Toronto Money Pit

What do you do when your new home has a massive satellite dish dangerously perched high above your garage, looming over your backyard? A s...

I feel in love with this vertical planter at the Toronto Home Show. I wanted to buy one on the May long weekend, but they were out of sto...

It was almost a year about when a MorEnergy rep tried to trick me into replacing my hot water heater because the "government was pha...

A man wearing a hardhat, yellow reflector vest and carrying an official clip board knocked on the door this weekend. He told me that he need...

It is hard to believe that such a small lot can produce so many tomatoes. The Early Girl's didn't turn out so well this season, but ...

If your money pit comes with ugly door hardware (like mine), you can update it yourself and go from tacky to terrific in no time. Just follo...

Our oven has been broken for a few months, but with the summer BBQ season, we've easily avoided facing the repair. I wanted to make some...

My neighbours have been very unhappy with the amount of lint coming from our dryer vent, so I wanted to install a secondary lint filter. In...

Pandora's box of lint... It seems that the road of home ownership can never be smooth. Life in the money pit hit a speed bump about a...

Long before I was an amateur renovator, I was a filmmaker. One of my short films, Mammogram, has been selected for the competition of ReThin...

Homeowners often find themselves in desperate situations, at the mercy of contractors and sales people who don't return your calls for h...

Trying to do our part to stimulate the economy, we ordered new blinds from Blinds To Go on January 30 and just received them today! Our ord...

When I set up the old money pit blog a few years back, I followed the prompt to put Google Ads on my page: what could it hurt. I found it a...

I did not fall from a ladder. I was not injured in the line of duty. I was trying to enjoy winter with some outddor skating at Nathan Philli...

I felt betrayed when our new Rona dual flush water efficient toilet started to leak after only 10 months. Every time we flushed it, water p...

If you can't see the slideshow above, you can see the photos on Flickr . My friend Lorraine was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a r...

Summer is so short, I want to enjoy the back yard as much as I can before the snow starts flying again. But, our al fresco dining is often ...

This weekend, I witnessed that a comment on a blog can inspire action, and that posting a photo on a blog can inspire even more action. I wa...

Technically the bathroom has been done since February, after we installed the toilet and sink. But, I could not declare the project fully co...

This money pit came with a relatively new mid efficiency furnace that was under warranty, as long as we paid $100 per year for a maintenance...