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Square wall panels
One of our first projects of the season is finally here to be shared. This accent wall in our living room was planned since we finished the dining room/fireplace makeover, and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it, since that wall behind the sofa was the last beige wall on the main floor and it was hurting our eyes..rsrsrs I didn’t want to just paint in another colour and put a picture frame on it. Nothing wrong with that, but that wall was asking for something more special. I can’t remember where I got the square panels idea from, but one afternoon, Alice and I took a trip…
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Profession | No more Architect
Since arriving in this beautiful icy country or since the plans to come here are no longer that great cloud of uncertainty, I have difficulty saying what I do /what is my profession. In context, for those who do not know, that potentially creative individual who studied 5+ years on architecture (and in my case, also urbanism), can not call himself as such, in Canadian lands. And that the diploma is not worth here! (first thing that goes through the head and is the pure truth). I must have explained here on the blog, but you can understand why things are as they are. You go there and study reinforced…
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DIY – Entry Renovation – Part II
Baseboards have yet to be sanded and painted, quarter rounds are yet to be cut, painted and installed, it's far from the finish line, but yet, the powder room is totally usable and looks quite different from just a few weeks ago. But below, I put together the main selection we made for the bathroom. All, I must add, are a combination of cost effective and good/clean design products. Even if I had no budget limit for this project, I probably would have selected similar products, if not the same ones. I just like the idea of being able to transform a room (respecting my design ideas) for as little…
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DIY – Entry renovation – Part I
Next on our list of projects was the entrance and powder room. Back in the end of last year, I found a good sale on porcelain tiles, in one of my many visits to the hardware store. So the project began, but not exactly. Lol Well, after going to the process of removing and replacing tiles on the fireplace, we knew that a lot of work would be involved in this area, not just because of the square footage and cut's complexity, but also for the lack of time to actually do it. We waited until February to finally decided we had to get some help if we wanted this…
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DIY | Dining room transformation – Final
Tcharammmmm!! BEFORE pictures were taken by a professional photographer and with wide angle lens – it looks much bigger 🙂 AFTER Finally, here’s the final photos for our dining room transformation. There’s a few finishing touches yet to be completed in this room, aka custom bench on the bay window, removal of the railing between the dining and living rooms and install crown moulding and so on, but we are happy with the results for now. If you missed the other posts for this project, here they are: Part I and Part II. In summary, these are the things we’ve done to this room: paint, replace tiles around fireplace, paint…
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DIY – Dining room transformation – Part III
Once we replaced the damaged drywall on the fireplace (seen on previous post), the next in our dining room transformation project were the tiles and wooden mantle. I was constantly going to the home improvement store closest to home (a.k.a Home Depot, in this case) and checking the prices of mosaics and tiles to match what I was envisioning for the project. Then Black Friday promotions arrived and I found a mosaic with 75% discount. Big savings, you're very welcome. It was not too far from what was planning for the overall fireplace look, so I managed to find a tile for the hearth to match and finally, be done…
