We bought our townhome back in 2006 and although I had grand ideas on how quickly we’d be able to do upgrades, I failed to understand these things take time. As my mom diplomatically put it after hearing all my plans said “Don’t be surprised if it takes longer than a year…” She was right [...]
Category Archives: House
Happy New Year!
Friday, January 1, 2010
A big hello to 2010! This will be a big year for me, but what it holds *exactly* has yet to be unravelled. A lot of work, patience, and perseverance is required. I just know in the end, it will be alright.
A quiet New Year’s celebration was held last night, with too. much. food. My [...]
Library Renovations Continued
Thursday, December 31, 2009
“If you want to test your marriage, don’t just paint a room, do a wall treatment.”
In 2006, when we moved into our townhome (an Urbandale’s Pacifica) we decided to take the room that was designed for the Master Bedroom and turn it into the Library/Office. We wanted the back room, which is the quietest and [...]
Library Renovation Update
Sunday, December 6, 2009
There hasn’t been an update on the library renovations lately because we’ve hit a small snag. It seems that the paint mixing machines at Home Depot are unable to dispense the correct pigment to make the right colour glaze to do the ‘Antiqued Leather’ wall treatment. Home Depot has called Ralph Lauren Home to sort [...]
Library Renovations
Saturday, November 21, 2009
We started the library renovations this week. This isn’t a full renovation, we can’t afford that but we needed something more inviting and functional than what we had, so some more Ikea shelves (on sale, no less), some paint, and some rearrangement of the existing furniture will have to do. As I have learned, it’s [...]
Studio Renovation
Thursday, October 29, 2009
I have finally gotten some work done on my studio. Lots of lessons learned (and still learning).
Before further ado, I give you the before shot:
And the after shot:
More photos at my flickr page.
The paint was ‘Buffy’ by CIL, a good neutral colour, since in this room I need to make colour choices for different projects [...]
Curtains
Saturday, April 11, 2009
I have finally managed to get curtains up on the patio door beside my desk, something that really needed to be done when we had first moved in. I bought white Ritva curtains from Ikea and had originally bought a black Lummig curtain rod set for above the door. When I got everything home, it [...]
New shelves
Saturday, March 21, 2009
I have been itching to get shelving into our home. After more than 2 years of looking at an empty wall above my “desk” (a glass top kitchen table), I decided to pick up two 190 cm Lack shelves, black-brown, from Ikea. They at $29.99 each and take a bit of hacking to get them [...]
L’atelier continued
Friday, March 13, 2009
More progress on the basement. We’ve both been sick with nasty colds so work had slowed down considerably these past few weeks. We are all better now and getting lots done. Today, our electrician finished his work and we are very pleased with it. He installed the 4 banks of fluorescent lights (you can see [...]
L’atelier
Monday, February 16, 2009
The first of the renovations have been started inside the house, in the basement. Last year, all improvements were done outside and still in progress, a fence and a gate needed to be built (this year, the second fence and deck need to be built). The basement is being dedicated to the workshop. This isn’t [...]