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A Crock of Schmidt

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Slo Mo Reno – The Paint Job

August 12, 2020 by acrockofschmidt 2 Comments

Here is why I hate fashion and design and anything to do with the overarching beauty industry. The seventies. Someone, or a select group of someones, decided, in the seventies, that brown was an attractive colour and should be plastered on highly visible items like clothing, cars, and houses. These same someones then decided to […]

Filed Under: House Schmidt Tagged With: designer, house, painting, renovations

Slow Mo Reno – Garage Grossness

June 1, 2020 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Two bay, two car garage

If you don’t think it’s possible for a pandemic virus to evolve here, then you’ve never gutted a forty-five-year-old, mouse-infested garage before. Well, I just did. One very well could be gestating within my body as I right this. Our house, particularly the garage, was suspect from the moment we first laid eyes on it. […]

Filed Under: House Schmidt Tagged With: garage, house, mice, renos, water

Slow Mo Reno – Making a Grand Entrance

February 26, 2018 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Entry doors are unique and important parts of a home both functionally and aesthetically.  A really nice door is damn near impossible to take your eyes off of.  They are the first thing people notice about a house and they are often the first thing people touch, typically in a twisting fashion.  Doors come in […]

Filed Under: House Schmidt Tagged With: boobs, carbon, doors, energy, entry, renos, renovations

Slow Mo Reno – Contracting a Sticker Shock

November 9, 2017 by acrockofschmidt 4 Comments

There are two groups of people in Calgary; those that work in the oil industry and those that renovate their homes.  Sure, there are thousands of others who work in service industries and the civil service, but in two years’ time when the NDP is obliterated in the provincial election and the “new” conservatives dial […]

Filed Under: House Schmidt Tagged With: Calgary, contractor, cost, debt, house, money, real estate, renovations

Slow Mo Reno – Designed to Fail

October 16, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

“You talk funny.” In retrospect, I should have shown her the door the moment those three words sprung from her pouty, Greco-Italian mouth like an upscale restaurant hostess’ over-stressed blouse button. I didn’t want to hire an interior designer but I felt obliged to do so.  Considering the money we were willing ourselves to spend, […]

Filed Under: House Schmidt Tagged With: budget, designer, interior design, renos, renovations

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