THE CHANGES MADE

We'll start with the Kitchen and how we have made this project happen so far. We bought the house and held our apartment with a month of overlap. This proved to be a godsend. Granted this month was December. Of course it has Christmas and Newyears in it to complicate ones efforts at renovations. Living off site is well worth the extra money and had we known how much easier it would make doing reno's we may have opted to do it for 2 months and done the upstairs at the same time. Our goal was to rid the home of all the ugly colours (exhibit A see left) and make things more pleasing to live with. During December we gutted the whole main floor rebuilt it from exterior walls all the way back in. When people say they don't build them like they used to is an expression we now better understand. The amount of wood in this home could easily build 3 more by todays standards. So now with fresh wire, insulation, and new plumbing we basically have a new old home. All the charm on the outside remains while the inside has been freshened up. For the kitchen we opted to remove the tired old laminate floor to make way for the lovely black granite tiles. The old cabinetry was ditched in favour of some IKEA's cabinets. The counter top too is Granite that was installed from a local suplier. For what it is worth we will never use this person again. It was a horrible install that still remains uncomplete to this point some 7 months or so later. We bought new appliances as the house was sold without them. We opted for a gas stove which we just love and a new Samsung fridge bottom load freezer equiped with pull out drawers. As a result of all this we have a kitchen perfect for the 2 of us to cook in. Feels well laid out and brings a smile to our faces when we walk into it. It can also be noted from the picture the window frames which we made. They were modeled from the exsisting frames in the living room. The old original ones for the windows on the right hand side of the house were long since removed and replaced with a very basic style that did not suit. This is another feature of our home that we are most enamored with.