Demo & Decor

Wow, what a year. The ups and downs of the last year have slowed our house projects considerably, as we faced some financial uncertainty due to the pandemic and its related job changes. During the summer and especially during the first lockdown, I was able to clean up a lot more weeds in the backyard… Read more

It has been far too long without an update! Winter certainly slowed things down, as we were mostly focused on finishing trim but since the garage is not insulated (..yet: that is a project for another day! Alex wants to turn it into a full fledged workshop eventually) we had to wait for milder weather… Read more

Happy New Year! Trim slowed us down quite a bit, as well as just being busy with work, life, and the holidays. We are still picking away at the trim – the downstairs is done except for the powder room and the office upstairs is totally done. The main bathroom is installed but not painted,… Read more

Trim is a big job! We managed to get a lot more done this weekend.. most of the downstairs has been installed, including the fireplace trim! We still need to fill the nail holes and paint, of course. Heaven forbid I run out of painting! Life has been very busy at work and otherwise, so… Read more

Wow, already end of November?! We took a couple weekends off to enjoy the house, see some friends and family, and get back to full energy.. so now it is back to full production! In the meantime, we did put up a mirror in the master bath And pick out our floor registers Alex spent… Read more

While the cat may have been enjoying the open concept space, I am quite happy that we now have all of our doors installed! However, I was not happy to have to paint all of them! Two coats each on 7 doors got a bit tedious. However Alex sure enjoyed installing them – he is… Read more

We got our countertops this week, and backsplash! Yay! This means I was able to unpack my kitchen stuff. We have so much more storage space now! I am really going to enjoy cooking in this kitchen, and I gave it a good test today when making food for the work week Alex also got… Read more

Handles! Countertops! Sink! Faucet! Dishwasher! Backsplash! Stay tuned for more!

Had a wonderful weekend with absolutely delightful sunny fall weather! Friday I was completely exhausted so I had a quiet night and made lots of food for the week in Dad’s functional kitchen (so that we don’t end up resorting to Dollarama chili… again..) Now our fridge at the house is fully stocked! Alex picked… Read more

Another reno weekend has come and gone but this weekend was a long one thanks to the Thanksgiving Holiday Alex took some extra days off to have an extra extra long weekend. Unfortunately the first day of his holiday was monopolized by Ikea’s returns department. We had a number of items we ended up not… Read more