Now that my kitchen remodel is finished, I am liking the space again and I've found my favourite 'morning spot'. This is it. My new window seat with the sepia zebra chairs.  I love how the morning light comes through the shutters and lands on the table. It makes the space feel warm and cozy and I needed 'warm and cozy' this morning after a hectic 3-hour rush all ...

Its taken many weeks of blood, sweat and tears but the kitchen is finally finished. The final piece was the lighting.  This is the 'before' of the lighting in the kitchen. I intentionally kept the picture dark to show the lighting. We considered keeping the fluorescent light and painting the trim around it the same colour as the ceiling. I'm glad we didn't.  We had the recessed lighting installed (there is one in ...

Building a window seat is pretty straight forward. That said from the person who hasn't built one!  Before he got started, Warren need to address the flow of air from the vent in the floor.  Warren build a box to move the flow of the air to the front of the window seat.  This is how it works. He blocked off a part of the box to get the air to ...

Our kitchen is going through a transformation and we've been busy through the Christmas period, trying to get as much done as possible before the big man in the red suit arrived.  Once again, this is the before photo.  This is what it looked like before the granite, backsplash and appliances were put in place and before some of the finishing like the kickboards and above-cabinet molding.  The granite arrived a week before ...

Prime the wall with 2 coats of weatherproofing guard and once dry, run a bead of silicone caulking around the perimeter of the area.  Plan how the tile should look before placing it on the wall.  Mix the thinset so its the consistency of toothpaste.  Smooth a generous layer of the thinset about as large as a single 12x12 tile onto the wall.  Place the 12x12 tile onto the thinset and press it securely ...

As if the fireplace isn't enough work for Warren, next he is going to install our new kitchen cabinets. Before that can be done, the old ones have to be ripped out. Warren is going to do that too.  I have been boxing up the contents of the cabinets and moving the boxes to the basement.  Leaving only the bare necessities.  The new cabinets arrived today.  The old kitchen cabinets are still in the ...