With a working shower now in the basement (more to come on that later) it was time to tackle the upstairs bathroom. The second floor washroom was really why we tackled this whole project to begin with. It was the catalyst since it had ripped open walls (due to pipes freezing last winter), […]

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On holiday Monday we began to organize the basement. We have a lot of stuff down there (we’re always amazed at how much stuff we accumulate and neither one of is a pack rat!) It was a long process to properly organize all of our tools, sports gear etc… In addition it […]

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In one of our last posts I talked about how we were about to undertake renovating the old second floor kitchen. I mentioned how we wanted to simply put 1/4 inch drywall over all of the lathe and plaster to avoid a lot of the work and expense.

Leon K who is a loyal reader […]

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Before you think we’re slobs let me explain the junk pile.

I had to remove the back addition in the dead of winter. Because we’ve had so much snow this year it was impossible to remove all of the junk (and there is a lot) since the side of our house and the front yard […]

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This past weekend my good friend Ben came over to lend a helping hand AGAIN. We tore apart the second floor kitchen and added to the junk pile in our backyard.

The demolition went well and luckily it was a beautiful day so we were able to move a lot of the cupboards and the […]

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