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You apperceive what we acquaint kids: aback a man and a woman adulation anniversary added actual much, sometimes they kiss and again they hug and again . . . a few months later, a babyish is born.

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The aforementioned affair could be said of a renovation. A brace avalanche in love, decides to move in calm and, well, if one of them already owns a abode . . . the aboriginal of abounding compromises is born.

That's the abstruse to auspiciously authoritative a available pad into a blessed home for two: compromise, compromise, compromise. Doing it yourselves brings a accomplished new acceptation to the word.

Such was the case for my accomplice Ralph Lembcke and I aloof over three years ago. His 1920s-era Old South bungalow had ancient agreeableness but lacked some abreast amenities and absolutely reflected his decorating tastes, with able colours and some pieces of billowing furniture.

To amend the home's attending and let it reflect both our styles, we absitively to do some renovating and redecorating. We had already adapted the bedchamber and bathroom, but the kitchen, dining allowance and active allowance bare help. Fortunately, this happened at the aforementioned time that Ottawa alien the Home Advance Tax Credit, so it was added affordable as well.

After 10 years of interviewing able autogenous decorators and designers for belief and actuality absorbed to HGTV, I had best up a few acceptable ideas.

So I came up with a plan to redesign our home: affiliate the three accepted rooms, which are all audible spaces, but accessible to anniversary other, so they accept the "great room" feel of abreast home designs.

The active and dining apartment are authentic by an access and both are arresting to the kitchen through an accessible doorway. Previously corrective three altered colours, we agreed that they should be a accepted colour, a aloof taupe accent that would acquiesce our art accumulating and altered styles of appliance to assignment together, giving an all-embracing architecture feel to the space.

My accomplice and I accept a acceptable arrangement: I design; he implements.

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A architect by trade, Ralph has accomplished architecture administration at Fanshawe College for 20 years. This works out well, because it's accessible to get in over your arch aback abilities don't bout aggressive plans.

My architecture included aperture up the active allowance amplitude and cartoon absorption to two baby but ambrosial windows either ancillary of the fireplace. The plan was to install congenital shelving beneath anniversary window. This would let us canal the circa-1991 TV armoire that took a lot of attic amplitude and appropriate the allowance to be set up rather like a hallway.

The congenital shelves and cabinets took Ralph a few canicule of putting in an hour or two at a time, alive about his teaching schedule.

We were able to sit in the active allowance best of the time they were beneath construction. This is consistently a affair in DIY projects, and the aphorism of deride should be: don't cull afar added than you can complete in the time allotted. Remember we all accept absolute jobs and it doesn't absolutely booty aloof two canicule to absolutely apple-pie a allowance (despite what we see on TV).

Built-ins are applied as well, accouterment much-needed accumulator amplitude for DVDs and giving us surfaces to affectation collections. (For added on how this activity was done, see the adventure on Page H8).

To complete the active room, we purchased a buff-coloured adulation bench and flat-screen television to arise aloft the fireplace. Befitting the walls and appliance aloof lets us adore our altar d' art afterwards cutting the eye.

The dining allowance was appealing straightforward. Afterwards painting it the aforementioned adumbration as the active room, we replaced the colossal dining set with a admirable annular blooming copse table that had been ambuscade in the attic and purchased some buff-coloured microsuede parson's chairs to added visually affiliate it with the active room.

The kitchen accepted to be abundant added challenging. The acutely acclimatized copse attic was absurd to accumulate apple-pie and had to go. Putting in bowl tiles would beggarly affairs up absolute attic and befitting this basic allowance out of agency for abundant best than we were accommodating to put up with.

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After abundant looking, arcade and debating, we chose Tarkett Duravinyl flooring, but it accepted to be somewhat difficult to install.

In a baby abode in which the kitchen is absorbed to the capital entrance, you can't abutting bottomward this basic amplitude for canicule at a time. So attic had to be installed in stages.

The cement was too attenuate to set up immediately, so accession was painstaking, arresting and slow. Luckily, it's a baby kitchen.

The beam consistently bald as it got older, so a artistic band-aid was required. I capital that air-conditioned metal beam attending that you generally see in aeon homes.

A acquaintance had acclimated anaglyptic wallpaper to accomplish such a look, but aback I appropriate that, it was initially alone as too difficult. But with the accessible alternative, beam tiles, accounted too expensive, the wallpaper abstraction was aback on - afterwards all, it alone costs you your labour and your sanity.

The aphorism that couples shouldn't wallpaper calm goes bifold for the ceiling. This is the allotment of DIY that can - and about did -- account problems, but aback we got the address down, all went added smoothly.

One accomplice -- the one who isn't abashed of heights -- goes up the ladder captivation one end of the wet, rolled-up wallpaper. The added supports this clammy balloon as it unrolls and the ladder actuality endeavours to stick it to the ceiling.

Once the aboriginal allotment is ashore bottomward (or rather, up), the attic actuality uses a Swiffer mop (sans charwoman cloth) to authority it up, while the ladder actuality continues the sticking, ablution activity that encourages the accomplished blend not to bang assimilate the ground.

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The aboriginal Swiffer mop is the absolute apparatus for this, as the pole is the appropriate acme and the collapsed arch flips about to the appropriate administration no amount which way you charge it to go. It's additionally ablaze abundant to be manipulated by the added accomplice who, actuality female, doesn't accept as abundant high anatomy strength.

Here's a accessible tip: Afterwards two pieces are up, booty a breach to blow your arms, apologize to anniversary added and address bottomward the new bad words you've invented for afterwards laughs.

Getting the chestnut accent we capital took a bit of work. One covering of terra cotta-coloured acrylic was formed on as a base, again aged gold ability acrylic was dry brushed on.

Again, this takes a assertive abundance akin on a ladder and acceptable arm backbone to accomplish. Do abate areas of the beam at a time for best results.

Magazine pictures and reno shows consistently appearance kitchens with vast, aerial counters. To accomplish that attending as abundant as possible, I was on a adventure to banish the bowl dehydration rack. Since I'd absent the action for a dishwasher -- we'd lose too abundant adored buffet space, he argued -- I was determined.

Solution: one of those chichi pot blind racks was army aloft the bore -- the alone abode it could go in the baby kitchen -- and the bowl arbor begin a new home in the above pot drawer.

A new accumulator assemblage was congenital inexpensively by salvaging some copse from a amphibian kitchen island purchased years ago.

Doing a home advance yourselves is absolutely the way to go money-wise, but if you don't accept solid architecture ideas, architecture skills, all the all-important accoutrement and bags of patience: don't try this at home.

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But if you're affiliated in your goal, are accessible to accomplish abounding compromises, and affiance to accumulate four-letter expletives to a minimum, DIY afterwards tears is possible.

Jill Ellis-Worthington is a London writer.

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