Your Hosts
Katherine Budreau
We are your hosts, Katherine and Diana, a mother-daughter team.
While I (Katherine) won’t claim to be an ‘expert’ at anything, I do love to renovate & invest in real estate! And in particular…I like to buy old worn down properties and breathe new life into them by injecting my personal style and design.
My husband is a contractor, and I’m a self-proclaimed ‘contractor in training’, absorbing all the knowledge I can from him and getting as hands on as I possibly can with our renovations. I want to do the design AND the work.
I should also mention… I am an animal lover! My husband and I adopt senior dogs and try to make their last years their best! (hence why our short term rental is pet friendly – we know how important pets are, they are a member of the family after all!)
Diana Budreau
Hi I’m Diana, if it were not for my daughter starting to invest in property, I would not have gotten into renovating. Sure, I painted and decorated the kids bedrooms like most moms, but not to the extent of renovating a complete house. Luckily, my father taught me how to sand and paint and do other household maintenance. So, when my daughter bought her first investment property years ago, I jumped in to help.
I love restoring old woodwork. Often old railings, banisters, basebaords and door frames are damaged, have holes, or accumulated old paint. I love seeing the finished product when these are carefully sanded, filled and repaired and painted with a gorgeous new color that highlights the property.
Together with our husbands we updated this beautiful property. What’s more is that my husband and I have lived in “The prettiest town in Canada” (aka Paris) all of our married lives. This is such a fabulous town and I hope you get to enjoy it as much as we do.
