Renovations

So it’s been a while, we received an invite in the mail from the City letting us know that we will be presented with a historical designation plaque for the home during Heritage Week later this month and it reminded me I really should update the site. Working in IT I thought it would be fun to move the site from the web host it was currently on and onto a server in the home, so yes this site is actually being run from the home. At some point this summer I want to throw up a web cam in the cupola focusing on the view from there for people to visit.

A lot of work has been done on the home, I will add some pictures at some point, the kitchen has been moved to it’s new home, the former kitchen changed to an informal dining room. The first level (and second level hallway) floors have been stripped, repaired and refinished, new bathrooms installed, new ceilings on the first floor in both parlours (they had holes and were badly water damaged). Brickwork re-pointed and repaired, the carriage house resided, new decks on both sides. Honestly I’ve lost track with all the work we’ve done, and there is more on the way. A couple of before and after shots from outside for now.

So the driveway has gone in, I’m really happy with the way it turned out. We’ve had a bunch of comments from people walking past the house already complementing us on it so in turn have to compliment (and recommend) Marcus and his team at Steele Contracting for the really great job they did. Picture below of its current state, we’re going to have a landscaper in shortly to fix the landscaping around the driveway so we’ll post the final pictures of that that when it’s done. For now here is where we are in the process:

And with that the major renovations begin, I’ll probably ended up tracking it by project as they go along. The contractor that is doing the bulk of the work started today and decided to begin the process by rebuilding two decks, one on either side of the home. First one up is this disaster:

The gallery was not found!

The deck is going in over the next day or two, we have the stone masons coming in this weekend and they’ll be repairing the brickwork along that back wall (along with all the brick work that needs it on the whole home). That area is off the new kitchen that has a nice view of the small fruit orchard we have in the back so it will be a nice place to sit and have a meal once it’s done 🙂 That’s it for now… Wish us luck!