces in place.

So, what’s the plan? Well, one thing I won’t do in a rental is remove a bathtub (unless doing it with the owner) for fear of water damage. In this case, the tub is actually in pretty good shape and we will be having it refinished (a VERY cost effective way to refresh a tub). New tile will replace the old (our biggest cost) and yes, we will be replacing the brown toilet with a white one!

After perusing bathrooms online, I decided to really keep the colours simple and this was truly determined to find a very low cost tile for the floor and walls. Since using a professional to tile the bathroom would be our highest cost, I wanted to keep the cost of the actual tile to a minimum, as this is a rental after all.

You can imagine that white was a clear choice, and yes, the tub and walls will be white but I wanted to add something playful since this is the kids’ main bathroom and so we went for a bold patterned tile in black and white! I chose to add warmth through the vanity and you can see how the simple colours of black, white and wood go together in the board below.

1.// Boho shower curtain; 2.// Warm wood vanity; 3.// Black rim mirror; 4.// House tissue box; 5.// Black towel rail; 6.// Wood bath bar; 7.// Patterned floor tile; 8.// White subway tile; 9.// Light wood frames; 10.// Comb art print; 11.// Hairpin art print.

FREE PRINTABLE: EARTH DAY!

Did you know that Earth Day is next week, Thursday April 22nd? We love to celebrate Earth Day with our kids and wanted to offer a fun way for you to acknowledge the day too! We usually pull out some of our favourite books about our beautiful earth, talk about how we can take care of it and this year, together with Lana from Lana’s Shop (go check out her gorgeous watercolour illustrations!), we’ve created a word search for you & your kids to enjoy! Get the free printable below.

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