Posted in Fredericton, New Brunswick, home improvement, home ownership, home reno, reno, renovations on May 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Yes, this use to look like this. The kitchen is now considerably different, as it a good deal of the house.
It’s not complete, however. There are some niggling things remaining. Hopefully they’ll be completed early next week. (Although the “backsplash” stuff has to wait at least a week to get the tile in, then [...]
Posted in Fredericton, New Brunswick, home improvement, home reno, reno, renovations on April 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
The reno project is now well underway and, as is to be expected, there is the odd blip. I’m thinking here particularly of the one where the electrician guy somehow disconnected the power to my furnace.
Yes, I’m freezing my ass off.
Fortunately, the weather has been great - nice and warm, at least during the [...]
Posted in Fredericton, New Brunswick, home improvement, home reno, reno on April 19th, 2007 No Comments »
And so the old kitchen is gone.
In it’s place, enough dust to make Hollywood destructo types envious. When I got home a thin white coating was on everything.
Some of the interesting and very confounding aspects of ripping up an older place are the oddities and problems hidden behind the walls. Like pipes where none were [...]
Posted in Fredericton, New Brunswick, home improvement, home reno, reno on April 16th, 2007 3 Comments »
Beginning tomorrow (or more probably, Wednesday) the deconstruction of my kitchen begins. They tear it up. They tear it down. They put in something new.
They also change all my windows.
So for the next little while I shall be living in dust and confusion. A state of discombobulation. An environment of muddle and mayhem. But they [...]
