The kitchen ! Heart of the Home ! It is a challenge to design a kitchen when you don’t yet really know how the house is going to look when a bunch of walls come down, and what the room … Continue reading Monday House, Allen Key Kitchen by IKEA
At the end of last week, all the old pine floors had been removed from the main level. The upstairs already had a new subfloor, and now it was the turn for the main floor. Bill has a stand up … Continue reading Monday House, week 19 , floors, plugs, tile
While Mr and Mrs Monday are feeling decision-overload in the Never Ending Renovation, us first-of-the-week visitors will notice some progress. The three coats of plaster mud have been applied to all the walls joints and screws. Each coat was sanded … Continue reading Monday House, week 16, PrimeCheck, first colours
Watching drywall plaster dry is scarcely exciting (pictured above) . Instead, an interview with Mr and Mrs Monday * about their House. Q: Why did you choose this house? A: we already lived in the neighbourhood, and like it. After two apartments … Continue reading Talking to the Mondays
Renovating a house includes the hard costs of buying the house, gutting it, fixing it up. It also includes soft costs, like lawyers, planning permissions, and engineering drawings and building plans. When buying a new house, the soft costs can easily be 1/3 of the final purchase price. Much less so when renovating an older house, but there are still costs. During the last week the project coordinator was pushing paperwork through the permitting process and the home owner was busy trying to lay out electrical drawings. Putting the markings on the plan for plugs is straight forward. (shown … Continue reading Monday House, part v, soft costs, planning work
Down in the basement, some holes were dug for new support posts. The wooden post shown here, possibly as old as the house (114 years) was totally rotted off where it met the floor. The cement floor had been poured … Continue reading Monday House, part iv, structural repairs
The Monday House will be a 14 part series on renovating a typical west side house. We will start with the “before” pictures. The house was constructed in approx 1902, so it is 114 years old. A typical brick (veneer) … Continue reading The Monday House, part i – Before
