Building a House

Journalizing the Build

Oct 28 to Nov 17, 2017

It’s been awhile since I posted pictures of the build as we have been quite busy with other activities. Jim is playing hockey now here twice a week and golfing and I have joined two artist groups and have been participating is some workshops. We are also taking in some of the events and activities on the island along with choosing and purchasing materials for the house. I have compiled some pictures of the progression of the build into a slide show.

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I have also put together some random pictures from around the site. It’s all coming together fairly quick even though we have had a bit of rain.

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Project: Fireplace

Anyone who has been at our house on Maple Wood knows that our fireplace was always pretty “plain Jane”.  When we had the house built we needed to cut costs, so the fireplace was never really finished the way we had planned. Now this is kind of a good and bad scenario.

The bad – we never were able to enjoy a finished fireplace 😦

The good – finishing it now has allowed us to update to a more contemporary look. 🙂

Thanks again to Andre and Jim for a job well done. I could not have wished for a more beautiful finished project and we are now very close to the end of our renos. We just need to do some: painting and baseboard work in the master bedroom, outside yard clean up, finishing up with some odds and ends and a major clean up (including a purge). We are almost there!

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More Renos!

Posted by Wanda

Working hard to get the “Regina” house ready for sale!  Andre and Jim tackled the big job of refinishing the carpeted stairs with wood. Gone are the white spindles; replaced by wrought iron and maple and it looks beautiful!  The guys did an amazing job!

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“Renos”

Posted by Wanda

A year or more out from our anticipated move and we are working on getting the house ready for sale. Started with the kitchen.

Before and after

The work begins

Building a kitchenette in the basement.

(Six to eight weeks without a kitchen is a long time!)

Gettin’ er done!

The finished kitchen

Thanks to Andre Longtin and of course Jim for getting this massive job done. It looks amazing! (Nikki likes it too)

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