Basement Bathroom Renovation: Final Touches
Once the tile work was completely done, it was time to do all the finicky finishing touches. Painting Every wall in our house is Chantilly Lace white and I've rarely…
Christmas 2021
Here we are, 2 years into a pandemic, with many of the same frustrations felt a year ago. This year was somehow even harder than the last. Last year everyone…
Basement Renovation: New Windows
We have 4 basement windows and 3 of them were completely boarded up. Now that we're renovating the basement, we wanted to have some natural light and get new windows.…
Basement Bathroom Renovation: Tiling
Months into my basement bathroom reno, I was finally ready to tile. The walls were up, plumbing and electrical were in, and waterproofing was done. Materials and Tools My original…
Basement Bathroom Renovation: Waterproofing
I've done a lot of renovating over the last 6 years, and there are two things that scare me: structural work and anything that can cause water damage. So I…
Basement Bathroom Renovation: Backerboard and Drywall
After months and months of delay, I was finally at a place where I was ready to install walls in the bathroom. I cannot even explain how excited I was…
Basement Bathroom Renovation: Framing
With 5 people in the house now, our one 5'x7' bathroom just isn't going to cut it. We always planned on adding a bathroom in the basement, so when we…
Basement Bathroom Renovation: Shower Base Installation
When we underpinned our basement, we knew that we would build a bathroom and we had all the rough-in plumbing done then. But when we started figuring out our bathroom…
Basement Bathroom Renovation: Design
The layout of our bathroom was determined when we underpinned our basement and all the rough-in plumbing was done. But the specifics of the design still needed to be figured…
Second Floor Final Reveal
It's been two years since we bought our house and it's amazing how much has changed. In addition to our downstairs renovation, we have now completed our upstairs renovation. We replaced…
Bathroom Face-Lift
Now that we've pretty much renovated our entire house, the parts that are unrenovated (our kitchen and bathroom) look pretty sad in comparison. Our plan is to renovate the kitchen…
Basement Renovation: Part 3 – Furnace v. Boiler
The only major scope creek that we had during our basement renovation was our decision to change from forced air (a furnace) to radiant heat (via a boiler). We made the…
Basement Renovation: Part 2 – Design
We are renovating our basement in two phases. Phase 1 is simply underpinning the basement, replacing all the drains, and building new stairs. The second phase will be finishing the basement…
Professional Renovations
Alex and I have been renovation super stars for the last 2 years. We've completely transformed the first floor and are working on the second floor of our home and did almost all…
Could it be?!
Today we went to see the Parkdale house. This beautiful, character-filled home is priced right and seems to be flying under the radar. We might actually have a chance! Alex…