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As soon as we opened the front doors, it dawned on us; To
make this place into the best Thai restaurant in Ottawa, we would
need to do a lot of hard work and make major changes to the entire
interior of this place.
This location, was once the "Day Light Lounge"
bar. It never had a kitchen, just a bar and a dance floor.
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view shown here is the entrance way, looking in from the front
doors.
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After
examining the premises, we knew we had a lot of hard work ahead of
us. This is the location we chose to construct our
kitchen. We noticed that the floors and walls had suffered a
great deal of water damage from equipment previously used by the
old owners of the site.
Tiles were peeling and badly stained. So too were the
walls. Clean-up would be major if we wanted to have this area
clean enough to be our kitchen.
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view shown here is at the entrance to the kitchen
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This area was going to be our small dining area. It would
give the clients a window view and allow a little more privacy
from the main dining room area.
The
area around the windows needed a lot of repairs due to chipping
and broken pieces of concrete. Everything had thick blue and
yellow paint on it.
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This
area was to be our main dining room. What can I say... a
mess! We had our work cut out for us.
Our first goal was to clean... clean... and clean some more.
Only then could we then begin the task of removing all the old
paint from the floors and the walls.
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view shown here is from the bathroom hallway looking back into the
restaurant
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Here
we see the kitchen walls going up... Before this we had to remove
old floor tiles, dig out the floor to install floor drains,
install the ceiling, and ceiling lamps, rough in all the plumbing
and rewire for the equipment.
We wanted to allow are clients to see the kitchen so at one end we
created a half-wall effect.
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The
main dining room wall. Blue paint and graffiti all
over it. Blue paint was everywhere, on the floors, the
walls... The blue had to go....
We wanted to keep the original brick look, but it had to be
reconditioned to give it a warm feeling and pleasing look to
it. We decided on a custom red-brown mixture of sealer and
paint.
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The
bar ... We wanted a unique look to it... we shopped around for a
bar, but decided to design and build it ourselves...
This was a long process. It had to have the right look to
pull the decor of the restaurant together... It was central to the
whole restaurant.
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Main
entrance ... We decided to create a half wall at the main
entrance... This served many functions. It would stop any
drafts from reaching clients, It would separate the small dining
area and it would serve as a waiting area for clients.
We used Oak and a special stain to finish the look.
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Perhaps
the worst job of them all.... Removing the blue paint from the
floor. We found the original floor was wood... The paint was
so thick that regular sanding methods would not work... we
resorted to sanding by hand and edge sander...
Many, many hours were spent on our knees removing the paint... The
dust created by removing the old paint was incredible.
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I
think the after image says it all....
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A
view from the back of our main dining room, looking towards the
bar... Notice the blue paint on the walls, the unfinished ceiling
and floor.
Again, the after picture says it all. I feel that we got the
look just right.
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This
image shows the entrance way into the washrooms. We had
already done quite a bit of work on the walls already, when this
picture was taken.
We wanted it to look elegant ... I think we got this right too.
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