Amor Milagre Interior Design and Romantic Sitting Room Renovation
Our Rose Cottage sitting room and library renovations are finishing up. As my atelier is now all set up again, all orders will ship quickly as usual. I’ll be painting up new seasonal artwork for our home, and the art prints and stationery for these paintings will be in my shop once finished. We’re loving our rooms and happy to have the new FSC Certified flooring throughout the house as it decreases dust and allergies. It also looks beautiful and is wonderful for dancing. More is coming up. We wish you a lovely Autumn!
New stationery sets will release this September.
The before/after design reveals for our room renovations from the past four years will be posted here over the winter. The house really feels like ours now. Soon, there will be some new reindeer, roses, and landscapes on these plum walls.
A story as delicious as a good dinner… In my original plans for my company, I designed Café Amor Milagre. The idea is a plant-based, vegan, organic, European peasant-style, garden-fresh café to accompany my shop. As my store is online, my upcoming cookbooks will teach how to bring our kitchen to yours with simply delicious recipes. We adore this custom home café that we have nearly finished building at our Rose Cottage. I’ll keep my original company plans, perhaps to open up later on down the road. The world can really use more of this type of dining. We never eat out, so we made our own restaurant at home, growing plants in the garden for our daily food.
I love to lounge by our grand new windows that look onto the morning’s dewy flowers and herbs, write a new story, share a funny teatime with my family, and dream in the evening sconce lamplight. Simple peaceful pleasures build up a beautiful life…and story. I’ve written so many books this summer, and every day there are three more. Now, I just have to catch up on printing them all so you can enjoy them, too! I’m out of ink and journals, and my poor hand needs a break. But then, oh!
I will publish more treasury compilation-style books going forward as printing costs are high. My shop uses sustainable materials, which do cost more for me, but the preservation of nature is vital. In general, the cost of everything now is quite high. I design my products to be as affordable as possible. I don’t believe that high prices elevate works of art. I believe in equality. In making affordable collections, everyone is invited. With treasury books, my readers can enjoy many stories within one book. Quick, connected readers will really appreciate this type of book. Reread these new classics over again. This will be the new format for some of the children’s book collections and the Self-Health Novelettes. I do have some books that I’ll release on their own as they have specific illustration designs that need a certain book shape or size. Some novels, like The Love Letter Diaries, already contain four seasonal books within one volume. I will keep that style for the second year/volume of that series.
As our renovations wind down, I will release many new artwork and stationery pieces and collections. If only the computers could keep up with my brain, I’d be all caught up. That is my process though…true thought and handmade creative works, inspired by nature. Cherish the real and natural you.
Whole Foods Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Kitchen
Whole Foods Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Kitchen
Children’s meals are easy to assemble and beautiful with whole foods, such as these nuts. I love how the walnuts look like owls. The senses relish in the shapes, scents, textures, flavours, and colours of natural plant foods. Let children design their own lunch and flavour combinations. Little chefs always come up with something we haven’t tried yet!
Design Tip for A Calming Space: If you group ‘like’ items, or items that you use together, on a tray then the visual clutter goes away and you have a sensually pleasing atmosphere. Store unneeded items out of sight. Have a focal point, and let it be useful. Try it in any room. Do you feel more relaxed?
What is a soup? Easy. Add fresh vegetables to a pot, add some spices, add water. Cook. Enjoy! (My cookbooks include a few more details, but try it!) Last evening, I wrote a story near a simmering tomato fennel soup. Our custom kitchen design was intended for just this moment. For this one, I will puree it. For our regular weekly recipe, we don’t. These simply nourishing soups are versatile and help sustain your week. Delicious recipes, such as these, are featured in my upcoming vegan, organic, sugar-free cookbook. Enjoy soup every day of the year to boost health and relax, knowing that you always have a good dinner waiting for you!
Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation. A New Kitchen-Warming Gift from my husband! This pot has locking safety handles and a strainer lid option. It’s just the right size for most of our recipes, but it uses more storage space with the handles. Overall it’s a great green design, but next time remove the click handle sound. We understand how to use it. Cooking designs can be made much quieter.
I love gentle rain showers and slow cooks. If a recipe is going to take a while, it can do it on its own. We’re quite busy, so minimal steps and a house filled with a gorgeous subtle scent is my design. The buzzing machines that I do not love do not live in our kitchen. They live on the other side of the door, in the pantry. We also made sure to research the quietest ones. The pantry, mudroom, and a full bath/laundry room are our next renovation projects to finish this fall/winter. Yes, every inch of the house and gardens… Sensitive design considers your whole health and how the senses work. I design to keep and boost energy, not zap it away. Even our clocks don’t tick, and why should they? Check back to see how we have done this to our entire Rose Cottage.
I’m happy that we are finishing up our last rooms. We deserve a break to watch the flowers grow and have little dates in our cosy café. Last night, we had a half-date half-measuring party. Just us two…and I do love it when my husband says…”I have a design question for you.” Get out the pencil and paper…let’s figure it out. Can you tell that we like a bit of a puzzle?
If your children need something to do this weekend, consider a little scavenger hunt with clues on notepaper leading to a surprise..or even just to breakfast! Our family loves to do things like this. The mind loves to learn and be useful. Recipes are a versatile way to keep your senses moving. Growing and preparing organic food is a wonderful puzzle to practice.
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design, New Stove Hood with Lavender Trug and Soft Sconce Lighting
August brings a new kitchen. What a lovely gift! We are fiddle-faddling with our favourite pancake flippers and arranging precious teacups in custom-fit drawers, newly handmade by my talented husband. We measured everything and designed special areas for each collection of kitchen items. The flow is important to get right. Ergonomics are vital to prevent pain. How splendid to unpack decades of patience into a beautiful, clean space! Everything has a home, and we can easily use everything now. This room used to be two, with walls missing and old floors, and the upcoming design reveals will show how much work it took to bring this calming, soft kitchen to life. Our Rose Cottage feels healthier every day.
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design. Linen & Lavender are natural and calming.Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design. We love summer days of watermelon and mint!Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design. New space leaves room for dancing. Ironing dresses and blouses by the garden door in the evening is cool and crickety.
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design. All ready for garden picnics with the teddy bear family!
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design. We have little ironing demonstrations (from afar) by the Queen Anne’s Lace flowers. This door opens out to one of our kitchen gardens, the stone-lined herb patch. How nice it is to make things nice! (*Until adding heat to fabrics stops conjuring up clouds of toxic pollution, this is not a pleasure. It can only be an occasional thing to do with proper ventilation and a mask. The fabrics, iron-steamer-dryer, detergent and packaging all need to be safe and healthy to use. Remove the chemical coatings! The amount of toxins in a fabric is obvious by the instant headache and difficulty breathing. Prevent illness and redesign the world to be a healthy life cycle. Read more here.)
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design. Bringing in the kitchen rugs and lamps today! All is ready…just waiting on the drawer fronts, which are almost finished! Just need a bit of sanding and painting. Design reveals are coming up this Autumn.
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design. Summer days are going by quickly. Little crows love to make echoes into the tarped sitting room, where rows of tiles are being removed. The new flooring goes in there next week!
We hope you are enjoying your summer lightning bugs and petals! Love, ~ Amor Milagre
A cooler week reminds me of my favourites: cosy sweaters, blankets, sitting with the garden, and the little romantic things we love. Here are three ideas to try:
Lasting Impression: When we were first dating, I gave my husband a little card with a unique pink lipstick kiss on it as a valentine. He has kept the card in his wallet ever since…it’s been about a decade. (My Kiss stationery is based on that valentine.)
Kind Gestures: Last night, I looked out of the window and saw my husband with a handful of weeds on his way to the compost area of the garden. Clearing a pathway, doing laundry or dishes, and little helpful things are very sweet gestures that show you care. Giving your beloved the gift of some down time is wonderful!
Little Offerings: Hugs, massages, gentle touches, a delicious lunch, a cup of favourite tea, and loving words are simple, yet impactful, ways to say ‘I adore you.’ We also write out love notes on the bottom of market shopping lists, on corners of the To Do chalkboard, and on my Ethereal Romance Notecards. It is lovely to find an ‘I love you’ at the breakfast table.
Romantic, cosy choices for our home are fun to design. This is a week of new floors and wall painting for two living spaces and the last hook ups for the new kitchen. It will be wallpaper time soon!
Coming in Autumn: Rose Cottage Renovation Home & Garden Design Reveals
Amor Milagre Minis #20 Watercolour Paintings Golden & Earthen Original Art
The Mini Watercolour Paintings are trickling into the shop. Snap yours up today!
Designing the garden to be as soft, natural, and perennial as the interior is something that I love to do. Outside, we have organic vegetable gardens, cottage flower mazes, and wildflower meadow borders. It’s as easy as painting with plants. Choose your colours, textures, seasons, and heights. Replace lawns with perennial flowering plants. Creeping thyme is a favourite bridge for plant gaps, and the pollinators love their dusty lilac flowers as much as we love to use it for cooking. Plant your desired seeds and enjoy all of their stages. Inside, cosy up by the window on a rainy day and sketch the blooms of the week. Go out for a dewdrop stroll to explore watery worlds. Arrange your teacups and dishes on wide heavy cream shelves, and lay down charcoal cacao floors to connect the inside to the garden. Your flowers and curtains can reflect similar colours and patterns. This encourages humanity to feel more a part of nature. By connecting indoor and outdoor spaces with sensitive design, one finds themselves going out more naturally to benefit from the air, blooms, and roots. Fawns love to wander in the meadows, too.
Meditate inclusivity, harmony, and peace. Love, ~Amor Milagre
