The Stairs Project
We’ve been wanting to open up the stairwell/stairs, and just modernize it a little. Before the renovation took place on this particular project, we always felt the dtywall on the stairwell make the whole...
Category: Renovations
Fence Panel Restoration
With the completion of the fence that was falling down, I still needed to restore the fence to the North of our home, and to the South of our home. These were your typical...
A horizontal slatted fence
I’ve been wanting to replace the West facing fence for the longest time. This is a shared fence with our neighbour. I wanted to do the fence replacement myself, and I was hoping that...
Whole House Fan Installation
I’ve been wanting to install a whole house fan for our home for quite some time. As far back as when we were living in our town home in fact. The first time I...
Fence panel and gate
So this past weekend I installed a new fence panel (from home depot) and made a new gate from scratch. I used a cedar panel fence, to add to the existing fence on the...
Garage Door opener died
So the garage door opener has been acting up for quite some time. It’s been very annoying, where the door would sometimes close, and would sometimes open, and would just have a mind of...
Painted the garage door
So I’ve been wanting to paint the garage door white ever since we moved in. Sadly, I forgot to take a before photo, but I was able to find one. Lisa and I did...
Mudroom renovation
So as you saw about a month ago, I installed the barn door. This made room for us to be able to put in some shelving. We put in the Ikea Pax shelving solution,...
a Christmas gift for myself… a bidet
I’ve been wanting a Japanese bidet for ages. The problem was with getting power to the unit. Since I learned how to install an additional electrical outlet, this was made much easier! I bought...
Barn door installation
So there was a glass door which went to the entrance of our mudroom. I removed it, because it opened inward, and was taking up space along that wall when it was opened. We...
Smart home water sensor
I’ve been wanting to install a smart home water/flood sensor by our hot water tank for sometime, and I ended up discovering a relatively inexpensive solution with the Xiaomi Aqara water sensor. I then...
Gate installation and creation
I’ve been wanting to replace the ugly gate that was on the South side of our home for the longest time. It was just such an eye sore, and not functional at all. I...
Concrete Patio addition
We wanted to make an addition to our existing backyard patio by adding some additional concrete to extend out from the existing concrete slab of which we had. My uncle was kind enough to...
Sagging garage door, which caused openings underneath
I’ve been wanting to do something about our sagging garage door for the longest time. It’s been even more disconcerting, because Winter was nearing, and I didn’t want rodents coming in underneath the openings...
Smart blinds installation
I ordered some custom blinds from Aliexpress. I decided to get 4 motorized blinds which I could control with a remote control. These 4 blinds have lithium ion batteries in them that are rechargeable,...
BedRoom Office Space!
Before . AFTER! Months before Isla came, we had been thinking about what to do about the office space we were about to lose. We didn’t actually get our act together to do something...