Renovation Transformation: Three decades later, dark and isolated kitchen becomes dream entertainment space

Thirty years of memories fill a Manotick home built by Michel and Judy Rodrigue in 1987. They have watched their children grow up, celebrated milestone wedding anniversaries and most recently, retirement, in the house south of Ottawa.
Now a distant memory – Judy remembers her husband commuting from Orléans to Manotick every day to build the house piece by piece on what was originally an empty lot.
“There is a lot of love, sweat and tears in this house,” she said. After m