In the Press
From designing the new STEAM hub and educational centre in Lindsay to how to set up a guest room, you will find all the ways Home by Tim + Chris can help you live your best Kawartha lifestyle!
Mixing Metals in your Home or Cottage Design
Home by Tim + Chris - June 2026
Great design is about thoughtful contrast and balance. As designers, we understand how to layer different hardware finishes, colours, and styles that feel intentional, cohesive, and beautifully curated.
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Home by Tim + Chris - June 2026
Design Notes: Designing for Today While Planning for Tomorrow!, Where do I Start when updating my Lighting?, Top Local Picks, Colborne Street Gallery, The Grove Theatre and more!
Ideas for Home or Cottage Landscaping
Home by Tim + Chris - May 2026
There is so much potential for how we can use our exterior space, and often we walk right on by the exact spot that would be the perfect place for an additional way to enjoy the great outdoors!
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Home by Tim + Chris - May 2026
Lake Days & Local Ways, Design Notes: Because Everyone Still Asks About White, Can I mix metals and fixtures?, Top Local Picks, Colborne Street Gallery, and more!
Budget Breakdown: If You Love
Plywood, Peek Inside This $209K Tiny Cabin in Ontario
Dwell + Exclusive Magazine - April 2026
See our Dwell Magazine feature for Dwell + Exclusive
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Home by Tim + Chris - April 2026
Lake Days & Local Ways, Design Notes: Trusted by Design - The Power of a Referral, How do I treat open ended kitchen island space?, Top Local Picks, Colborne Street Gallery, and more!
What are New Trends We Are Seeing for Kitchen Island Design?
Home by Tim + Chris - March 2026
There’s something about a kitchen island that naturally draws everyone in. No matter how thoughtfully a home or cottage is designed, the greatest gatherings from gossip to laughter, from stories to games and all the inner workings of family life, all inevitably circle back to the kitchen island!
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Home by Tim + Chris - March 2026
Lake Days & Local Ways, Design Notes: Living First/Client-Led Design, Design Tip from Chris: How do I choose wallpaper for my room?, Top Local Picks, Colborne Street Gallery, and more!
Spring Real Estate and Considerations for Home/Cottage
Home by Tim + Chris - February 2026
Design considerations for the real estate market as we head into spring. Our designers outline design elements that can help with renovation decisions for your home or cottage.
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Home by Tim + Chris - February 2026
Slow Design: The Intentional Home blog, Top Local Picks, In Good Company Guest Podcast, Designing for all Seasons, How Downsizing Creates More space for Life, and more!
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Home by Tim+Chris - January 2026
Cozy by Design: Styling Your Home or Cottage for Winter Living! Top Local Picks, Designing a Home for Cottage for All Seasons, The Wonder of the Walkout Basement, Slow Design and other Musings.
Tim and Chris All In
On Fenelon Falls
In Good Company Podcast - November 2025
Chris Van Lierop and Tim Wisener - “Home by Tim and Chris” – the full-service architectural design firm is one of the bigger success stories of Fenelon’s business community. (And all of Kawartha Lakes!).
Warming up Your Home or Cottage Decor!
Home by Tim + Chris - December 2025
This is the season of blankets, firesides, slow mornings, and quiet weekends at the cottage. Thoughtful design can make those moments feel even more special.
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Home by Tim + Chris - December 2025
Our homes and cottages are our retreats. Our creative inspiration, our palette to the world of our friends and family depicting our interests, our personality and a view into our everyday character!
Integrating Lifestyle and Wellness into your Home or Cottage
Home by Tim + Chris - November 2025
This week our Home by Tim + Chris designer outlines two ideas for building more of a focus on health and wellness into your home or cottage environment!
From Worn to Wow! Explore our Upholstery Home/Cottage services
Home by Tim + Chris - November 2025
Our homes and cottages are our retreats. Our creative inspiration, our palette to the world of our friends and family depicting our interests, our personality and a view into our everyday character!
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Home by Tim+Chris - November 2025
This past week we had a fun and interactive time in the design studio, compiling fall mood boards. Bringing the Cozy Factor Into Your Home and Cottage, and Designer Spotlight.
Design Advice for Embracing Fall in Home Design and Decor
Home by Tim + Chris - October 2025
Fall is the season of transition — when the air turns crisp, the light softens, and our focus shifts from the outdoors back to the comforts of home.
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Home by Tim+Chris - October 2025
Learn how at Home by Tim + Chris we are working with clients on whole home solutions. Updating your lighting is one of the best ways to modernize and freshen your design approach.
Design Advice for Updating Home and Cottage Lighting!
Home by Tim + Chris - September 2025
Updating your lighting is one of the best ways to modernize and freshen your design approach. As designers we think about each room and the role that lighting needs to play.
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Home by Tim+Chris - September 2025
Corn Cob: A Nod to a Charming Past with a Renovation for the Future. Revisiting Renovation - It Starts with an Idea and a Conversation. Introducing color through art and more!
What is Involved With A Full Build? Have an Example to Share?
Home by Tim + Chris - August 2025
We couldn’t be happier you asked! Maybe we even engineered this question so we could share our spectacular Project Nahma with you! Located on the beautiful shores of South Bay Balsam Lake.
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Home by Tim+Chris - August 2025
Introducing Project Nahma from the beautiful shores of South Bay Balsam Lake. Thinking of renovating... how do you get started? Colborne Street Gallery, Design Tips and more!
I’m Thinking of Renovating. How do I get started?
Lakeside Design Notes - Summer 2025
Consider which rooms are hardest hit when it comes to everyday use and may require updating more often. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: kitchens and bathrooms!
What's New at Home by Tim + Chris: Our Design Studio
Home by Tim + Chris - July 2025
Room by Tim + Chris has evolved into our design studio. We have some beautiful images to share with you so you can get a sense of what we are envisioning!
Our Homes Magazine Summer Issue Featuring Project Nahma
Our Homes - Mid-Summer 2025
This new family home on Balsam Lake's South Bay was built on the property of the historic Nahma Lodge. Designed as a Bone Structure steel-frame build, approximately 8,000 square feet.
Introducing Colour
Through Art
Kawartha Social - May 2025
Art is at the core of everything we do at Home by Tim + Chris. We love art so much that in 2018 we opened the Colborne Street Gallery. Art is how we build personality, character and depth into a space.
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Home by Tim+Chris - July 2025
What's life without a little change! Gallery and Room have switched spaces to bring you more art, design and cultural experiences! Learn more about The Power of Exterior Design.
Lakeside Design Notes - How do I Choose Art For My Home/Cottage?
Home by Tim + Chris - May 2025
We’ve been down this road a few times, and it’s never easy is it?! Curtains can be confusing! Let’s review a few key details to keep in mind when selecting curtains.
Business Hall of Fame Inducts Five Local Leaders
Lindsay Advocate - June 2025
Inductees are Gordon A. Ferguson/Northern Casket, the Poole Family/Buckeye Marine, Sherry Peel/Bigley Shoes and Clothing, Tim Wisener/The Grove Theatre and Torrey-Dale Farms.
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Home by Tim + Chris - June 2025
Gallery and Room are switching spaces to bring you more art, design and cultural experiences! Learn about how renovation provides an opportunity to completely refurbish your home/cottage.
Tim Wisener of Home by Tim + Chris Awarded JA Northern & Eastern Ontario (JA-NEO) Business Hall of Fame Award for City of Kawartha Lakes
Home by Tim+Chris - May 2025
Tim along with other deserving inductees received his award in Lindsay on May 8.
Lakeside Design Notes - How to Pick The Right Curtains For My Windows?
Home by Tim + Chris - May 2025
We’ve been down this road a few times, and it’s never easy is it?! Curtains can be confusing! Let’s review a few key details to keep in mind when selecting curtains.
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Home by Tim+Chris - May 2025
Read our blog about designing for the Kawartha lifestyle. Learn about the Home by Tim + Chris partnership with Four Points Construction. How do you know what your personal design style is?
Ask A Designer! How Do I Know What My Personal Design Style Is?!
Home by Tim + Chris - May 2025
Are you having trouble defining your personal style? We’ve got lots of input on how to find what best suits not only your taste and design sensibility, but also your lifestyle!
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Home by Tim+Chris - April 2025
Learn how we can help you build, design, refresh and more. Home by Tim + Chris, received the call that our owner Tim Wisener would be a recipient of the King Charles III Coronation Medal!
Ask a Designer! Outdoor Furniture for a Kawartha Lifestyle
Home by Tim + Chris - April 2025
Ontario winters can be hard on our or cottage exterior furniture. Our designers cover the options for balancing functionality and design when it comes to outdoor spaces in the Kawarthas.
King Charles III Coronation Medal Recipients
Explore Fenelon Falls - March 2025
Tim Wisener grew up visiting Kawartha Lakes and enjoying time with family at the cottage. He quickly integrated into the community as both a cornerstone employer and a key community leader!
Home by Tim+Chris Awarded
King Charles III Coronation Medal
Press Release - March 2025
In March of 2025, we at Home by Tim + Chris, received the call that our Owner Tim Wisener would be a recipient of the King Charles III Coronation Medal!
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Home by Tim+Chris - March 2025
From tariffs and the design world, to our new Kawartha Art Gallery initiative, to closet organization from Ask A Designer. Check out the March issue now.
Kawartha Art Gallery
For The Art In Everyone
Press Release - March 2025
Kawartha Art Gallery, Linborough Property Corp. and Home by Tim + Chris to contribute to Kawartha Lakes cultural vibrancy with dedicated new space.
Ask a Designer!
How Do I Organize My Closet?!
Explore Fenelon Falls - March 2025
It’s March and you don’t have better things to do! What could be better than getting ready for spring with a closet glow-up?! Our designers have a lot to say about how to get you started.
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Home by Tim+Chris - February 2025
Passport to Design Blog: Learn how travel inspires and informs design, tell us about your design project, Ask a Designer: How to style your TV, our Winter Group Show is back, Design Tips and more!
Ask a Designer!
How To Style Your TV!
Explore Fenelon Falls - February 2025
Our designers weigh in with ideas and inspiration for how to integrate your TV into your space for either a focal point or not, depending on your intended use.
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Home by Tim+Chris - January 2025
Read about the new community on Cameron Lake ‘The Moorings’, Living Connected Through Design, Ask a Designer - Do I need a tub in my home?, Colborne Street Gallery Pitch Days, and more!
Ask a Designer!
New Year. New Sheets!
Home by Tim+Chris - January 2025
Did you know that in some countries like Portugal it’s tradition to start the new year with new sheets?! Freshening things up around your home makes sense to usher in and signify a new start.