Jillian Robinson was feeling quite confident about the letter she’d written to attach to her bid for a home in Halifax’s red-hot housing market. She chronicled her family of three’s life—an adorable toddler coming up fast on two years old; an American ex-NBA player dad working to turn around the local high school’s basketball record […]
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Everything has a place and a purpose in this Waverley apartment
R achael Shrum has an organized mind but she’s quick to point out that she’s not really a tidy person. Sitting on her massive forest green couch in the morning sun she says, matter-of-factly, “I just leave stuff around.” You wouldn’t know it, looking around the tucked-away second floor, two-bedroom apartment she affectionately calls the […]
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Holy Roller Vintage’s Bridget VanWart on how to thrift like a pro
“S uccessful thrifting can, at its essence, be boiled down to perseverance, some basic knowledge and pure luck,” says Bridget VanWart, founder of and finder behind Holy Roller Vintage—a furniture and accessories seller that’s online home is Instagram. In just 10 months, she’s taken her obsession with home decor, deal hunting and bringing vintage pieces […]
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That sinking feeling—the serenity of a clean kitchen
Idon’t know who needs to hear this, but go clean your kitchen sink. Wash all the dishes, dry them, put them away and think of the sink itself as the last dish. Give that thing the scrubbing of its lifetime. Next—stay with me on this—dry that sink. With any old cloth, towel or rag you […]