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Entries from July 2008

The story of 247reno.ca in New Dreamhomes Magazine

July 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Kind of funny…

A little while back a freelance writer left Anke and I a blog comment about wanting to write about us in a magazine. We thought it was kind of fun so we said yes. We did an interview with her over the phone. We weren’t sure what to expect.

On July […]

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Tags: Media

Rain forces us inside to begin framing and insulating the old kitchen

July 21st, 2008 · 7 Comments

We were hoping today to finish the deck and cross that one completely off the to-do list. Unfortunately it rained heavily all day and thus we had to move our work day indoors.

It gave us the chance to begin framing and insulating the old upstairs kitchen and move it a little bit closer to […]

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Tags: Drywall · Framing

Masonry work on the back of the house

July 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments

One of the big tasks that we’ve had hanging over us was to replace the old second floor door (that used to walk out to a second floor deck on top of the crummy extension) with a window.

It’s a big job since it requires a mason to remove bricks from the top of the old […]

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Tags: Masonry · Windows

More progress on the back deck

July 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Another good day of work on the back deck. We finished cladding the planter in cedar and began work on the lower walls that run beside the stairs.

We have one more full day of work at least. Here are a couple of photos:

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Tags: backyard · deck

Progress on the back deck

July 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Well the wood finally arrived and we’ve now made some progress on the back deck.

Here are some photos of the new side walls that we constructed tonight. We played a lot with the spacing of the upper boards to make sure that we had enough privacy yet left enough room for the leaves and […]

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Tags: backyard · deck