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Tin Ceiling going up this weekend

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Our renovations are back on!

We have two good friends coming to our house from out of town this weekend. They’ll arrive on Friday. They are coming to help us finally put up our tin ceiling!

We purchased the tin ceiling tiles three years ago when we started renovating our living room and dining room area by knocking down some walls, and venetian plastering the walls. Now we’ll be working on getting the majority of the ceiling tiles up.

I’m excited! I’m finally going to see what the rooms look like with their new ceiling.

We’ll have to get a case of beer to keep the guys hydrated. (yes I know beer actually dehydrates, but most men don’t seem to realize that) My husband also wants to have a bbq but with the weather being so cold now I’m not so sure about that. We’ll see.

Once the ceiling is finally finished we just need to put the baseboards on, figure out what kind of molding will look nice with the tin ceiling and also decide what kind of wall to put up between the basement stairs and the dining room.

At that point all of the work we’ve started will be finished. After that we’ll decide whether we’re going to begin renovating the unfinished basement or the kitchen. This house is going to be very nice when we’re done.






Change of plans

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Looks like we have to delay our tin ceiling going in for another week. We were going to have two friends come over for the weekend to help us. Well mainly to help Chris ’cause I’m not up to renovating these days.

Unfortunately our friends can’t come to help this weekend.

I think it’s actually turned out well because as I said I’m not feeling well and I’m not sure that I’d want out of town guest for two days and my living room dining room area’s in an uproar as the ceiling went up.

I am looking forward to it being done, but we’ve waited this long already. What’s one more week?

GTA finder puts renovators and home owners together

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Anyone else in Toronto here? I just found a great site that I’m certain will come in handy at some point. As I’ve said before Chris and I have been renovating our home. Slowly, ever so slowly. I’m pretty fed up with our slow progress and I’ve toyed with the idea of hiring a professional to come in and finish the job for us.

Perhaps this is a sign? I just came across this site that offers Renovator Quotes in Toronto. It’s a relatively new service for residents of Toronto. If you re in need of home renovations- sort of like we are – you can just go to the site and fill out a short form where you’ll describe what kind of work you need done.

Once you’ve submitted your information you just need to wait for a short while and soon, you’ll hear back from up to five different contractors or renovators who will offer you quotes and or estimates for your job. While you are waiting you can read articles on their site that have tips on renovating, and there’s even a Do it yourself section where you can get some tips on things you can do, and perhaps what you should leave in the hands of the contractors.

You’ll be able to find people that do renovation work, Roofers, workers who specialize in heating and air conditioning and of course painters too.

I’m really happy to have found a site that offers a service like this for the Toronto and GTA area. You never know, I may just call them soon and get some quotes if we don’t get back to work on our own reno plans ourselves.

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