Gutter Cleaning – Spring Home Maintenance

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The southern west coast of British Columbia is well known for it’s significant rainfall amounts each year. Typically, rainfall amounts are at their highest from October to March/April. This means that September and April are the ideal months to clean your gutters. Read more

Top 5 Tips for Spring Lawn Care

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Spring is such a promising time of year, with so much colour returning to the land.  Flowers are blossoming, speckling the landscape with pops of colour! Our lawns are also returning to life, and the sound of lawn mowers is present in many neighbourhoods on the weekend. Read more

April Home Maintenance

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April brings showers, which reinforces that nicer weather is on it’s way with May flowers. April is a time to embrace the {slightly} warmer weather, and prepare your home for summer.  Read more

Spring Home Decor

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Around here, our favourite seasons are Spring and Fall! Why? Home Show season of course! But also because these seasons mark a significant change in what it looks like outside, and a sign of things to come.  Read more

March Home Maintenance

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SPRING IS HERE! March 20th officially marks the beginning of Spring with the equinox, and we’re happy to see it! The new season brings a sense of change in the air, and you can feel that summer is hot on its heels. Read more

Prepare to Sell Your Home This Spring

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Can you feel it in the air? Spring Equinox is just around the corner – March 20! – and spring fever is setting in. Flowers are starting to pop up in gardens, the days are getting {a bit} warmer and sunnier, we’re getting the urge to clean up the cobwebs, and dreaming of warm days spent outside. Read more

Clean Greasy Range Hood

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If you’ve been following along with our monthly maintenance schedule, you’ll notice we recommend to clean your range hood filter monthly. You may not need to clean it as often, depending on how much greasy cooking you do. When you do decide to clean it, where do you begin? Read more

February Home Maintenance

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For those of us on the west coast, February marks the transition into spring, even though we know we’ll likely get another cold snap before the season is truly here. Alberta’s groundhog, Balzac Billy, declared an early spring for Canada’s western provinces for 2016! Read more

Family Organization Starts Here

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If you are like most families, you have a lot going on and a lot to keep track of. We’ve all had that moment when you are running late for an appointment you forgot about and suddenly your keys aren’t where they usually are. Then while you frantically look for them, you spill something or knock something over, which in turn makes you even later. Do you dream of the day where this doesn’t happen to you? So do we! Read more

Plan for Spring Gardening Now

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January is the perfect time to plan your garden for the coming spring and summer. All the festivity of the last few months has passed, leaving  a bit of a void. Paired with the dreary weather, it’s easy to get weighed down by the time of year. Instead, set your mind to planning for a bountiful spring and summer garden!  Read more