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Christina Hall’s Clients Endured a 3-Month Renovation Nightmare

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Renovations always come with risks. On a new episode of HGTV’s Christina on the CoastChristina Hall’s clients faced some pretty brutal issues—including one that required them to live in their Huntington Beach, California, home with a partially open roof for three months.

The nearly year-long renovation involved transforming the homeowners’ closet and the crawl space behind it into a big primary bathroom. That required raising the ceiling and redoing the roof to increase the square footage. Mike Rose, Christina’s go-to contractor on the show, explained that a mistake in the plans was going to create what he estimated to be a two-week delay. It ended up being…three months.

It turned out the engineer the team was using for the project assumed the floor joists ran in one direction. In reality, they went a different way. Because of that, Rose’s team had planned the framing inaccurately. They had to stop

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Ree Drummond Reveals Bold Style Choices Amid New Renovation Project: ‘You Only Live Once’

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Style mavens! Ree Drummond shared a new decorating hack on Instagram on Tuesday, July 11, after revealing she was renovating her office.

“The dogs will get mud all over this but you only live once,” the Food Network personality captioned a photo of her new space in her Instagram stories.

To add a pop of color to the room, Ree, 54, decided to install geometric floor tiles that perfectly reflect her vibrant personality. The red, blue and yellow hues of the tiles are stunning.

Using primary colors in her projects has definitely become one of Ree’s design signatures since rising to fame on TV in 2011 with The Pioneer Woman. She previously launched a collection of homeware sold at multiple retailers that fuses her love for primary colors and floral patterns.

Ree Drummond shows off new floors in a new home

Ree Drummond shows off new floors in a new home

The chef also shared a glimpse of her

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Kingston Youth Shelter looks to help with renovation costs

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Published July 11, 2023 • Last updated 1 week ago • 2 minute read

Kingston Youth Shelter executive director Jay Nowak
Kingston Youth Shelter executive director Jay Nowak stands in a room of sleeping pods at the shelter’s new location on Nelson Street in Kingston, Ont. on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Elliot Ferguson/The Whig-Standard/Postmedia Network Photo by Elliot Ferguson /The Whig Standard

KINGSTON — Staff and organizers at the Kingston Youth Shelter are asking the public for help raising the last portion of their $1.5 million fundraising target.

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The shelter bought a new location

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Kingdom Hall renovation underway in Glasgow

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GLASGOW — A unique construction project is an underway at the Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall in Glasgow. Volunteers, including some who drove several hours from out of state, are helping complete the month-long renovation of the building.

The project is also highlighting the role of women in construction.

Husband and wife Gavin and Ellie Oakman are helping install insulation in the Kingdom Hall. They made a roughly eight and a half hour drive from Laramie, Wyoming to Glasgow to do the work.

GAVIN & ELLIE OAKMAN

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“We enjoy the work. Even though some of the tasks aren’t the most enjoyable, it’s fun to be helping on a Kingdom Hall, on a place of worship like this. It’s so enjoyable being with our friends. Even though most of the people here we don’t know, we leave at the end of the week having friends that we’re going to stay in touch with,” Gavin

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What a 250K euro renovation looks like

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Within five years of moving to Europe, businessman Douglas Loewe “fell in love” with Barcelona, ​​he said.

He decided to buy a home there, spending about 500,000 euros ($545,000) to purchase an apartment in the city’s famous Eixample neighborhood in 1999, the senior operating partner at Macquarie said.

But by 2017, Loewe felt the two-bedroom penthouse needed an overhaul.

The main living area of ​​Loewe’s apartment in Barcelona, ​​called Aribau 133 Sobre Atic.

Douglas Loewe

Within a year, he had transformed the “deteriorated” two-bedroom penthouse into a three-bedroom space that is now worth 1.7 million to 2 million euros, Loewe said — more than double the amount he spent to purchase and renovate the property.

Renovating the apartment

Loewe had renovated the apartment once before, but “it needed refreshing on a lot of levels” after almost 20 years, he said.

He hired Matthew Coe, founder of the property investment firm

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I Spent More on My House Renovations Because of Inflation: Here Are My Regrets

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skynesher / Getty Images

During the COVID-19 pandemic, countless people looked around their homes and contemplated the upgrades or improvements that they should make. But few companies were fully operational during the height of the virus, meaning that these renovations had to wait. Fast forward to last year, and eager homeowners were ready to take the plunge on their projects.

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Unfortunately, the pandemic did more than just make us want to revamp our homestead; it also brought record-high inflation, labor shortages and supply chain issues — a perfect storm in the construction industry. The cost of home improvements has skyrocketed, but undeterred or unaware of the price increase, many homeowners have charged forward with their much-awaited projects.

According to our research, an astonishing 88% of people

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Renovating an Oceanfront House in Marblehead, Massachusetts

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David and Davin Wedel were living in a Boston condominium in 2016, awaiting the birth of their twin daughters, when it occurred to them that they might need more space for their family. So they started casually looking at houses outside the city, just to get a feel for the market.

Once they visited an oceanfront house in Marblehead, Mass., however, things began moving quickly.

“We weren’t really looking. We were supposed to be educating ourselves,” said David, 45, who previously worked for tech start-ups but is now focused on raising their children. “We got out of the car at this property, and I looked at Davin a little sheepishly and said, ‘I’m afraid to tell you, but I think I’m going to like this place.’”

Perched on a rocky bluff, the 1930s neo-Georgian house has a breathtaking view of the ocean, with a 270-degree sweep offering sightlines up and

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Glenbow Museum asks the city for another $18M as renovation costs soar

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The city is being asked to contribute millions of dollars to help cover the cost escalation on the major renovation of the Glenbow Museum.

The museum has asked the city for another $18 million.

Work is already well underway on the renovation of the Glenbow Museum, which will see it revamped with an entirely new look and modern features inside and out.

The president and CEO Nicholas Bell says the project’s budget is increasing though due to the rising cost of construction materials. Originally pegged to cost about $120 million, it’s now estimated that the project will come in at about $130 million.

An interior view of the now-gutted Glenbow Museum as renovation work continues.
Glenbow Museum CEO Nicholas Bell says the cost of transforming the building has increased in part because of inflation. (Scott Dippel/CBC)

“It’s the inflation we see across materials, it’s the inflation that we’ve seen essentially in everything that we would ever need to procure to change this

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The Allianz Arena will be renovated in the off-season

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The magnificent Allianz Arena is home to Bayern Munich, one of the biggest teams in Germany and the world. Opened in 2005, the Allianz became known for its illuminating exterior, the first of its kind in the world, and has the second-largest capacity in the whole of Germany (behind Borussia Dortmund’s Westfalenstadion / Signal Iduna Park). The last renovation that our stadium underwent was in 2015 which ruled that the limit was 75,000 fans for league games and 70,000 for other competitions (Champions League and cup competitions), but now it looks like the stadium is set for an increase in capacity:

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How a school renovation in Belgium turned into a top class co-built community | Interiors

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On her first visit, 15 years ago, to the abandoned school complex that was to become her family home, Veva van Sloun was in for a surprise. Located in a busy area of ​​Ghent, the old school was shielded from the main street by bamboo planting. Beyond the white gate she discovered it had a hidden courtyard garden, not to mention its own chapel. The site was much bigger than she anticipated. “It was so dilapidated that when I leaned against the wall some of the bricks crumbled and fell off,” she recalls.

Undeterred, she decided to take on the renovation. The chapel had been extended to house the school kitchen and gymnasium. These elements were removed to restore the chapel as a separate entity, giving van Sloun, her husband, Jan, and their children more space. “We had to take off the roof and rebuild it brick by brick

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