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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-09-27, Page 30SA HOMES IMPROVEMENT SECTION, BY DEBBIE RANNEY The best advice that Shir- ley Siddall of Brussels could give someone planning on making home renovations is to "work with the house you have instead of trying to make it intosomething else." And Murray and Shirley Siddallare making a number of renovations to their house on Turnberry Street includ- ing making a new bedroom in the house where they took off one of the bedrooms in the, three bedroom house and .made it into . a bathroom. Thus the location of one of the bedrooms has changed, but it will still remain a three bedroom house. The Siddalls are also in the process of re -doing the kitch- en : but at the moment are only half done. They are also, vvi couple learns insulating throughout the house wherever possible. They have renovated, re- drywalled and changed the closet around of one of the bedrooms upstairs. They have reconstructed a side porch so that it will be a mudroom, washroom and new entry to the basement. The old basement stairs will be closed off so that the Siddalls can have a closet put infor the front hall. "At the same time we're trying todo restoration as well as renovation," Mrs. Siddall said, citing for example the ceilings which had been lowered in the kitchen and livingroom. The Siddalls are going to put; them back to the original nine foot height. Mrs. Siddall said that all the windows in the house • have the original glass as far as they can tell but, there were some, panes that need- ed replacing which they did with the glass from the storm windows. The couple haven't really been surprised by any prob- lems. In fact, Mrs. Siddall said they probably expected more problems than they found. "We didn't expect to find it in good condition," she said and added that whoever' had done the wiring in the house, had made it sufficient. for all. Siddalls will use and that the: furnace was fairly new. She said they feel that the house has been built in three sections so ".that createsa bit of a problem (for reno- vations) but it's just some- thing you deal with." The Siddalls have a . gep- eral contractor doing the major portions of work on the house . while Mrs. Siddall does the painting and paper- ing and finishing' the cup- boards which still. have to be painted. Mrs. Siddall designed the cupboards which • are a pull- out type herself and she also designed the bathroom which also holds the washing and drying machines. The bathroom also has a separate little room. for a toilet and sink with sliding door entrances on either side so that the Siddalls can 'enter from their bedroom on one side and so Mrs. Siddall could be , doing laundry on the other side without dis- turbing anyone. Murray is putting siding, on' at the back of the house himself and the Siddalls will do the landscapding them- selves. r�r THE NEW—Shirley Siddall of Brussels shows part of the new bath: oom she and her husband have installed in their Turnberry St. house, Bh Mfr ouse gets porch BY DEBBIE RANNEY Mr. and Mrs. Grant Elliott. are making an improvement to the front of their home in Blyth. They'refixing up the front porch. . They had to tear down the old porch because the ,beams; in it were rotten. The old. porch was an open one which ran the full ,length of the house and came complete with fancy spindles. In order to put in a new porch Grant Elliott and his brother Donald dug a hole to THE:OLD—A before photo of the new bathroom' in the Siddall house, formerly a bedroom. nfroducin • Our `Prices llRyers' A •. ;No V494SNAIREANIESOR.,6201 HI PAINT & PAPER. Interior 4 Exterior Decorators Walkovarings, window shad**, Armstrong carpets, Kam paints, dried flowrrs & arrangemSeater* .ntrr. . 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