Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
It has always been in our plans to paint the cottage to match the house, but somehow we have never quite got there …. until now. So since last Saturday we have been hiring scaffolding, buying paint, balancing up ladders and generally getting messy. The first step was to paint the raw siding with a…
After camping out in the cottage (again) while we built our new kitchen, the time came to welcome our first guests in the cottage (thanks to Kathy and Patrick for coming to try it out). As well as giving the cottage a good clean inside and out we decided that we needed to do something about…
Its the 23rd of March and we had our first lunch outside today. Sat on the deck at our new cottage (we have no kitchen in the house right now so we have to use the cottage at meal times – more on that later!) The deck is covered and the deck surface is concrete,…
I can't help typing that title without 'The Final Countdown" by Europe creeping into my head. Buts its true – we got electrical sign off a couple of weeks ago, and just got final sign off from the CRD building inspector. A tour round the outside and a look at the fixtures and fittings inside…
No I am not on strike (although sometimes it is a tempting alternative to installing 700 sq ft of laminate flooring – I am not as young as I used to be and my knees are complaining). I have in fact been installing pickets in the railing around the deck. The cottage is definitely looking…