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Top Tips for Designing a Functional Furnished Income Suite

August 26, 2025August 28, 2023

As mortgage rates increase, some of you are choosing to renovate your home and add a furnished income suite (sometimes known as an in-law suite) to offset housing costs. Builders and contractors write plenty of articles about building these independent rental units. They include lots of valuable information for you to consider. For example, Bob … Read more

Categories Decorating, Design, and Renovations

To Rent or Own – That is the Question

October 21, 2024June 8, 2021

I absolutely love the thought of home ownership, even though I no longer have a house. Not to say that I won’t again one day but likely only if I can design and build it myself to my exact needs. I just need a piece of land to put it on – no small feat … Read more

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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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