Meanwhile on the second and third floor we are preparing for our move-in date that is only 2 days away(!) I’m very hopeful that it will all come together… the walls of every room will be painted today, the carpet goes in tomorrow, appliances arrive tomorrow, electrician goes in to finish up on thursday morning, […]

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As you know we are taking all of the walls out of the main floor to make it completely open concept. That means we need a big beam running the length of the house. The beam will be 16 inches deep since we only want one post in the middle of the house. […]

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With any reno you have to expect unexpected costs. Today we found out that the existing footing we were using in the basement to properly support the post and beam on the main floor needed to be dug down deeper. It’ll cost an additional $850 but clearly needs to be done!

It was also confirmed that […]

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We’ve been struggling a bit with planning the space of the main floor powder room. It will sit in between the kitchen and the staircase leading downstairs. We don’t want the door to open either into the kitchen or opposite the dining room for obvious reasons so we have to work with the door opening […]

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I went to gather paint swatches today.

We need to choose colours for the 2nd floor hall and stairwell leading up to the 3rd floor landing, the den and all 3 bedrooms. Darren, our painter who’s fixing up the plaster walls advised to stick to light colours because they show less imperfections on the walls. Works […]

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