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Blog Description: Our goal is to build an environmentally friendly home on it using straw-bale construction. We will drill a well for our water, use solar panels to generate electricity, grow our own vegetables, and use passive solar heating plus a log burner for heating.
Blog Description: After selling both house and cottage in Ontario we are moving to New Brunswick (May 23rd) to a VERY tiny 1920s Cape Cod cottage in a small fishing village. Desperately in need of a total renovation ...this will be my 3rd and my husband's first...let the t
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Canada
Cape Cod Cottage
New Brunswick
St Martins
total renovation
Blog Description: "Modern Pre-Industrial Living!" We've bought a 100-year-old farm house on 63 acres on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and we are going through the motions of renovating on a miniscule budget, generating our own power, and trying to make a living from home.
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acreage
Canada
farm house
farmhouse
fields
green
pei
prince edward island
renovations
rural
small budget
small house
wind power
Blog Description: Tracing the adventures of a newly-wed architecture & design-inclined couple as they undertake a renovation of their first home in Toronto.
Blog Description: I'm just a regular guy who's building his first house. I've done lots of bits 'n pieces before, but never built a whole house. The house is located in the Kootenay Mountains in BC, Canada.
Blog Description: No regrets...In December of 2004, my wife and I bought an 1871 semi-detached brick victorian in Strathroy, Ontario. What started as a temporary 'starter' home, has blossomed into a long term commitment to bring our little home back to its former glory.
Blog Description: Chronicles of my ongoing home renovations of a 1990 two- story home.
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1990s
2 storey
Budget
build
building
Canada
cottage decor
cottage decorating
DIY
Fireplace
front porch
home improvement
Ontario
painting
porch
remodeling
renovation
small budget
Blog Description: My DH and I are bulding our own log cabin . We are trying to do it all ourselves with as little money as possible. We must be crazy.
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Canada
Log Cabin
owner builder
Quebec
Blog Description: We've got the seven year itch...after owning lakefront property in Northwestern Ontario, we're finally going to build a cabin
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cabin
Canada
new construction
Ontario
Blog Description: Adding the wrap-around porch back to our 100+ year old house - and getting distracted with MANY other jobs along the way.
Blog Description: The renovation of a house that is 50?? years old. Doing the work myself, and as economically as possible.
Blog Description: Crowbar Manor: Unfortunately I found this website a week before we were to list our house for sale. We hate to leave our little Queen Anne cottage. We want to leave the city & move to a quieter slice of life.
Blog Description: Barnbrook's Hand Hewn Log Home The barnbrooks's build a hand hewn log home on Sheridan Lake, BC. We hope you enjoy all our moments from the ridiculous, to the take your breath away, to the ohmygod, to the we did it! http://barniesloghome
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British Columbia
Canada
lake
log home
Blog Description: The trials and tribulations of fixing up / maintaining our 1898 Yellow Brick--and some unrelated musings.
Blog Description: Not long into the joyous ride that is home ownership, it has become apparent that our old house had been keeping some secrets from us. This is our story of how we built a new "greener" home.
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Canada
green building
Toronto
Blog Description: Witness our ongoing struggle to restore our crumbling Victorian dream house. An 1880 brick Gothic/Victorian/Italianate located in Brockville Ontario, Canada.
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1880
Canada
gothic
historic
Italianate
Ontario
preservation
restoration
slate
upper canada
Victorian
Blog Description: A slightly retro gal, her slightly retro husband, and their adventures fixing up a midcentury modern 1961 suburban backsplit so they can relax and have a martini...or two.
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1950's
1950s
1960's
1960s
atomic ranch
backsplit
california modern
Canada
Ranch
rat pack
suburban
Toronto
Blog Description: On November 16th, 2005 we moved into this wonderful older cape cod. Hard to believe, but a house built in 1970 is almost considered vintage! My blog is an online journal of my progress since we moved in.
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1970
1970's cape cod
2 storey
Budget
Canada
Cape Cod
homeschooling
renovate
Blog Description: The restoration of an old farmhouse in central New Brunswick Canada