A slice of shoe heaven: 20 years of Louboutin

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My name is Tash & I’m a shoeaholic. There. I said it. Anyone who knows me well will tell you that this isn’t the most shocking admission I’ve made. And anyone who’s met my mother will tell you that I come by this affliction honestly, lol! So when good friend & Image Consultant Angela of Endless Possibilities Image Consulting (EPIC) invited me to attend the Christian Louboutin exhibition at Toronto’s Design Exchange, you can imagine that it took me all of half a second to accept. Read more

Go go gadget house!

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With the window wait nearly over & the basement prep work complete, we’re finally back to focusing on our plans for the main living space. We thought we’d take a break from all of the heavy construction talk & get a little bit into some of the fun stuff.

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The basement continued: The quest for more headroom

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Things are moving along in the basement. We decided to use a bench-footing technique to gain more headroom. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, “bench-footing” is similar to “underpinning” which are both basically just fancy pants construction words for the process of lowering the basement floor. Read more

Switching focus: Planning the basement

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In our last post I mentioned that we’ve been biding our time until the windows arrive. As you know, up until now, we’ve primarily been focusing our construction efforts on the main living space of the house. But now that we’ve got a little time to burn, we’re switching our focus to the basement. Read more

Window waiting woes…

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You might have noticed things on the construction front have come to a bit of a standstill lately. Well they haven’t entirely – we’ve merely switched our focus from the main area of the house to another. More on that in a bit – but first here are a few of the lessons we’ve learned in the last several weeks: Read more