The House

Small bathroom... one and only

U Shaped kitchen.

This 816 sq. ft. bungalow with full basement was built in 1957. The mail floor has a kitchen/dining room, living room, small bedroom, smaller bedroom (now used as an office) and a very small bathroom. It was well built: nice and square with old knot-free fir studding, well fit doors etc. Original windows are vertical sliders with seasonal screens/storms. Walls are 2X4 with paper-backed fiberglass, now significantly settled, and covered inside with 2 layers of 3/8 Gyproc and a thin veneer of plaster. 

 

Living room

The kitchen has been updated sometime in the last 15 years.  The is a faux granite counter and stick built cabinets.  Our plan is to move this space into the basement as our wine room and potential kitchen suite.

The basement was partly finished, maybe 25 or so years ago, with 2X2 frost walls and a thin strip of insulation behind ½ inch drywall. Wiring is copper throughout, but the entire basement is wired into the furnace circuit. The breaker panel has 12 circuits, of which 4 are taken up with the range and the dryer. Laundry is in the basement unfinished area. There is a small existing bedroom with enough space to slither beside the bed... and a rough study area and family room.


Even the stairs to the basement are narrow and steep! There are no front or back hall closets in the house as you can see by the coat hooks.

The lot is narrow – 11 meters wide – and sharply sloped down from front to back and 45.6 meters deep. There’s an original single car garage accessed from the back alley.

 

Side entrance

More living room

Kitchen and back entry

Next installment: The Project