Just a couple pictures of the flooring that has gone in, they are about 1/3 of the way done I would say. It is looking pretty good so far, but it sure feels different right now, I think it will feel better once all the furniture is moved back into the room, right now […]

Cindy and I went to the granite shop today to take a look at the slab they had for us. We were originally told they were getting around 10 slabs in and we would likely be able to get a choice of the one we wanted, however there was some kind of mix up […]

This past weekend Cindy and I picked out the handles for the kitchen cabinets and pantry. We ended up going with a stainless steel square tube handle from Lee Valley. They are a nice chunky handle that still looks fairly modern.

For the upper cabinets we’re using the one listed as “B” in […]

This past weekend my brother and I spent most of Saturday ripping up all the K3 underlay that was under all the old lino in my place. Luckily the K3 wasn’t glued down (it was only nailed) but it was still a lot of work to tear up. The majority of the work […]

So I now have a new dishwasher on its way. Sears.ca had a sale on a few weekends ago for $400 off a Kenmore Elite dishwasher, turns out that it is actually made by Bosch so it is a fairly good machine. I missed the sale on the weekend but I called and […]

I recently decided to start some renovations on my place. The current plan is to replace all the flooring on the main floor with maple hardwood, new baseboards, replace the kitchen cabinets, replace the kitchen counter top, new dishwasher, new pantry cabinets to replace the shelves in the back hall (which are a […]