West Toronto Junction Home Tour

West Toronto Junction, or just “The Junction“, is unique in stade Toronto “The Good”. The Junction, named for the crossing of the Canadian National (CNR) and the Canadian Pacific (CPR) railways, was a booming prosperous late 1890s town with businesses breaking the bulk of the railway, lumber yards, stock yards, a flour mill, a foundry, [...]

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Custom Milled Storm Windows: The Real Value in Old Windows

Old windows are so worth saving and so much a part of a house’s style and character.
Unfortunately, many old houses have lost their windows after manufacturers claimed thermopaned windows offered such superior
energy effeciency. Civil engineers from the University of Vermont, The Vermont Energy Investment Corp., and the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory [...]

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Installing an Antique Mortise Lock

I caught a bit of luck in that the POs (Previous Owners) did not remove the antique pine front door and replace it with a Big Box pre-hung door. Of course the door was layered in paint and the original antique mortise lock was replaced with a typical off-the shelf lock for a bored-door.  This [...]

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Why Blog your House

Knowing the style of the house and how to keep that character is not easy for someone making the transition from apartment or condo living.
Assuming they care, people with old houses are forced onto a learning curve that can be very confusing. It is easy to tell which neighbours care about getting an old house [...]

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