Homeware Haul

One of the most exciting (and expensive) parts of owning a new home is going furniture and decor shopping to fill your home! Michael and I are lucky that a lot of the items we have now are pieces we already owned, or hand-me-down items that fit nicely in our home. However, we have still been slowly but surely filling all the other empty spaces, as well as buying some other smaller items for our kitchen.

Today I want to share with you all some of the most recent homeware items we’ve purchased (and love).

I’ve had this as “my colour” ever since I started collecting kitchen items in my hope chest years ago. So when we saw these Le Creuset salt and pepper mills at Crate and Barrel, we had to have them!

Okay, these maybe don’t really count as “homeware” items, but they were still an exciting purchase! I’ve wondered if infused olive oil really made enough of a difference to be worth it, and now I can tell you that it does. We bought these Blood Orange and Harissa infused olive oils from evoolution, and then used them that night while cooking fish tacos for supper. And, oh man, they really transformed that meal.

We bought a giant bottle of olive oil to keep in our cold room. We figured we could just use it to refill our smaller bottle of olive oil instead of buying new stuff every time we ran out. Well, we quickly realized the impracticality of trying to refill a plastic disposable bottle, so this oil bottle from Crate and Barrel was a must!

We had some empty wall space in our cozy little sitting area, so we decided to get a nice bookcase from IKEA to put in there. I think the doors give it a more sophisticated feeling, as well as opening up the option to potentially use it to display some more delicate decor pieces. Either way, I’m just excited to use this as an excuse to go buy more books!

Speaking of delicate decor pieces, I’ve got a few that are quite special to me, and I didn’t have anywhere to display them that also kept them safe from Baxter’s reach. He’s big enough now that even if I did put them up on a shelf or counter, he could still jump up and accidentally knock them over! So we got this nice display cabinet from IKEA to hold these items, and it’s even got a door on it so Baxter can’t get to them!

When we were first showing my parents our new home, my mom kept pointing out all the different places where a hutch could go. I kept teasing her about it, saying we didn’t need a hutch. Well, let this be a lesson to always listen to your mother, because guess what? We needed a hutch. We bought it from Structube, and according to them it’s technically a “sideboard“, but the important thing is that it provides us with more storage.
I’m absolutely obsessed with this piece. It goes so well with the mid-century modern theme we have going in our living room. On top of that, it’s just a beautiful piece of furniture, in my opinion. The doors also remind me of these big speakers my dad used to have for his record player when I was younger, so it brings a feeling of nostalgia, too!

So, those are some of the homeware pieces we most recently picked up – some big, some small! If you know of any great (preferably Canadian) homeware companies, let me know in the comments!

Until next time,
Nadine