Renovation Road was supposed to stay confined to our house’s first floor. But there’s that second-floor shower too short for tall people …
Category: Renovations and design
Inspirational art
There are other forces driving our colour choices that will be the focal point in the rooms they grace: paintings by my former colleagues Anda Kubis and Luke Painter.
Another twist: “This never happens”
It was time for the final-final-final measure and sign off for our kitchen design.
The twists and turns, part 2
As interior wall and ceiling coverings came down at our little Stratford house, our design, and work to-do list, morphed hourly.
The twists and turns on Renovation Road: part 1
The Problem Child room made a bad kitchen, which set this whole reno in motion. Then we discovered it made an equally bad living room.
Colouring our palette
A cloth table runner bought to cover a water stain on a bookshelf has inspired our renovation.
Peak teak
Now that we were planning to keep the teak, its aesthetic is driving many of our renovation decisions.
Our renovation retreat
The first thing we agreed upon, when we decided to renovate: We weren’t going to live in the house while the bulk of the work was going on.