RESTORING CENTURY OLD CORBELS By: greening homes

October 28, 2012
Waste Diversion

For the last year, Greening Homes has been working on gutting, rebuilding, and restoring a century old home in Toronto”s Rosedale neighbourhood. One of the many challenges of the home was addressing the failing and rotting–yet potentially beautiful–century old corbels. Corbels, when looking their best, give a home”s facade a distinct and ornate look. Unfortunately, […]

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RECLAIMED WOOD By: greening homes

October 8, 2012
Green Materials, Waste Diversion

While adjusting openings in the exterior brick walls for new windows, we carefully deconstructed the existing headers.  The salvaged wood, approximately 1.75″ thick douglas fir with a wonderful patina and character-infusing defects, were repurposed as rustic wood accent pieces and used throughout the home. Our carpenters carefully selected pieces with the right combination of workability and character to creat rustic window […]

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