It's the End of an Era

DV Shop One is a wrap!

 

Paint by Numbers

Paint splotches on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?

One of the joys of renovating is picking the paint colours. No way to better
guarantee the silent treatment laced with seething anger with spouses and
co-workers is to try and pick paint colours.

After much hand-wringing and late nights filled with anxiety attacks, we
managed to pick the new colours for DV Shop 2.

Which colours did we go with? Here's the cryptic answer: In the wheatfields
by Grenadier Pond, my thoughts turned to Amsterdam, and that mysterious
overcoat. Riddle me that, Mr. Benjamin Moore!

I must have inhaled too many paint fumes...

Coolest Tile Remover Thing Ever

When you have 800 square feet of tile and thinset that you gotta remove, who
you gonna call? Scraper's Edge, that's who.

That's Sandy Sharma from Scraper's Edge riding a tile zamboni, performing a
minor miracle. If you've ever taken out tile flooring, you know what a pain
it is. Your DV Dudeness has had the honour of taking out possibly the world's
strongest (and ugliest) tile floor once, and still has nightmares about it.
This job for the new DV Shop would have taken an experienced tile person 1
to 2 days to take out. Sandy was in and out in 3 hours.

So, for those faithful readers of this blog - if you ever have to remove
tile from a commercial location, Scraper's Edge has the DV Dude's Seal of
Approval.

And as a bonus, you get to see the coolest thing I've seen in a long time -
the tile zamboni. And it's got joysticks too!

Google Map Driving directions from DV Shop 1 to DV Shop 2

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It's a quick drive from our current location to our new one, opening January 2011 at 3422 Dundas St. in the Dundas Runnymede Plaza.