Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
So its almost time for our first 'official' guests at Cosy Woodpecker Cottage – our B&B providing Accommodation on Salt Spring Island . In the past two weeks we have been to Vancouver (Ikea, Sears) for bedding, night stands and more. And then a trip to the big island for a BBQ and kitchen bits…
So I know I keep claiming the the cottage is finished, but there are always those final touches. With the aim of launching Cosy Woodpecker Cottage as a B&B providing Salt Spring accommodation this May it's time to get the last few things of the list. One of the biggest tasks was tiling the back-splash…
Its finally over – after treating picket after picket after picket on the railings. I may wake up dreaming about deck railings. Definitely one of those jobs you dread starting and that seems to go on forever, but it looks great and I am so glad its over – for a few years at least….
So close to being finished… after buying about 250 ft of 1×4 and painting it first with white primer, and then with 'rice pudding' (no not actually painting it with rice pudding – its an off-white paint colour) it was time to nail it up. There were a few tricky angles to deal with, and…
So after the somewhat gruelling experience of painting the cottage gunmetal grey (using oil based primer), the next step was to paint it the final red colour that matches the house. The great thing was that this is a water based paint and it goes on way way easier that the primer (at least in…