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A Growing Obsession (article)
Most readers of this tome are no strangers to renovation. Often it’s the price we have to pay to earn a place in established neighbourhoods, with their old houses and proven, time-tested environments. After years of painstaking renovations to our century home and backyard studio the exterior facelifts were scheduled for 2006. But hold on…over the last four years three condominium projects have sprung up on our property lines as developer’s infilling of our town continues –at the expense of historic vistas and greenery so long taken for-granted
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Dormer 101 (article)
In early times a modest family’s largest capital asset typically was its livestock. Milk and manure were daily benefits but rising body heat was greatly appreciated and encouraged loft living. Single and one and a half storey dwellings of the times were smoky and dimly lit. The solution for the sleeping (fr. “Dormir”) areas was a vertical window or dormer cut into the sloping roof...
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