Home renovations can be intimidating no matter how big or small the job is. Most people would just resort to hiring someone to get the job done quickly and easily. My mom on the other hand is not like most people. Many people would only consider doing one task at a time, possibly two at most. Again, my mom is not like many other people and she does not just take on one task, she takes on fifty.

1. If Only My Mom Had Married Mike Holmes: The How-To’s and How-Not-To’s of Home Reno’s My Mom!

3. This is where it all started, in the kitchen. This picture shows the newly built door frame between the kitchen and the dining room.

4. Putting in hard wood flooring!

5. How to Secure a book shelf to a wall lesson 101: This is in our home office. I was living in Hamilton and my mom did not have that extra pair of hands, so she used books to prop up the book shelf so she could do it herself! (Do NOT do this!)

6. This is a graph showing existing home sales and mortgage rates from 2003 to 2007 (Rosenblatt)

7. This is a graph on what usually starts to leak first in a home, and would therefore need to be renovated! (Thermilate)

8. Try cooking in this kitchen!

9. Almost done!