The Kawarthas are finally teeming with growth and greenness! As we usher in summer, gardeners everywhere rush to see the results of their transplanted efforts from last year. A key consideration in any garden is the ability to creatively decorate and embellish your garden zones, while embracing the simple yet wild ways of nature.

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. Having your own art gallery pretty much solves the problem of not having enough art in your life!

We’ve all seen the meme of the person brandishing the measuring tape and scoping out a room with the partner looking on with side eye! While partners everywhere fear renovation fever, rest assured a pointed renovation has its merits and certainly has its place when a new build or move is just not on the books.

As interior designers, our work is not just about design but also about the fabric of our community that we call home. We consider the notion of home to be a collective of everything around us. When we create functional and sustainable spaces, our client’s lives are enhanced which in turn improves the communities they inhabit.

Nothing is more personally ingrained into our sense of expression and character than colour is. Colour is powerful and it’s the original influencer! With the ability to affect behaviours, perceptions and emotions, colour can produce psychological and even physiological reactions.

Have you ever walked into a room and all the elements are exactly the right balance for the eye? The space and light communicate, form and function are unified, past and present are equally represented and the room just gives you a certain feeling? Maybe it’s sophisticated, maybe it feels collected, perhaps it’s casual, but overall, the space just feels right.

It was 8 years ago and we had been up one wall and down many others when we decided why not make this a thing. With over 15 years of renovation and build design experience, we decided to make our Sturgeon Lake cottage our home and start designing for the Kawartha lifestyle.

We’ve often talked about the importance of travel and design intersecting, because as designers we rely on global inspiration, partnerships and associations. Global partnerships are a good thing, since the dawn of the internet, design has enjoyed a borderless collective pot of influence, sharing and innovation. 

Travel is the ultimate eye opener. It is emotional, evocative and thought provoking. In no other way do we engage all the senses like we do while travelling. The emotions we attach to new experiences allow us to return to our everyday and see our spaces with new inspiration, energy and ideas.

Connecting when it comes to interior design, has long been described as connecting rooms, indoors to the outdoors, paint colours, repetition from room to room and other such design specific tactics.

Nothing says curated, more than Christmas. From colour coordinated tree décor to the perfect wrapping paper scheme, to lavish table settings with all the right details.

Clear Lake, located in Peterborough County, is surrounded by woods and picturesque beauty for miles! Located next to Stoney Lake, and as part of the Trent Severn Waterway, Clear Lake is nestled amongst a serene and natural setting.

At Home by Tim + Chris, what started as a saying, has fast become our mantra: “driven by us, highly influenced by you.” As Canadian focused designers, our role is to listen to your vision and use a multidisciplinary approach to interpret that vision into the most beautiful and functional spaces that we possibly can.

Introducing, Kim and Tim, who found this beautiful Confederation Log Home on the east shore of Sturgeon Lake, that needed a whole lot of vision and design expertise to create their Kawartha dream!

Room Refresh is a unique service created by Room by Tim + Chris as a solution for many scenarios we can all relate to when it comes to making our spaces feel like us and finding our personal design style.

Our Nahma Lodge project is situated on Balsam Lake. Few will know this interesting factoid, but Balsam Lake is famous for being the highest ocean-navigable body of water on earth! As the highest point on the Trent-Severn Waterway, water flows out of Balsam at one end near Kirkfield and at the other end at Rosedale which are both connection points with the Waterway.

Sturgeon Point is one of the oldest settlements you will find in Ontario. Known as a summer destination, Sturgeon Point dates back to 1833 when John Langton landed at the well-known Cedar Spring just around the apex of Sturgeon Point.

Imagine dark, charred cedar boards then burnished and sealed with natural oils, contrasted against lush lilac bushes on one side and a gentle lapping shoreline on the other.

Nancy and Vince built their dream house and were feeling absolutely grateful to be where they are at starting retirement. When they walked into our offices…

When we were first introduced to this cottage on Gull Lake we were taken aback at the setting. Perched overtop of Gull Lake with a great view…