Having never done anything even remotely like this before, acting as the designer and general contractor has been an enormous amount of work.
I’d the say the hardest, and most time consuming thing has been the design.  There are so many options available.  So many it’s almost paralyzing.  Over the past year I’ve been chipping away [...]

Last December I signed an agreement with Rona to replace the roof on our garage and carport.  It took us another 4 months to get the installer to bring the right shingle swatches from the right supplier so we could choose a colour.  Granted I got really busy wrapping up a project, we went to [...]

Right now our kitchen has a couple awkward window that face onto the back yard.  We want to open this up with a single large window centered on that wall.  This of course means getting the window soon because we’ll be opening up the wall when we demo the room, and we can’t leave an [...]

We had taken a drive-by of the house before our real estate agent set up a viewing.  It was a mess.  The front yard was a ratty vegetable garden covered in decaying newspapers, the path and stairs were hidden behind a cracked vinyl cover, the back yard was filled with trash and covered in dead moss.  [...]

I’ve been trying to get this party started for a very long time now. The story is simply that we felt a bit cramped in our edge-of-downtown concrete condo, and started looking around for something a little bigger and a little closer to the centre.
We ended up finding a house a bit further away from [...]