Hello my friends. My apologies for the silence over the past few months, but we took a much needed hiatus from this journey. Now that we are back and all rested up, I am ready to share more stories. And let’s just say there is no shortage of those to come. I wish I could say that things were magically completed while on hiatus. That with a blink and nod of the head, like a Jeanie, the house is complete….
As you may recall in Project Planning – The One Way Ticket my husband and I set out on an ambitious two week renovation project plan. With the help of my stepfather we tackled a laundry list of tasks. OK…. now I must be transparent and honest here. I use the word ‘we’ loosely, as really the work has pretty much all been done by my husband and stepfather, as for half the time I was not there, as I…
Today is a momentous day where we focus on the deck cover demolition and start to see the exterior potential of the house. As you may remember from Project Planning – The One Way Ticket, we have set a two week project plan, where the deck cover removal is one of the key tasks. The deck cover removal is a significant task in order to get prepped for the window and siding install on the house. The house is starting…
Our life to date on this home renovation project has seemed like nothing but demo and mishaps. Everything of course taking longer than originally planned. Where we thought we would be in three months has taken more like six months. But now it is time to move on and put this house back together. Time for it to go into a three month treatment plan of healthy eating, wellness and a few little nips and tucks. Re-emerging years younger and…
Today we continue our demo journey and focus on wallpaper removal. This one will be short and sweet… well actually not sweet. As there is nothing sweet about this design tool. As you will remember from Keys Please – and the Journey Begins, I have a love hate relationship with wallpaper. Well actually it is mostly a hate relationship, as I hate to remove it! But this is still an important post so you can learn how to handle this…
In this post we go down the stressful path of law suits, lawyers and legalities. Finding out what your legal rights are as a home buyer. And how the buyer versus seller legal game is played. As you may recall I postponed a couple of posts due to some legal action we had taken on. In Remediation – Down the Rabbit Hole and Demolition Continues – Dreams to Nightmares I discussed the issues we encountered with the house and eluded…
As you may recall from our last post Remediation – Down the Rabbit Hole, we encountered an array of mishaps around mould, the electrical and the foundation. The next day I awake from the rabbit hole and ask ‘was it all a dream?’ Sadly I think not. I truly believe instead I have entered a nightmare. Today we must face the house again, continue demolition and line up trades on this nightmare renovation project. You know, I had always said…
Do you remember the post Environmental Assessment Meets Alice in Wonderland where I took you on a journey down the rabbit hole of environmental assessments. Where we discovered we had asbestos containing material in our house and some mould issues. Well today I ask you to continue with me down the rabbit hole into the world of asbestos and mould remediation. We have decided to hire a professional to do the asbestos and mould remediation in areas of the house…
You always hear that the kitchen is the heart of a home. Well this home’s heart is not a healthy one and is in need of a heart transplant. So it is time to plan for this surgery, to increase the health of the house and give it another lifetime to live. We start by looking at the existing layout of the kitchen. The kitchen is currently 11’X11’ with a hallway that goes through it connecting the entry to the…
Today we tackle the area of the house I keeping eluding to, but keep avoiding. You are about to find out this has been for good reason. I told you this one deserved a story of its own. Well here it is… the workshop junk maze. What fun will we find at the centre of the maze once we wind our way through? Let’s start this story with a little reminder as to why we waited on this one. As…