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Reviewing the Nursery Project

Bob recaps the work done so far in the Melrose remodeling project. A new nursery has been created for the soon-to-arrive baby, blown-in insulation has been installed in the attic, and some of the windows have been replaced. The family lives on the second and third floor of a two-family home and Bob shows how baby safety gates have been installed at the top and bottom of the stairs. Bob reviews some of the safety products in the kitchen designed to make the room safe for toddlers. Safety latches, dial covers for the stove, and sliding electrical outlet covers have all been installed. An elegant new powder room has been created featuring a porcelain sink and toilet from Porcher, elegant lighting from Bellacor, and iridescent blue tile from Daltile.

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Reviewing the Nursery Project

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" OK before we start the tour let's recap a little bit about what the scope of this project entailed we not only created a new nursery room but we've really taken over third floor attic space and some of the things that had to be done. To the house from invisible things including. Pumping insulation throughout those attic spaces and between the roof rafters and also replacing some of the windows. But anyway let's go inside and start our tour."

" If you live in the upper portion of a two family house you gotta get used to stairs so from the front door we have one flight and here we are and there's many things if you want to do when you're building a nursery and getting ready for a new family one of them has to do with kids safety. The folks from kick -- helped us by supplying gates on the staircases. In the kitchen they've put in all sorts of clever gadgets one step ahead is the other group that helped us out where we've got. Magnetic locks on all of the drawers and doors and we've got special knob covers on the stoves so that they can't trust -- when they get to be toddlers. And they also put in outlet covers sliding outlet covers so that you don't have to worry about little ones poking anything in there. And here at the top of the stairs in the stair hall we have one improvement which is really really important this house had only one bathroom. And what we've done is we've carved out an area that's just about four by six feet. And we've managed to totally create a powder room here. And you know some of the features really make it elegant like the -- lighting Wisconsin's that you see there and then. That the choice of cool cool colors for the walls and before share fixtures. White porcelain lavatory. And of course the water closet that toilet. And for me what really makes it special is this iridescent blue. Mosaic tile from dal tile."

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