Home work

"What's up with the house?" Every Tom, Dick and Harriet have been asking, so here's the up-to-date deelio with where we're at on the reno front. Nothing too picture worthy unfortunately, though lots of behind the scenes stuff has been happening to move everything forward.

Cera Stone, our fab contractors, have had the electricians in to completely re-wire the house (we had aluminum wire which had been crazily jacked around in a previous reno), so there have been tons of decisions on lighting (where to put the pot lights), switches, outlets and phone and cable. I was hoping for an elegant solution for oullets in the master bathroom, since I'd like them hidden in cabinetry, so we'll see how we do with that. The re-wiring is almost done and is waiting on construction to start before it can be completely finished.

On the 'major' side of things we've had the architect in to draw up plans for the main floor since we want to, umm, remove all supporting walls. That means beams, baby. One huge steel one and perhaps two wood ones tied in, all concealed in the ceiling (we'll lose about a 3/4"). Once the plans are in with the City we'll be waiting on permits to get on that stuff (more picture-worthy for sure!).

So, we're pretty much on-schedule - But, will we be cracking open the Veuve on New Years in the new place?

To take a look at all the before shots on the house click here, and to check out all the story so far on the reno click here.