Category: Renovation

HGTV Fans Can’t Get Enough of Sarah Baeumler’s Latest Outfit

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Sarah Baumler is known for her impeccable eye for interior design on shows like Renovation Island, Rock the Block, and Battle on the Beach. But the HGTV star (and jewelry designer!) is making a name as a fashion icon, and her fans are trying to replicate her looks.

Sarah shared a casual selfie poolside at her Caerula Mar resort in the Bahamas. In the photo, she’s wearing a halter-style white tank top paired with matching white shorts with ruffle details at the waist and on the pockets. Her hair is pulled back in a sleek bun, and she’s enjoying a cold beverage in a mason jar. She captioned the post, “That Friday feeling 🤍Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend with the ones they love xxsb.”

As usual, fans left comments like, “I’d love to know so what makes the clothes you wear. You always look so great” and “I love that

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How a $360,000 renovation transformed a Junction shack into a sparkling family home

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Before and After: How a $360,000 renovation transformed a Junction shack into a sparkling family home

Goodbye, muddy floors, ’70s paneling and dilapidated shed. Hello, airy interiors, bespoke cabinets and EV-ready garage

Toronto, Real Estate, Before and After: basement before


The place

A three-plus-one-bedroom, four-bathroom semi in the Junction that just underwent a big-time renovation. It has a separate one-bedroom basement apartment and a new two-car garage with a panel that can support an EV charger.

Thehistory

Gord Harrison, a contractor, initially purchased this 100-year-old property, for $1 million in February of 2021, as a home for his young family. He brought in his friend Shawn Chua, with whom he had partnered on a dozen previous renos, to share the load. But, a year into the job, they discovered a rat’s nest of problems: poor insulation, asbestos and a basement floor that required re-pouring. Harrison needed to recoup costs, so he kiboshed moving in, instead opting to rent

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Framed Love Sign Made of Matchsticks

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This fun and easy project is the perfect way to show your love. With just a few supplies, you can create a stunning framed love token made entirely out of matchsticks. This is a great gift for your significant other or a fun decoration for your own home. This is a unique craft idea, you will love making it and displaying it.

match the love tokens on the table with the topiary

Framed Love Messages

Learn how to make a framed love message out of matchsticks and a wooden frame. This is a great DIY project that is easy and fun for anyone to do. The end result is a very unique and sentimental gift that everyone will love.

If you like this, then I know you’ll love Valentine balloons framed with sparkling hearts, or pretty heart wall art made of pistachios.

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The Hatha House: A West Van renovation achieves outdoor bliss

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When a client asks for a guest house that doubles as a yoga studio, and you don’t just deliver – but build something so seamless it looks like it was always there – well, that’s a reward in itself.

But for the dreamy, yogi-approved outdoor space it created in West Vancouver, the CCI-Fairmile Group has won plenty of acclaim, too. Most recently: a Georgie Award for Best New Small-Scale Home up to 1,000 Square Feet, along with two Homebuilders’ Association of Vancouver award nominations.

It took a whole lot of care and planning to match every angle, peak, column and soffit of the new structure seamlessly with the original – a 2015-built, 6,000-square-foot modern-traditional family home – says CCI-Fairmile Group

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Belmont Park renovation work could bring the Breeders’ Cup to New York in the future

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The home of the third and final leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown is finally getting a major makeover.

A little over a year from now, after it hosted the Belmont Stakes in 2024, Belmont Park is set to undergo a $455 million renovation of everything from the track surface to a new, smaller grandstand more fit for the sport in the modern era.

Once completed, the track should host the best horses in the world for a Breeders’ Cup in the not-too-distant future, but the expected construction timeline raises the question of where the 2025 Belmont will take place. New York Racing Association president and CEO Dave O’Rourke expects a clearer answer on that in the coming months when the project is further along.

The 1 1/2-mile race known as “the test of the champion” has been run before at Aqueduct in Queens, from 1963-67 when Belmont Park was

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How Home Depot’s CEO is navigating the remodeling dip

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The Home Depot deftly navigated the pandemic disruption under former CEO Craig Menear, riding the home improvement boom to annual sales growth in the tens of billions of dollars. Before Menear, who stepped down last year, was Frank Blake, who successfully guided the retailer from 2007 to 2014 through the housing market crisis. In short, both CEOs are tough acts to follow.

Under CEO Ted Decker, appointed last year, sales have edged down after rising 43% to $157 billion between 2019 and 2022, as consumers shift spending back to leisure and away from home improvement. What’s more, home renovations are projected to decline in 2024 after a decade of continuous growth, according to a report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. But Decker says getting Home Depot through this slump is not by any means a turnaround story. Nor does he want to be a “caretaker”

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Quebec to renovate Salon bleu at national assembly

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Quebec’s national assembly hall, known as the Salon bleu, will be extensively renovated with seating reconfigured into a “horseshoe” shape.

The plans were announced Thursday by the Bureau de l’AssemblĂ©e nationale (BAN), consisting of elected representatives from the Coalition Avenir QuĂ©bec government, the Quebec Liberal Party and QuĂ©bec solidaire. The Parti quĂ©bĂ©cois does not have enough members to sit on the BAN.

The current seating arrangement in the Salon bleu is inherited from the British parliamentary tradition. It places the government and the “loyal opposition” face to face.

In 2020, the government House leader, Simon Jolin-Barrette, said he would like to see a “new layout to improve the working climate.”

The assembly’s former president, François Paradis, suggested taking advantage of the renovation work to rearrange the chairs in the hemicycle, like in France, but the idea was quickly dismissed by his successor Nathalie Roy.

“Let’s get down to business: the

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Renovation work concludes on 355 King Street West | Queen’s Gazette

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Much of Queen’s University’s administration is now officially housed at 355 King Street West, with renovations and most relocations to the site now complete. The consolidation of administrative units in the new building will allow the university to free up and renovate more space in the central campus for academic and research-focused purposes.

The university renovated and is occupying three wings of the former St. Mary’s of the Lake Hospital building (areas previously known as the South, East and Sister’s wings). These wings are now home to Financial Services, Investment Services, Internal Audit, Campus Security and Emergency Services, Environmental Health and Safety, Insurance and Risk Management, Strategic Procurement Services, Postal Services, Facilities, and the Office of the Vice-Principal Research.

The university bought the site from Providence Care in 2017, and construction started in 2021. Environmental sustainability was a key consideration in the work that was done. The project adapted the

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ATCO invests in Calgary with renovation of downtown towers

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Published June 07, 2023 • 3 minute read

Rendering of lobby area at renovated ATCO tower in Calgary, for David Parker column.
A rendering shows the new lobby area of ​​909 11th Avenue SW, one of the ATCO towers being renovated in Calgary. Photo by Courtesy, Colliers International /Postmedia Network

Although it’s always great to hear of out-of-province companies showing their confidence in this city with real estate ventures, we too often forget to applaud the local firms who continue to invest here.

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Rustic Craft Stick Home Decor

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Looking for fun and easy DIY projects for kids? This rustic craft stick home decor is perfect! Using only a few simple materials, you can make a cute little house that can be used as a decoration or even a toy. Your kids will love using their creativity to design their own home, and you’ll love the finished product. Not to mention, it’s a great way to recycle some old craft sticks!

blue and green background under painted craft stick house

House of Craft Sticks

This craft stick house is a fun and easy project for kids and adults alike. They can be used for a variety of different purposes, and are easy to make. With a little creativity, you can make a really unique popsicle stick house.

There’s nothing more classic than a craft stick project, and we’ve made many

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