The study/office on the upper level of this mid-19th century home in St. John’s suffered from a lack of functional shelving. Piles of books were stacked on every surface. A change was needed. The homeowners called Doug Allen of Ulu Cabinetry, who had previously designed their kitchen renovation, to design a solution for the study. […]
Sometimes you just have to do the right thing. For this project, that meant volunteering labour, donating materials, and working together to create an accessible bathroom that would give a wheelchair-bound family member independence in the most private of rooms. Ryan Peyton, owner of Property Projects, along with general manager Kelly McGuire, explain what went […]
“The house is well lived in, which I think is a tribute, really, to the house, because that’s what spaces are for,” says Marie Bishop, of Marie Bishop Interiors. The family room in this house is a well-used room, where the family gathers to watch TV, play games and hang out together. But it was […]
Andrea Rowe is a landscape architect, company owner, award winner and designer of cool outdoor living spaces with roots in Cow Head, on the Northern Peninsula. As a kid surrounded by the mountains of Gros Morne National Park, Andrea grew to love the outdoors. She left that little town to study at Memorial University in […]
This is a 1930s house, and it had many of the things you’d expect from a house of that vintage – a lack of insulation in parts; a small, galley-style kitchen; and a layout that doesn’t quite work with the way we live in our homes today. Sherry-Lynn and her husband, who recently moved back […]
As I’m rifling through designer Krista Power’s colourful samples of whimsical patterns displayed throughout her downtown St. John’s studio, I’m feeling nostalgic. I flash back to my grandmother’s kitchen table where I’m eating homemade bread with molasses, surrounded by a comforting motif of faded floral wallpaper that tactfully, or perhaps tackily, complements the floral chair […]
Ros had always loved old saltbox houses and wanted her own place by the water. She and her husband, Brian, spent a year looking for a house, even contemplating building a new one when they couldn’t find what they wanted. Their wants weren’t unreasonable, really – it had to be an old house, within an hour […]
Originally built in 1976 by Newfoundland and Labrador Housing, this bungalow benefitted from a more recent new home program, giving it new doors, windows, roof and insulation. That was all before Wayne, Kathy and their daughter Lauren bought the house two years ago. It wasn’t the house they were originally looking for, but they’ve made […]
Newspapers are often the best way to tell the age of an old house in Newfoundland. Not for what’s in the newspaper, but for where it’s found. Often, newspapers were used as an insulating barrier, either pasted to the walls like wallpaper or stuffed between the walls. By checking the dates on the pages, one […]
All the world is staging. Maybe if Shakespeare were trying to sell his house while writing As You Like It, we’d have this famous phrase instead. For Megan Callahan, her world is staging, with recent forays into design and renovation. She’s always had an interest in design and interior decorating, but it wasn’t until a […]
