Yesterday we went shopping for kitchen appliances at Sears. We bought our appliances from them when we renovated our existing kitchen and felt comfortable that they stocked all of the good brands at a good price (plus they have no interest and no payments for 12 months on their Sears card which is a […]

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Spencer and Trevor came by this morning to touch base. We discussed what needs to be done to the house as soon as we take posession on Nov.1st and which trades people need to be lined up for things to be ready for us to move into the 2nd and 3rd floors on November.30th. We […]

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We received quotes today from both Altima Kitchens and Fairway Kitchens. Marco from Altima came to our house this morning and together we went through his drawing of our kitchen based upon what we had discussed during our first initial meeting as well as the quote. I liked what he put together, very sleek, lots […]

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I thought I’d show you some tears of rooms that give me inspiration (a small sampling as my file is huge!). I find it really helpful to lay out images of rooms that I love and interesting to see what types of patterns emerge/ what materials I tend to gravitate towards ie. the marble backsplash […]

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So I booked our movers today. Should be interesting… We were flooded with pamphlets in the mail and phone calls from movers as soon as our “Sold” sign went up (real estate offices must sell their information). I called 2 companies and received very different quotes: one quoted $90/hr for 3 movers and a flat […]

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