Reno #33 – What’s up with plumbing fixtures?

First of all, did you know that Urban Barn has a neat little online room planning tool on their website? You plunk in the dimensions of your room and drag and drop furniture that is properly scaled. It's fun. TOO FUN. I was playing around with our master bedroom so I could determine if we could fit … Continue reading →

Apartment living in HOTTAWA

Have I mentioned that we don't have A/C in our new apartment? Although I'm not the kind of person who has temperature control going all day long, I do like to have it when I'm sleeping. And suffice it to say, I'm not sleeping. Last night it was 32C in our bedroom. Today, it's gone down to 30C. … Continue reading →

Reno update #32: kitchen counters, oh my

Last week I had a design meeting with our architect and I picked out a material that I really liked for our kitchen counters. It's a quartz called Zodiaq and it's made by DuPont. The colour I liked is called Abyss Black (pictured here). It satisfied my desire for black kitchen counters without … Continue reading →

Reno post #31: studs

The title of this post does not refer to the guys who frequent our construction site, but to the wall studs. Wall studs carry the vertical load of the house. So when you hear someone say the house is "down to the studs" it means that the drywall has been stripped away and the "sticks" are showing. … Continue reading →

Random observations about our apartment

When the girls were infants we washed them in a special baby bathtub. It was basically a giant moulded plastic baby-sized bowl with a non-slip reclining slope on one side. I'm sure my grandmother would have found the need for this thing absolutely hilarious. Her kids were scrubbed in the horse … Continue reading →

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Reno #33 – What’s up with plumbing fixtures?

Apartment living in HOTTAWA

Reno update #32: kitchen counters, oh my

Reno post #31: studs

Random observations about our apartment