Category: The Cottage

As I said last time its all me now.  The experts have gone away, leaving me feeling a bit lonely and confused – but still windows get ordered, I get a great deal on siding from my supplier – Windor Plywood - thanks Ken – and things start happening.  I staple up building paper, wrestle windows…

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…

(ok so this is the first in a series of time travel posts where I go back in time and catch up on the blogging from the past 12 months….) So if you want to build a guest cottage there are a few things that you need to do.  First of all you need a…