Jim finished the front porch and front door this afternoon.  I wanted to show you the before and after.

Here was the state of the front porch when we first took possession of the house:

Now here it is after all of the work we’ve done on it - including the new paint job:

Once the forecast looks […]

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Our favorite painter Jim (or Jim-bo as the kids like to call him) is back.  Since he’s been at our place he has done work for my parents and my sister to solid reviews. (You contact him at 416-951-4446)

We’re finally tackling the porch and the third floor decorative shingles both of which desperately need some […]

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As mentioned previously we are making progress on the second floor den. Austin’s team has been working hard on the drywall and mudding, priming and finally on re-building the trim around the doors and windows. Originally (like everyone I am sure) we tried to save the original trim. But in looking at […]

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For some time now Anke has been thinking of putting a really deep grey colour on the back wall of the house. We weren’t sure if it would work well given that we have now gone with a grey coloured countertop.

Darren, our painter extraordinaire recommended a grey that he really likes (Kendall Charcoal from […]

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Darren was very busy this weekend spraying all of the trim on the main floor. He uses oil based paint so we cleared out to a friend’s place to avoid the fumes.

Along with the trim Darren sprayed the fireplace (since we don’t have the budget to replace the brick yet), the new french doors […]

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