A storytelling home by Léa Plourde-Archer

Modern tales of a messy abode

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She/her. Montrealer. Full-time freelance content creator, blogger and translator (French to English/ English to French). Currently working on several manuscripts about the life of composer Violet Archer (my great aunt).

Category: The living room

  • The apple crate shelf

    The apple crate shelf

    This apple crate shelf is in the hallway leading to the living room, standing just outside the door to the bedroom. It is, simply, three apple crates pilled one on top of the other. No further installation is required! The top one holds my collection of CDs that I’ve built up over the years. I…

  • The mural

    The mural

    It’s been a while since I’ve told an actual story about my home (the initial point of this blog). So here is one about the mural in my living room: Ever since I was little, walls have been like blank canvases for me. They are just waiting to be drawn on. For most, it would…

  • The Living Room

    This is our living room. Like the other rooms in our home, it isn’t big, but what it lacks in size, it makes up in height and cachet. This means that we’ll be using these tall walls by adding lots of shelving in order to store our (quickly growing) collection of books, DVDs and random…