The Buchan - Machnyikova House

The house was built in the late 1800's and had been renovated and updated in the past. There was a 3-season back addition that was removed and then incorporated into the new kitchen. Also a new bathroom was put in and a general renovation was done to the house.

Challenges: - The project had to remove the back addition by first take away solid masonry wall, put in new steel beams for support, then broke up the cement floor to excavate to rock. This was rebuilt and insulated to provide a new area open to the new kitchen area.

Design: The new kitchen was designed by a combination of CADA in-house services, Karhu Woodworking and the client.

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The Manning Residence

This is an older home in Westboro for a family of five. They loved the neighbourhood and wanted to stay in the house.

Challenges: - This house was originally a 1-1/2 story house. CADA took off the full upper level and made it into a 2 story with full story addition on the rear. The living room and a front study were the only rooms left in-tact and the rest was completely rebuilt.

Architect: David Mailing

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The Fung House

This was a new custom home with Feng Shui influence. The design included handicap accessibility, a music room and a home theatre.

Challenges: - The design included the construction of curved walls and stairs, a multi-level home theatre with theatre seating as well as an acoustically designed music room. - The site had to be excavate 24" of solid rock and water challenges were managed with interior and exterior weeping tile system and 2 sump pits.

Architect: Frank Fentiman

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The Thorne Project

This was originally a cottage that was converted into a modern, efficient, architecturally well designed home.

Challenges: - The main challenge of this project was dealing with tight time frames and the fact that the original building was an old frame cottage, whose support structure was rotting from the bottom up and originally built on rock. First, the Cada team was faced with hand excavating the under the structure to be able to replace rotten sill plates and re-work the old foundation with the new support structure for the addition. Being an older structure also presented the team with lots of unforeseen challenges whose solutions were worked through with the owners and the architect and delivered on time and budget for the customer.

Architect: David Mailing Architect Inc.

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The Revelstoke Project

This home was originally a bungalow was turned into a two story, family home.

Challenges: - The original bungalow had beautiful plaster ceilings with cove mouldings that had to be integrated into the new design. When we were all finished tearing the whole roof off and putting a full second floor on, with new floor joists, plumbing and heating, the plaster ceilings and other features of the original building were preserved. The Cada team took a creative approach and had respect for the owner's needs. The owners have continued to rely on Cada for numerous smaller changes to their home over the intervening 4 years since the major renovation.

Architect: David Mailing Architect Inc.

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Assortment of Project Pictures

Take a visit to this photo gallery of Cada projects. The gallery contains a mixture of interior / exterior photos as well as kitchens, bathrooms, living spaces in their construction phase and the final products. Enjoy ...

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