Laneway Home in Vancouver Well, most of the laneway home has been framed and we are starting on the roof now. As we said in our last post, it will be tricky to frame, but magnificent to live in! I have designed it to maximize the interior space and far outperform the usual way it […] Read more »
laneway home in Vancouver updates March 21
laneway home in Vancouver Well here it is almost three weeks later and all the drainage is finished, some landscaping done (with the bobcat), and the walls and floors of the laneway home are framed in (see pictures below). The weather has been on and off with some nice days, and some rainy ones. It’s […] Read more »
laneway home Vancouver updates March 1st
Laneway Home in Vancouver After having some trouble getting a Vancouver drainage contractor in to dig the sewer trench for the laneway home to the front of the property, I decided to do it myself. I rented a Bobcat E35 and hit the controls. It is not hard to get to know, and after about […] Read more »
Work In Progress, December 2012
Picture 1: I took the first picture to show to show you what it looks like before we do anything. It is to be ‘dressed’ in a smooth paper-backed plywood called ‘Crezone’. When we are done it will be painted and be all smooth looking as if it were drywall, but with extra details. All […] Read more »