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 gifts of mice from Starsky in the middle of the night…
…it was time to get the hallway ripped apart and put back together…
…so compressing time a little we ripped the hallway apart, evicted the mice poured a concrete foundation and floor, and build a small addition on the front (and yes there were plans and a permit courtesy of Punch).
and to cover several more months in a single bound, we rewired, insulated, drywalled, plumbed for a new downstairs bathroom, had two skylights put in (which is a whole saga in itself).
Then we primed and painted – well Emma primed and painted while Duncan was in Seattle breaking a friends face – which is another whole saga.
The inside still needs to be finished but that can happen when we start ripping the kitchen and old bathroom out – and that is a whole new post.
But for now its time to get on with the cottage…