Renovating my House

 Renovation 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…

Renovation 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…

Home 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…

The 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…

Last weekend we ripped out every single plant in my front yard and this past weekend, we moved to the backyard. Here is what my future design studio looked like when we took possession. Do you think there is enough concrete here? it’s coming out. We will need serious landscaping in the front and back…