Maria’s Kitchen Banquette Design
11/18/2012So basically my kitchen is finished except for this corner. I have been so busy I haven’t had time to finalize which fabric I wanted, etc. I have finally selected the fabric for my roman shades but it’s too late to get my workroom to make them for me before Christmas. Sigh. However, my banquette…
Professionals Know When to Avoid the Obvious
09/09/2012Update | Spring 2020 We are in month number four, since we’ve moved into our new house and many of you know, we’re completely re-designing the front and back yard this Spring, one third of our backyard is concrete and it’s coming out. If you’re interested in seeing the entire landscape of our yard in…
Maria’s New Laundry Room: Before & After
09/07/2012Our new house has three bathrooms, one in the master, the main bath which you’ve seen and the powder room. The one thing I did not like about the layout when we first saw it was that you had to walk through the laundry room to get to the powder room, but that was before…
My Landscape Project this Fall
08/31/2012source So this Fall, the plan is to excavate the front and back yard, we are taking out all the railway ties and old plants in the backyard, everything but the two trees there are being pulled out. We already unceremoniously ripped out all the old rosebushes when we first took possession. We desperately need curves…
Painting House Numbers: Before & After
08/22/2012After the renovation this summer, we were down to the small jobs and I had my contractor make me a new board for the house numbers. I couldn’t move the location of the board because it was imbedded in the vinyl siding. source Changing the heinous light fixture made a big difference. And of course…
Spectrum Stone and Maria’s New Countertops
08/14/2012Did you know that you can’t measure for countertops until after your cabinets are installed? Well, that’s why it took an extra few weeks of camping outside when we first moved into our new house. Felix (the owner) & Vincent (sales) Then measurement day came, yay! One of the reasons I used Spectrum Stone to…
The View from my Kitchen
08/12/2012I styled my bookshelves and took photos today to show you. Then when I sat down to write this post and inserted all the images, they were just bad and colourless. So I need to take better photos. Sigh. I’m tired, and my vacation is over. Photo by Maria Killam So instead you’re getting a…
Just Blink Twice and It’ll be Black
08/01/2012Renovation update #28 Every single light fixture needed to be replaced in my new house. When I first arrived at The Lighting Warehouse in Richmond I had the good fortune to work with Anne (one of the owners). She was fabulous. I had spent a bunch of time on-line already selecting everything and then when…
My Design Studio French Door Fiasco
07/28/2012Renovation Update #28 We had just bought this house and I was discussing my plans with my kitchen designer friend Jan Romanuk. She said: ‘I’m doing this big renovation in West Vancouver and we are taking out a set of $4000 sliding glass doors because they are the wrong colour. And they’re only a year…
Update on My Turquoise Bathroom
07/22/2012Last week when I posted my main bathroom colour (I’m not touching this bathroom until the renovation except for colour, light fixture and accessories) I got this email from one of my lovely readers Sherri Wheeler: ‘What you have done so far is a huge improvement but I think the towel bar really ruins it….
Our Hedges Got Trimmed! Before & After
07/08/2012Home purchase update #19 source We have to wait until the fall to rip out the front and backyard because it’s hard to grow grass in the dead of summer. The only satisfying thing that happened which certainly improved the view into the backyard was trimming the Jack-in-the-Beanstalk hedges this past week. Unfortunately, there’s…
Maria’s Main Bathroom: Before & During
07/06/2012This is one of our dated bathrooms which will be renovated soon. It was so hard for me to get past just the colour in here. See the chair rail? If you have it in your house and you don’t have wallpaper above it take it out! Photos by Maria Killam I didn’t touch this…
Stuff Happens During Renovations
06/21/2012source When you are building a house or renovating, there are so many details that need to be managed and problem solved on-goingly. For example, in my new studio, suddenly there was a baseboard heater that had been installed on the wrong wall. My bookshelves from my last office were going on this wall and…
My cabinets were delivered on Thursday afternoon. When Richard from Quality Cabinets arrived to install them on Friday I had a question for him. I have seen so many half finished kitchens with the boxes installed without the doors, I half expected mine to arrive the same way because I thought maybe that was normal….
Family Room Bookshelves in Progress
06/12/2012The bookshelves in the family room were halfway there but needed some work (below). Before My carpenter added a few more shelves and we used the same crown moulding from the living room to finish the top. Then we added 2″ strips of molding on the front of each shelf so it achieve the look…
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