Townsman, 1992-03, Page 8Reclaimed red brick adds a warm
touch 10 the large living room.
shine through but provides draft -free
beauty. Off the living room is a small
office.
Upstairs there are three bedrooms.
The smaller bedrooms at the front of
the house are 10 by 17 feet, large
enough so that even with two beds in
the one of the children's rooms, there
is still plenty of room. In each of the
rooms a dormer with a large window
is centred in the room, lending perfect
balance as well as adding extra head-
room and plenty of light.
At the rear of the house, the master
bedroom is even larger at about 14 by
18 feet, leaving room enough for it to
be a living area as well as sleeping
arca.
There's also a large bathroom at the
rear of the upstairs and perhaps the
house's most unique feature: a second -
floor laundry room. Having laundry
facilities near bathroom and bedroom
where most of the dirty laundry is cre-
ated saves a lot of carting, Sharon
says. Fear of the washing machine
overflowing and leaking down to ruin
ceilings of rooms underneath is what
normally causes laundry rooms to be
6 TOWNSMAN/MARCH-APRIL 1992
located on the main floor or basement,
Dave says. He solved the problem by
creating a special containment area
under the washer that will catch any
water and funnel it through a drain
that is located in the wall, to the base-
ment.
The couple moved into an unfin-
ished house in 1980 after their mar-
riage. The house has grown over the
years since but nothing has been
"added on", Dave says. It was always
part of the original plan. It just took
him 12 years to find the time to finish
the project. "We built the size we
needed rather than adding on later,"
Dave says.
First, in 1981, came the two -car
garage. To harmonize with the rest of
the house it too has dormers and the
style of the garage doors recalls times
past rather than today's mass-pro-
duced look.
In 1989 came the front verandah.
The spindles in the railing and the
verandah posts were salvaged from
other buildings. The porch manages to
match the look of the rest of the
house: traditional, yet modern.
Last year came the final touch: the
sun -room at the rear of the house.
Large windows pick up the south sun
and, with skylights, allow plenty of
light for growing plants. Large beams
hold the room, salvaged from a facto-
ry he tore down. The room is finished
with a soft -grey -coloured tile. Again
the room balances a feeling of new
and old: the old wood of the beams
and the modern convenience of a
large whirlpool.
The sun -room brings the building
of the house to a finish, Dave says.
The temporary wooden decks have
now all been replaced with permanent
structures. They have tried to create a
low -maintenance house, Sharon says.
With the long days Dave can spend at
work, they need to.
His work takes him anywhere in
southwestern Ontario within a 100
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