painted most of the day

this is with one coat of primer and one coat of Cottage White

this one has the 2 coats of Cottage White-so thats the colour of the woodwork.

this is the finished colour as well.

Next will be the precoat then the paper on the top of the wall.

Alan tackled the livingroom walls, sure makes it look bright in there now...I still love the flooring but it will be changed.

Wow! doesn't it look great all primed up? It will be great to have it all painted.

We ordered the kitchen cabinets from Ikea and the flooring is ordered. They will probably come in at the same time in a couple of weeks and then things will really change.

I meet with the electrician tomorrow to see about what it will take to change the fuse box to a panel...that should be interesting. Its coming along very well, we think..

this is as far as we got today

this is how the border in the bedroom looked the little cabinet is under all the tools but now its gone.

the new wallpaper its paintable but I think we'll leave it white.

the primer is on one bit of wood in the kitchen.. the paper is ready for the sizing for the new paper

I took the border off the bedroom, getting ready to paint

Alan filled the holes in the walls after we took the paper off. Getting ready to paper.

more of the holes filled can't wait to get the paper up and paint the wood.

Alan took the little cabinet out so we can put a closet there.

book case coming down

this is the bookcase before..boards were loose and not very good...this picture looks much nicer than it was.the bookcase is very gone it made the room a foot wider

this is the bookcase in pieces ready to go out to the shed.

the next thing we have to do is finish ripping off the wallpaper, sand down the boards and PAINT! We bought our new fridge today too. Now to order the kitchen cabinets. yippee!

Alan on the move taking some junk out on Sunday

taking the wall paper off the walls next step is to paint

this is our front deck where we had lunch Sunday

this is what it looks like now I think the 30 inch stove will fit now. We need to get a saw to take the piece of wall out.

this is where the stove well go, it needs to be at least 30 inches wide.

this is the closet torn
apart . I have to learn
to put the last pics first so the store goes in the right direction. Oh well. Enjoy our work so far.

this is finished

the carpeted bottom is

coming out

this is what it used to look like

bye bye wood stove

the bottom of the flu
they will come back and get when we take it out. That will be a job and a half I think.

the stove is gone

leveling it up

hello all....today I stayed in town and Alan and Harold went out and jacked up the cottage and put the blocks under it so now the floor is level.
Now its time to sit down and decide what the next move 1. tear the kitchen walls down and see what has to be done to open it all up 2. start on the kitchen etc...
It was hard to be at work in the shop knowing they were at the cottage having fun....hee hee

Harold came to help out today he lugged all the old carpet away to the wast depot as well as ripping out stuff

I took the closet out of the laundry room

We'd like to put a door out here to lead to the new deck, but it might be too low...to be continued.....

We took the brick off the wall and the Island stone from under the stove and I put it out on the muddy wet path.

the Stove is going so we can tear the wall down

these are shots of Alan when he came out from under the cottage, just a little muddy.

this is the flooring in the small bedroom

and so it begins

we got our keys today. We loaded the escape with tools and work things and headed to the cottage. we had our first meal-mac and cheese and chicken. Then the work began, we ripped up the carpet in the livingroom and the 2 bedrooms. We took down the forsale sign and that was our first day at the cottage in the pouring rain!

So we went to see the cottage and walk on the beach on Sunday May 8th. We met our new neighbours Madonna and Lesley Parkman, over from Newfoundland working at the crab processing plant in Belle River.
The Black Flies were really plentiful....not such a nice thing.
The walk on the beach was wonderful. This place makes us very Happy....I hope that feeling contines while we do the renovations......

So we bought a cottage...

we have bought a cottage, lovely little thing that needs tlc and lots of work.
It becomes ours on May 16th And then the fun begins. I'll keep you posted hee hee
Pictures too...I hope this is going to be fun.