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Second floor landing is looking better

April 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Our house is lathe and plaster. At least it is in parts that haven’t been renovated yet.

If you’ve lived in old houses then chances are you’ve experienced its joys. Constant cracking, no insulation behind it, etc… Some people like the character. For us, (after spending this kind of money and putting […]

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Tags: Drywall

Old second floor kitchen being converted to a den

August 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments

Good news. We’re making good time in converting the old second floor kitchen into a den/tv room.

Ben and I made good progress a couple of weekends ago in getting the second outside wall framed and insulated. From there we turned our attention to wiring everything for surround sound, cable and power. Finally, […]

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Tags: Drywall · Framing · Contractors

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

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