The porches have railings - posts will be painted next year
Railings from the driveway and an uncovered porch added for the BBQ and laundry lineAnother week and lots more accomplished; but Tassy is right that we have to look more closely for the progress – changes are tending to be subtler.
The most obvious additions this week were the porch railings - Jean-Marc built and painted them in his garage and brought them over ready to install. He is now working on the porch screens – none too early as you’ll see from the last picture of this blog edition! FYI - the support posts have been treated so we can’t paint them until next year, and we think we’ll leave the cedar beams ‘au naturel’.
The Duval team have continued to mount window and door moldings as well as many of the baseboards and have laid more flooring as well. The back kitchen door has been installed, and now that the snow is gone, Gilles has been doing a great job cleaning up the site.
The tile is to be delivered this week, and Jean-Marc and I are hoping to make the final choice of stones for the fireplace. Hopefully the rest of the plumbing fixtures will be chosen on Wednesday morning – so we are beginning to really believe we’ll be in residence for the summer.
All quite amazing!
And if this wasn’t all enough – we’ve just sold the house in Montreal to a lovely young couple (occupancy at the beginning of August), so the hunt for duplex-type apartment is on.
We have a real door into the back hall
The second floor hall and stairs are flooded with morning light
Sue and Ric check the view from Kath's bedroom (note the baseboards and moldings around windows and cupboard!)
A nook for a bureau in Mel's bedroom
Screens needed on May 2?
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