I am a Reluctant Renovator. The gut task as well as redux of my 130-year-old Victorian row in Toronto’s bit Portugal was featured in the October 2003 problem of House & Home, “Diary of a mad Renovator”, as well as after that, I swore I would never do it again. who are those homeowners who surface a house, only to offer it, as well as purchase one more dump since they miss having “a project”? I just can’t go there. as well as so, for a gal who firmly put her reno days behind her, it took something quite great to get me believing seriously about the final frontier: renovating the basement.
And it was this:
Believe it or not, this is a basement, as well as what a beaut — so clean as well as organized, good light, extremely few bulkheads, white as well as crisp however with dark floors. I was on this shoot with professional photographer Michael Graydon in the summertime of 2007 as well as during the program of the shooting day, I started dreaming about my own bit basement as well as what it might be.
Of course, I have so much less to work with:
Small space, low ceilings, strange bulkheads, one bit window like a pinhole video camera letting in a smidge of natural light, you know, pugly, like quite much everybody else’s basement. however if you dream it, the reno will come — I hope.
Do you believe it’s possible to turn this area around?
And without costs a tons of cash?
Photo credits:
1. Michael Graydon
2. Meg Crossley
I am a Reluctant Renovator. The gut task as well as redux of my 130-year-old Victorian row in Toronto’s bit Portugal was featured in the October 2003 problem of House & Home, “Diary of a mad Renovator”, as well as after that, I swore I would never do it again. who are those homeowners who surface a house, only to offer it, as well as purchase one more dump since they miss having “a project”? I just can’t go there. as well as so, for a gal who firmly put her reno days behind her, it took something quite great to get me believing seriously about the final frontier: renovating the basement.
And it was this:
Believe it or not, this is a basement, as well as what a beaut — so clean as well as organized, good light, extremely few bulkheads, white as well as crisp however with dark floors. I was on this shoot with professional photographer Michael Graydon in the summertime of 2007 as well as during the program of the shooting day, I started dreaming about my own bit basement as well as what it might be.
Of course, I have so much less to work with:
Small space, low ceilings, strange bulkheads, one bit window like a pinhole video camera letting in a smidge of natural light, you know, pugly, like quite much everybody else’s basement. however if you dream it, the reno will come — I hope.
Do you believe it’s possible to turn this area around?
And without costs a tons of cash?
Photo credits:
1. Michael Graydon
2. Meg Crossley
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