Cottage Renovation: DRYWALL

It's been a LONG, SLOW process, but we've FINALLY made it to the drywall phase! Thank goodness. It's already taken far longer than expected to get to this point, so I was extremely please to see how quickly the drywall made its way up!

From the side door looking through the mudroom.

Laundry Nook

From the living room looking towards the hallway where all the renovations took place.

Guest Bath

From Master, looking through the Sitting Room.

From the Sitting Room, looking back into the Master Bedroom.

Master Bath

Cottage Renovation: Interior Progress

A quick look at the interior work...

Looking into the Master Bath from where our bed will be. We have TUBS! It's not the clawfoot I wanted, but I guess that can wait a couple years for that....

Looking down the new hallway from the Master through to the living room. The guest bedroom is the opening on the left and the beginning of the hall and the guest bath will be right across from that.

A peek into the guest bath. Another tub and plumbing - yay!

The former Master, will now be the guest bedroom.

Hard to see, but this will be the laundry nook in the Mudroom.

Cottage Renovation: Siding

I loved our old wood siding, but it left much to be desired in terms of warmth and keeping the house well sealed. And with adding on to the house, it would be almost impossible to side the new portion of the house and it even come close to matching. So, we said goodbye to our rustic, original siding from 1929. But don't worry, we're going to preserve a couple pieces to use for projects inside of the house.

No windows, no siding. A naked cottage!

Pa and Pee Wee (far left) working hard to get all of the old siding off.

Our supervisor misses her home!

Cottage Renovation: Master Bedroom

After some careful thought (major stress) and discussion (major arguments) we decided that the best thing for us to do was to move our Master Bedroom from the front room to the more spacious room on the back of the house. Though I was resistant at first, as we move forward, I'm so glad that we made the switch. Now we will be leaving the sitting room open (no door) and accessible only through our bedroom. It gives us a beautiful view and open feel we wanted for our Master Bedroom. We will also now have a Master Bath and Walk-in Closet accessible from our bedroom.

These pictures are from November 23rd. We've done so much since then, but I wanted to make sure I have the progress documented.

This will be the view from our bed, looking through the sitting room. (Excuse the MESS)

Looking from the sitting room towards the back of the house where our bed will be. Originally this area was supposed to be a closet, but Bubba came up with a great idea to utilize the space. We extended the closet wide enough to slide our bed into. We'll have built in shelving inside the alcove along with recess lighting and switches on both side of the bed.

Cottage Renovation: Bathroom to Mudroom

We made it through the holidays and I wanted to post a couple of progress pictures of the house. Take a look at the Bathroom's transformation into the Mudroom.

Looking from the kitchen into what used to be the bathroom. Beginning to transform into a Mudroom.

Looking from the new side door through the mudroom into the kitchen.

Unusual view...this will actually be our master closet, but for now we're look through it to see the two windows in the mudroom.