Category: House Renovations

We got the kitchen renovation project finished yesterday afternoon, a little over an hour before picking the new tenants (and new Yukoners 🙂 ) up at the airport. Nothing like cutting it close! It’s a fairly dramatic change from the old kitchen – brighter, friendly and with a bit...

Crown mouldings are plain and simple a pain in the ass to do, but they really do take a cabinet job up a notch so are worth the effort. I’ve been hoping that it would warm up a bit before I had to clean the shop at the house...

Well it’s almost finished. There’s a long list of stuff to do yet but it’s all comparatively fiddly stuff – more trim and kickplate, crown moulding, hanging 2 more doors, paint and such. We’re really pleased with the result, and hugely pleased that we were able to do it...

Today is “hump day” – from this point on we’ll be getting more and more sun each day. The sun will eventually come up at 10:10 today and at 3:48 it leaves our sky. This has been a surprisingly easy winter for both Cathy and I for some reason...

This is what the setting moon looked like this morning at 11:10 as it set behind Haekel Hill. This shot was taken from the Mt. Sima Road with a 300mm lens, and hasn’t been Photoshopped. There’s a fair bit of ice in the air today, perhaps because of the...

We got the rest of the cabinets for our new kitchen in on Thursday, so were back to work on that project today. We got off to a late start, distracted by the great breakfasts at the airport 🙂 Although we’re running into some bugs, things are coming along...

I actually enjoy the creative process of house renovations, and this morning started a complete rebuild of the kitchen in one of our rental properties. From this angle it doesn’t look like a bad kitchen, but it’s quite worn out. This is the only part of the house that...

Just a quick note before I head to the airport to meet the New Zealand group that I’ll be guiding around the Yukon and Alaska for the next 11 days. This photo shows the deck I’m currently building – I’d hoped to get it finished yesterday, but missed by...

It’s finally starting to feel like Spring, even though the wind still feels like it’s blowing straight off the glaciers. We’re in major renovation mode now. The wood I cut is almost all removed from around the property, though I have a lot of cutting-to-length, splitting and stacking to...

I love our new property. Most mornings, we have over 150 birds feeding at the 2 feeders or close by, and their sound filling the forest is wonderful. Renovations have started on both property and house, though, and seeing if we could get a mountain view without losing any...