Every house has its story. What's yours?

After a very long period of start/stop I can finally declare my small upstairs bathroom to be complete. We completely renovated the downstairs of our house last year so we decided to go ahead and replace the pipes to the upstairs bathroom as well (making it non-functional in the process).

Around November of last year I began the process of strengthening/leveling the floor as well as put drywall up on all the existing walls rather than tear them out.    » read more »

I have a question about how things have been done in your house in relation to door mouldings and wall paper. I live in an old house which has a number of rooms in which many layers of wallpaper have been cast up over the year. Of course this is very voticeable wher the wallpaper meets the door moulding (which are probably as old as the first layer of wallpaper from way back when). Thus the wallpaper has been cut against the moulding (5-7 mm) rather than where the base of the moulding meets the wall. Fair enough with so many layers of wallpaper, but a bit tacky if you ask me.    » read more »

There it is-one of the primary conundrums with which one is inevitably encountered on moving into a new house or apartment: which pictures to hang, and where?

There's a huge threshold to be crossed before one can bring oneself to the dramatic moment of actually digging up a hammer and poking a hole into the otherwise virginal (at least, in that particular spot) paint or wallpaper. How can one be sure the picture, poster or painting is going to look good there? How can you know before you actually make that leap, damage the wall, and hang the damn thing up?    » read more »