Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
Well, after buying the rental – all the associated renos, working on the business, in the garden and getting the guest cottage underway it felt like we were going to have a 'dirt' hall FOREVER! However things were brought to a head when we seemed to have ever increasing numbers of mice and were getting…
At the end of the last cottage update we were left with something looking a little like an under ground bunker – because of the slope on our land the foundation for the cottage needs a lot of concrete to achieve a level floor. The next challenge was to get the framing done – that's…
OK so I had my permit and my plans – which was great apart from one small detail. Now I had to actually do something. And we had just bought a rental property which was in original 1970's condition – the story of that reno is here. So I had two choices – one was…
Main Bedroom 1) This doesn't capture the dirty grey, rucked up 80's carpet, bizarre stove in the corner on a concrete platform with fake brick backing, unlockable patio door, uncovered fluorescent light fittings, 4ft deep cupboards all along one wall (right hand side) with green wood panel doors that were supposed to be on rollers…
Or so our wonderful new tenants call us… When we moved to Salt Spring we downsized and the plan was always to buy a rental property so we could have some income. It's notoriously hard to make a living on Salt Spring – with a population of 10,500 and a largely tourist economy. And finally,…