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House tour: Rambling Renovator's DIY Toronto home
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House tour: Rambling Renovator's DIY Toronto home
The story of one creative couple, their power tools and their adventures transforming their house into a home.
A reciprocating saw is not what you’d expect to find on a bridal registry. But Jennifer Flores and Sean Stanwick had a specific plan for their wedding booty. Shortly after the couple married in 2007, they purchased a modest 1950s home in midtown Toronto. It was boxy with a red brick exterior and was owned by an older woman who shared the space with her cats. Most notably, the interior was blanketed in pink shag carpeting, including an upstairs bathroom.
Most people would’ve taken one look at the sea of Pepto Bismol and ran, but not these two: “We saw the house as a laboratory we could experiment in,” says Jennifer, the perky design blogger behind Rambling Renovators – a site that gets 4,000 readers a day and more than 100,000 page views a month. Sean, an architect, is the muscle behind many of the couple’s DIY projects at home. “I design, he builds – it’s a perfect match,” says Jennifer. “When we got married, we put a lot of power tools on our wedding registry. When we moved from our condo, we got to try them out,” she says with genuine excitement, which explains the picture-perfect DIY wainscotting in the dining room and nearby marble fireplace surround installed by Sean.
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