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Entries from January 2008

Our Main floor Hardwood Floors

January 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Darren is still busy with taping, mudding and sanding. It seems like a slow process but it’s a really big job to make these walls beautiful.

We are looking ahead to what needs to be done next: our Hardwood Floors. We met with Danny from Capital Floors tonight who re-finished our Hardwood on our 2nd floor […]

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Tags: Hardwood Floors · The new house · Uncategorized

We have Drywall!

January 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The guys completed the drywalling on time as per their projected timeline of Jan.16th and the taping and mudding has begun. It’s really amazing to see how the space is taking form now that the walls are up. Here are some pics of what it looks like. The timeline for Darren to finish all of […]

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Tags: Drywall · Timelines · The new house

Today’s Progress

January 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Here are some pictures of what things look like today. We passed our insulation inspection so let the drywalling begin!

This is what the back of the house looks like now with the majority of the back addition down. They have opened up the space where our french doors and transom will go and have bricked […]

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Tags: Timelines · Masonry · The new house

Yet another Kitchen change

January 8th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been flip flopping alot with our Kitchen. I thought we had it all settled… but I layed awake a few nights ago going over every single detail and wondering if we’d made all the right choices. (This is clearly why people hire designers!) I contacted Marco from Altima in a panic to review our […]

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Tags: The new house · Kitchens

Flatscreen television for the main floor

January 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments

With the boxing day specials on this past weekend Kirk couldn’t help but take a trip to Best Buy to purchase a flatscreen television for the main floor.

The prices were good and also the NFL playoffs were starting so no time to waste!

Kirk found a 37 inch Samsung LCD television on for $1,199 including 12 […]

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Tags: Audio/visual