Amor Milagre Cosy New Year Home Tidy Up at Rose Cottage
Time for a good old fashioned post-holiday tidy up. The new board games are tucked into the reorganised game closet. Ornaments are paired down to the snowy-wintry little guys. Bags and boxes are stowed for next year’s gifts. Dates and names are stamped into new books. The Q2 homeschool portfolio is all sorted. The new doll is settling into the nursery and exploring the house. Anything that didn’t work out for us last year is gone- POOF! We’re vowing to finish old projects before starting new ones. Health is always our main focus, so wish us luck in finding a good doctor. In the meantime, I’m cooking up our weekly veg soup and writing out some fun adventure notes for us to try this winter. We celebrate each season as it comes. There is always something to savour today. Happy New Year! Love, ~ Amor Milagre
Amor Milagre Cosy New Year Rose Cottage Tidy Up, Fresh Bread and Veggie Soup scent our kitchen.
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Welcome! Cosy up with a warm drink as I meander down the past decade of home renovations and introduce you to my company, Amor Milagre. A Gentle Life Collection is full of empowering, sweet, unique, and loving books, artwork, stationery, woodworking, design, and gifts for all ages. I am an artist, author, designer, gardener, and homeschool mother. This first video, organized from spring to winter, is an overview of all of the lovely organic living we do. I hope you enjoy it, and I’ll post again on my new youtube channel soon!
We just decorated our tree tonight. Crackers are ready, snow is falling, and we’re ready to put out the carrots and gingerbreads!
Amor Milagre Sitting Room Hearth Renovation Interior Design, Winter Holiday Decor- I moved the tree down so as not to over-clutter the fireplace, which happens when elves are excited!
Amor Milagre Hallway Renovation. The last thing to change out was the old ceiling light. Here is a new flower-shaped glower.
After renovating every second and every inch of our Rose Cottage, we are now getting to the last of the last details to finish, such as the light in the bedroom hallway. It feels good to be unwinding from all the effort of postitive change.
Hallway-Before Reno just moved in.
Here is the hallway as it was when we moved in. We had to replace everything and refresh the house as it was very very dusty and pet danderish. Bland. Boring. Kinda spooky.
Changes Seen Below: We painted the walls a cheerful airy light cream to reflect light from bedroom windows, removed the doors and added a full wall across the back wall, refitted the linen closet, and replaced the yucky old green carpet with lovely new hardwood flooring, FSC with radiant heating underneath, so walking this way is warm and cosy. No runner rug is needed. It’s easy to clean now. We keep those allergens away. A rug here would trip us up, too. It’s a much-walked area. We moved the nursery bathroom door and gutted it, combining that space with two closets to make a beautiful full bathroom. In many rooms, we smoothed the ceiling, but left the original in here. We also added air conditioning, a must for sanity during these summers now. See how we placed the ceiling vent quietly away from direct flow. It flows in every direction for every bedroom to share in the coolness.
I won’t show our gallery art walls as we’re private about family and boundaries, but this space really is much prettier in person. Walking through the ages and transition from crayon to watercolour is magical and inspiring each day. I chose a mixture of wood and gold/silver frames of all sizes and shapes. First handprints and the origins of our family live here. It’s a hallway of sweetness for us with room for more art and profiles on the right side. Left is full!
A few more things to do: Wallpaper on the back wall in spring, and a lovely large painting in the center to anchor the space.
This house is cosy and sits by mountains and lakes. It’s surounded by trees, so I went soft and sleepy with the colour palette, lifting up rooms to bounce light and deepening others to lean into the shadows. The overall effect is a much wanted and cosy hug.
Amor Milagre Hallway Renovation. Old Light that came with this 90s house that we never use.
Going from overlooked to the feature of this long, house-wide seen hallway, lighting is key.
Amor Milagre Hallway Renovation. New flower light. We put dimmers everywhere. Now, we can really see our pretty pictures since we definitely use this light. It’s soft and glowy.
We’ll put a special wallpaper on this back wall at the end with a scenic painting. I’m thinking a high-up view of an ocean and some French-Italian gardens to extend the imagination out. Just have to wait to paint that seascape as the novel illustrations will keep me busy all winter. So excited about the new books!
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Little touches make sweetness and bounce the eye around the constantly angling composition. Think 3-D for interiors, light and shadows. Now, we can see much better in the hallway and it lends a cosy mood in the restful darkness of winter.
*And now, for a cup of vanilla licorice tea and a sweet reading hour on the sofa with the dolls, bears, and bunnies.
Reading ‘Hitty’, a doll’s memoir. Babes love making even more tiny doll clothes. Old socks and fabric squares from the gifting Borrower clan are the basis for these garments. Sewing is fun for all ages. Get out the lace, ribbons, and button jars for endless fashion design possibilities!
It’s time to get the babies dancing as we decorate for the winter holidays. Roll about in the fluffy feather-light snow, have a cup of cocoa, and snuggle up to read friendly winter tales. This is our cosiest time of year. Happy Holidays! Love, ~ Amor Milagre
(We’re not religious, but we enjoy holiday music from all over the world.)
Snowy December Day Music Playlist, Amor Milagre
Borrowing blankets from the sitting room…brrr
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