Appliances Installed

After inspecting the stove gas line, water

and electrical hook-ups, the appliances can be installed.

The Sub-Zero fridge fits tightly into the walnut cabinetry.

Sub-Zero fridge, Wolf gas range, fan hood,

and Asko dishwasher are all installed.

Wrangling the heavy Wolf gas range into place.

Engineered White Oak Flooring

Engineered white oak hardwood flooring being laid.

Laying boards on second floor hallway.

Boards are laid parallel to a chalk plumb line.

Installers use a wooden block and hammer

to push the wood into the interlocking joints.

Engineered flooring is glued to the sub-floor.

German engineered white oak flooring is packaged in small bundles.

Carerra Marble

Powder room entryway with vanity and oak panelling.

Powder room sink and faucet with carerra marble counter.

Powder room counter before holes are cut for sink.

View of kitchen with marble installed.

Entrance floor of carerra marble.

Kitchen with counter tops and backsplash installed.

Placing the counter tops and backsplash.

Nudging the heavy sheet of carerra marble into place.

Off-loading the counter top sheet cut in one piece 11'6" in length.

Marble arrives for kitchen counters and backsplash.

Trees Arrive!

Detail of garden planter.

Garden view with European Beech trees.

Atrium view with English Columnar Oak and yews.

Tamping down the soil in the bed.

Adding more soil to the atrium planting bed.

Wrangling the Columnar English Oak tree into the atrium.

Finishing the tree bed with soil.

Removing the top of the burlap covering.

Cutting away the top of the burlap root ball covering.

Landscapers place the last beech tree in place.

Checking and adjusting the depth and position.

Using a level to calculate the depth for the tree planting.

Digging the holes for three European Beech trees.

Positioning trees and marking the ground.

Landscapers move each tree carefully into position.

Rolling the first tree off the truck.

Garden trees arrive!

Staircase

Underside of staircase

being secured.

Wrangling staircase into position.

Installation view from basement staircase.

Hoisting the floating staircase

into place.

Centre floating staircase arrives.

Installing first section of staircase.

First section of white oak staircase arrives.

Carpenters continue work on oak panelling in

entryway hall and main floor powder room.

Kitchen Pantry & Stone Tile

The pantry will offer storage for food, cleaning products

and larger items in its upper and lower cabinets.

Carpenters work on a large walnut pantry cabinet for the kitchen.

The walnut kitchen with hand-wiped finish is covered to protect it.

A silver-coloured grout, then a layer of colour-enhancer is applied.

Tile setters work carefully to level the floor tiles on top of scratch coat.

Tile setter's saw set-up on walkway deck, used to cut limestone tiles.