1568 Search Results for "installing shingles properly"
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How to go from average to stunning
Design pros offer tips for your home </strong>
From the colours of the season to the charms, and challenges, of small spaces, take your home from average to stunning with a few tips from design professionals Multi taskers The open-plan interiors of today's homes, attached and detached, tear down the . . .
Posted: 2009-11-21
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How to renovate a bathroom
Dear Marc: While designing my bathroom, I have decided to change my fixtures. The ones I currently have are outdated. What do you suggest for a nice punch of colour and style for my new bathroom design? -- Brittany Dear Brittany: In . . .
Posted: 2011-06-18
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Walk this way
New and imaginative pavers for your outdoor living space
Paving stones, first used by the Romans in third century BC, have come a long way. Today’s consumer can choose from a greater range of styles and materials than ever before from precast concrete products that mimic hardwood flooring to . . .
Posted: 2016-06-25
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Basement telepost adjustment best left for the pros
QUESTION: I came across an article you wrote for the Winnipeg Free Press about tightening teleposts, so I thought that I would send you a question. I have two types of teleposts in my basement. One type has no visible . . .
Posted: 2016-02-20
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ASK THE INSPECTOR: Stairway certainly doesn't lead to heaven
QUESTION: I am hoping that you may be able to provide an opinion on this problem. My house is just seven years' old and I have been trying to contact the builder over the last few weeks, but they will . . .
Posted: 2012-04-28
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The challenge of small gardens
Postage-stamp-sized plot can be as tough as a big one
Be careful what you wish for. Years ago when I lived in Vancouver, I had a lot measuring 33 feet by 120 feet. It felt like a postage stamp. In less than a year, I ran out of space to garden . . .
Posted: 2009-07-19
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Five simple steps to no-cost redecorating
Proper placement of art is critical
It's not what you have, it's how you use it, insists one of Canada's leading redesign gurus. "With all of this crisis in the financial markets and everything that is happening, people do not have a lot of money to throw . . .
Posted: 2008-11-02
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Oriental Pearl
Quebec architect designs home in strict traditions of Japan
Nestled on the shoreline of the Lake of Two Mountains in Quebec is a property that looks as though it could have been plucked right out of Japan and placed on Ile-Bizard. The house and grounds are the dream child . . .
Posted: 2010-09-18
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Why replace?
For easy update, just give space a new ‘face’
When planning a bathroom upgrade, it is sometimes easiest (in theory) to gut the space completely and remodel the entire room. However, this is often cost-prohibitive. When faced with budgetary concerns for a bathroom reno, my attention always shifts to . . .
Posted: 2025-03-08
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Stairway to HAVEN
Ingenuity needed to install flooring on steps
Sometimes the installation of new flooring “throughout the main floor” involves a few caveats. In this instance, the introduction of a vinyl plank with underpad would continue up the stairs to the second floor, as well as the second-floor . . .
Posted: 2023-06-17