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Simple, lustrous, transparent. Glass. I love glass and crystal. I alway have. As a child I would marvel at the beauty of a footed turquoise bon bon dish that used to sit in my Mum's china cabinet (it now sits proudly on my kitchen shelf).& [Read More]

The hot tub is up and running and we love it! This is a Bullfrog spa with jetpaks. The Jetpaks are interchangeable so that you can move your favorite jets to your favorite seat location. The Clusterspray jetpak is in the left in this photo; the Oscil [Read More]

The first wave of lighting fixtures are in. So far, so good. Making a decision about lighting fixtures based on pictures in a catalog or website is a test of your powers of imagination. Seeing the light in a showroom helps, to some degree, but you [Read More]

I've been working 70 hour weeks, so I haven't been doing much on the house. It was a nice day so I sanded these down, and gave them a coat of Sikkens Cetol. I'll probably give them another coat, not today though. They look good for $50 chairs. I thin [Read More]

The house is really starting to look like someone could live there. Richard worked on the kitchen backsplash this week, until we ran short on field tiles by about 2 or 3 (so close!), so we're on hold pending delivery of another box.From KitchenFrom [Read More]

Unfortunately, it is work on one of our rent houses and not our own house   The Alexandria Housing inspector tested the exterior paint on one of our bungalows and it tested positive for lead paint.  Bleh…..  I scraped and painted one wind [Read More]

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So, on Friday while I was in the kitchen making our usual Friday night homemade pizza, I glanced out the window and saw this... pa href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7j7XSgcduE/SPucnqHV90I/AAAAAAAABkY/Dt4rSURmk9I/s1600-h/2008-10-19+001+675x900.JPG"img [Read More]

Wow! What a surprise! I thought for sure the landscapers wouldn't be back to finish the patio area for a week or two - it's only been 2 days! They sealed the gaps between the two seat walls and the deck...br /a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7j7X [Read More]

We have a deck railing! The landscapers showed up a bit before 7:30 this morning and went to work putting the aluminum slats in the deck railing.br /a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7j7XSgcduE/SNhS2NSopyI/AAAAAAAABfw/QtfA1jeG_dY/s1600-h/2008-09-22+ [Read More]

The deck is not yet finished, but it's getting there! All the diagonal boards are down and the ends trimmed so that the border boards could be added...br /a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7j7XSgcduE/SNMMg8gxw4I/AAAAAAAABdY/LkwaFFCRSgM/s1600-h/2008- [Read More]

Yes, we have had our power restored!!!! It was off for 67 hours, almost to the minute.br /br /On Tuesday, the landscapers showed up with a generator so that they could start work on the deck. They finished this much on Tuesday and also put a coat of [Read More]

We spent quite a bit of time staining on the weekend. We re-stained the floor and stairs of the deck on Thursday night. It took a long time to dry, I'd say it's just finished drying today. I guess it's because it's a second coat, so it doesn't soak i [Read More]

I got back to removing the stucco on the back of the house on Saturday. It was raining pretty much all day, so I worked on the section at the back porch. It's probably only a 5'x7' section of wall, but it took me about 6 hours, including pulling all [Read More]

I had a five day long weekend, so we got a lot of little things done on the fence and the deck. I built a jig to put the post caps on with dowels. The post cap fits on one side of the jig, and the post on the other, so the holes line up perfectly. We [Read More]

These are the new Muskoka (Adirondack for Americans) that we got about a month ago. I'm building an outdoor couch out of cedar, but we just didn't want to wait any longer to enjoy the deck. The chairs are made out of some kind of wood, I just know i [Read More]

I put two coats of stain on the sides of the deck today, while the house levelers were here.  What’s left is to add handrails all around and a set of steps off the deck into the yard from the landing at the top of the ramp.  The color of the [Read More]

I noticed a little pile of sawdust under the deck this afternoon."Hmmmm that is odd."Then I looked up. This is what I saw.Bees!!!they have drilled holes in our new deck. Carpenter Bees.Don't they know how hard Chris has worked on this deck! How dare [Read More]

We added a deck safety gate to our front veranda to help keep the kids from falling down the stairs. The gate can also be locked for added security if desired. I was lucky in that I had some railing left over from the old landing that was torn down [Read More]

We added a deck safety gate to our front veranda to help keep the kids from falling down the stairs. The gate can also be locked for added security if desired. I was lucky in that I had some railing left over from the old landing that was torn down [Read More]