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we are couch potatoes

When gathering inspiration for our living room in The Little Barn, my site of choice was Pinterest. It’s hard to believe that a few weeks ago, I didn’t even know what a Pin was. Now I’m all up in Pinterest’s biz, pinning here, creating boards there, and reposting on Hello, Scarlett like mad. I can’t help it. The site is so pin-teresting! It’s pin-terrific!

We are not really couch potatoes. The title is the best one that I could come up with for a post on living rooms. Because that’s where a couch is located, right? You get the pin-ture. (That one didn’t really work. It was pint-rifying.)

Alright, I had better stop with my creation of ‘pin’ words and start with my showcase of photos. So without further ado, here are my favourite living room ideas. The theme is Modern Rustic Industrial.

(via Pinterest)

I’d love it if you left your thoughts below!

Emory

by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 09/23/2014 • Permalink

Posted in new home

Tagged barn, blueprints, canada, construction, contractor, couch, home, house building, house plans, ikea, lake, laundry room, little green, living room, metal roof, new home, pinterest, reclaimed house, roof, saskatchewan, tiny home, tiny house, wood

Posted by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 09/23/2014

https://helloscarlettblog.com/2014/09/23/we-are-couch-potatoes/

ptp on instagram

It’s officially Friday! You know what that means, right? It means that I have gone a week without discussing my new store, so today I am going to hit you with another post! Ok, so maybe you didn’t know what that meant.

I’ve already begun to promote Potomac Trading Post, Ltd. on my personal Instagram account. With over 400 followers, about 30 of them were nice enough to add PTP to their accounts, too. Then one day earlier this week, I had logged onto Instagram and to my surprise I had gained over 40 followers within a span of a few hours. My initial reaction was that my account had been spammed or hacked. Then I noticed that I was tagged in someone’s photo. It turns out that a local IG account heard about my store, and began promoting it on their page!

I was so happy and felt so honoured to have this great support from my city and its residents. Saskatoon is growing more and more artsy every year. I feel that if I’m going to be starting up a store like Potomac Trading Post, Ltd., with its antique, handmade, collectible, and wearable items, this is the city to do it in. It is the largest in our province, and yet it is still a small city by most standards. I hope that the store will become a big fish in a little pond. That way, when it’s about to burst out of its surroundings, I can take it to the lake or the ocean and expand it there. In the meantime, baby steps.

These are some of the photos that can be found on the Instagram account for the store. Please add PTP if you would like to support a small business, and have yet another line of communication to the girl behind it all. Me.

Emory

by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 09/19/2014 • Permalink

Posted in Potomac Trading Post

Tagged america, antique, ashtray, canada, chief, clothing, crates, fashion, friday, handmade, indian, instagram, lantern, moccasins, Potomac Trading Post, prairie, saskatchewan, saskatoon, social media, store, style, tgif, usa, vintage, wood, worldwide

Posted by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 09/19/2014

https://helloscarlettblog.com/2014/09/19/ptp-on-instagram/

close the laundry door and tiptoe across the floor

(Image via Pinterest)

Oh, Pinterest, you slay me. You are the cause of my late nights, and the inspiration behind my latest endeavours. I turn to you for warmth and comfort, and you never cease to lift me up when I am down. I hope that our relationship will continue to grow, our bond deepen, and that you will never leave me. I think that I love you. Does anyone else feel this way?

(Image via UO)

I never gave much thought a Laundry Room before planning The Little Barn. In fact, our last one consisted of an old washing machine in the middle of our bathroom, sans a dryer. However, our new Laundry Room is quickly become the most diverse and important space of our new home. Isn’t that funny? This room has to function as a Mud Room, Office, Closet, Dog Room, Greenhouse, and Laundry Room, in addition to having access to the crawlspace beneath our home. Tall order. The size? 11′ x 9’10”. Can we do it? Yes we can!

Here are my reigning finds on Pinterest that are making me excited to create (rather than cower away from) this multi-functional space. I call the style primitive-meets-farmhouse-modern.

(Image via Pinterest)

Too much? (Image via Pinterest)

Emory

by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 09/10/2014 • Permalink

Posted in new home

Tagged barn, blog, blue prints, canada, cleobella, construction, contractor, elmira, greenhouse, home, house building, house plans, lake, laundry room, little green, metal roof, mud room, new home, pinterest, reclaimed house, roof, saskatchewan, smeg, tiny home, tiny house, uo, urban outfitters, wood

Posted by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 09/10/2014

https://helloscarlettblog.com/2014/09/10/close-the-laundry-door-and-tiptoe-across-the-floor/

come on home and turn me on

During our last Edmonton trip, my husband and I ended up buying the majority of our lighting for The Little Barn. You must be thinking, ‘Whaaaaaaat? That must have cost hundreds, and possibly even thousands of dollars!’ Heck no, it didn’t. Would you like to know why? Well I have one word for you, IKEA. After purchasing three lights for our kitchen, one for our bathroom, two for our mudroom, and three for both of our bedrooms, our total bill was approximately $250. Success.

Here is a preview of our new lighting.

FOTO $19.99 (for our kitchen, bathroom, and bedrooms – image via Pinterest)

OTTAVA $59.99 (for our mudroom – image via Pinterest)

RANARP $19.99 (for our bedroom – image via Pinterest)

There’s only one thing left to say, and that is, IKEA you are a Godsend.

Emory

by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 08/26/2014 • Permalink

Posted in new home

Tagged adam pally, barn, blueprints, canada, conan, construction, contractor, elmira, foto, fridge, greenhouse, heartland, home, house building, house plans, ikea, lake, little green, metal roof, new home, ottava, ranarp, reclaimed house, roof, saskatchewan, tiny home, tiny house, wood

Posted by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 08/26/2014

https://helloscarlettblog.com/2014/08/26/come-on-home-turn-me-on/

blueprints to my heart

Can you believe that I have been discussing The Little Barn for over two months now, and I have yet to show you the blueprints? I’ve shown you guys our lot, our design ideas, our windows, our exterior materials, our appliances, and more recently, our spare bedroom inspiration, but nothing on our finished plans! #Whoops #ItSlippedMyMind

What began as my husband and I drawing up our visions of a home that suited our current needs, and hopefully those going into the near future as well, then turned into our contractor modifying the design ever so slightly on his computer, to finally, an architect adding his part with professionally drawn blueprints. While the scanned pictures that you will see today pale in comparison to our own stunning copies, I hope that it will do the trick in giving you further insight into the making of our new home.

I’ve stared at these prints so many times that they no longer seem surreal. Yet, I will never forget the first time that they were physically handed to us. We were standing in our contractor’s driveway, in 30°C weather, and using his scalding black SUV as a tabletop. I couldn’t have been more thrilled about seeing our future home from so many different angles, and with such precise measurements and detail. It could have been the heatstroke, but I swear that up until that point, nothing had made me more happy in our real estate trials thus far than these long white sheets of paper with scribbles all over them. (Literally scribbles. Our contractor proceeded to scribble all over them.)

Oh, house building. How we thrive on such small successes.

Emory

by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 08/21/2014 • Permalink

Posted in new home

Tagged barn, blueprints, canada, construction, contractor, elmira, fridge, greenhouse, heartland, home, house building, house plans, lake, little green, metal roof, new home, reclaimed house, roof, saskatchewan, tiny home, tiny house, wood

Posted by Hello, Scarlett Blog on 08/21/2014

https://helloscarlettblog.com/2014/08/21/blueprints-to-my-heart/

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