Apologizes to those who have been lost without my blog but progress has been slowed down since we haven't moved in (nudge nudge wink wink)to our new home. No one has been humourously injured although I fell down the stairs a week ago and bruised my ass but I couldn't in good conscious post that picture. Don't misunderstand, hurting oneself in the pursuit of building our home is unfortunate but wrapping it in humour gives me something interesting to write about. Ross was away golfing in Arizona for a week and "The Units" drove down to Florida for the winter. Christmas has come and gone and the girls have celebrated another round of birthdays. Next week they return to University and Ross and I will start the insane job of cleaning and preparing the old maple floors to re-install in the main room. Wish us luck and patience.
We have assembled our cabinets and made several trips to the dump with our s$#t load of cardboard from all the packing. The slate floors are being installed with the help of Jakey as usual.
The first cabinet is installed. The Ikea system is pretty slick and we have silent closers which I recommend for those who do not use cupboard slamming in their arsenal of domestic negotiation(it will leave you frustrated).
Ross doing the electrical finishing. There was alot of head scratching and naughty words going on during this stage of construction.
The cabinets are almost all installed and the appliances are functional. Yeah!!! We have induction cooking on our stove which is very cool. We are still learning to cook on it...I totally mucked up my butternut squash soup but that could also be caused by my lack of cooking for 5 month on anything but a barbeque.
Again, Jakey helping hang the island light. Some of you may be wondering where Fabbie is and why we haven't employeed her in our construction and some of you may not really care. Well....Fabbie does not care either. She'd rather sleep all day and rest because undoubtedly, Jakey will be chasing her all night long. She is a tormented creature.
A view of our granite countertops...."Blue in the Night". It has a great irridescent cobalt blue fleck on a black/grey base. We were fortunate to have the corner piece cut without a seam. Installed by the Ghana Soduka Kings with the techno/rap cell phone ring. Nevermind...my own personal gaha.
View of the kitchen from the front room. It is still a work in progress.
The front entrance with the slate floors installed and painted.
The love of my life. Okay not really but after six months of doing my laundry in the local laundromat, it is a treat. I do miss the weird and creepy fellow laundromat enthusiast and the weekly blockbuster dvd perusing.
The powder room. Now with a working sink, toilet paper holder, light and mirror.
and of course "the toilet". You all know how I feel about it.
The light fixture in the front entrance...
Originally founded in the city of Windsor in 1864 by the Community of Holy Names of Mary and Jesus, with a few nuns from Montreal. St. Mary's Academy was originally located in downtown Windsor on Ouellette Ave. By the late 1920's the Sisters had an old school building on valuable land. The order sold the building and the land to the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel Corporation, the land is now the site of the Canadian Tunnel Plaza. The original building was demolished in 1929 and the new Academy built in 1928. Designed by a Sister from the order,not an architect, the massive building stood over south Windsor until April 1977. On April 29, the building was imploded to make room for a subdivision. (see website below for more and better quality pictures)
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Ross and I purchased our front entrance hall light from a antique store outside of Windsor this fall. It hung in St. Mary's Academy. These pictures were found during my research of the fixture. We have four more period school house fixtures from various locations in North American to give the renovation some authenticity. Thank you Ebay!
We've chosen to do the ceiling of the kitchen with tongue and groove painted wood to give it the aged country kitchen feel.
This will be the island upper countertop. It is a 16" pine board found in the attic space of the original roof.
A wee look of our living space.
A view of the construction grade staircase stained and painted to give them some jazz.
Although it is still full of boxes and unfinished floors and trim....it's home....and a step up from the trailer....wayyyyy up!!!!
Ross and I purchased our front entrance hall light from a antique store outside of Windsor this fall. It hung in St. Mary's Academy. These pictures were found during my research of the fixture. We have four more period school house fixtures from various locations in North American to give the renovation some authenticity. Thank you Ebay!
We've chosen to do the ceiling of the kitchen with tongue and groove painted wood to give it the aged country kitchen feel.
This will be the island upper countertop. It is a 16" pine board found in the attic space of the original roof.
A wee look of our living space.
A view of the construction grade staircase stained and painted to give them some jazz. 
Although it is still full of boxes and unfinished floors and trim....it's home....and a step up from the trailer....wayyyyy up!!!!
