Building A Beach Cottage

Thank you so much for all your comments and emails on my last post,it would seem my imac is now too old to update to google chrome and i am going to need to buy a new one,.....not sure how i am going to pull that one off while building a beach cottage but for now i have switched to Safari browser and everything seems to be working well.

At the far end of the hallway at the beach cottage is a room which was previously a bedroom....well it is soon to be our bathroom and i thought you would like to come on in and have a look around and see what we were up to last weekend........

There was a framed board over what we thought was a hole from where there had been a window in this room.....see the misty window to the right? that was no mist it was ice! on the inside! hope its better weather this weekend.....

Behind the board we found the original window.............

I think its beautiful and the beach cottage must have looked dreamy with windows in this style all matching.......we pulled the board of outside too and smiled when the light came shining in.....we are having a slipper bath in front of these two windows,well in front of two new windows.....

It was really handy too as it opened so we could throw all the old plaster board and wood  out of the window....do you like our glamorous out buildings?..........i think i could throw a match from here ;) .......................note to self get a skip!.......

Upstairs  you can see Steve,he built a timber frame to hold  insulation in on the gable end wall and to hold a window we will be fitting.........new joists too to hold the new floors and ceilings.....................

This will be my room where i will create and blog from with a window over looking the garden...it is a little hard to imagine right now i know but we have it all planned......

The window we uncovered at the start of this post is the large black board to the left of the picture below.... you can see the sun room i posted about here  and the door and brown board will become french doors.........my room window will be above in the middle under the eaves and the long thin black board downstairs to the right is the window pictured below....

Which we found hidden in the wall in our bedroom...........i would love this to be a door out on to a rose garden........Cindy you would be really proud i nailed these curtains up ;)............

Looking in from what is going to be the bathroom straight in to our bedroom you can see all the new joists in the bedroom ceiling too and the planked walls from the other side.....where the mirror is against the wall will be our bed.......

Its really strange being able to look straight through the beach cottage........

Well this weekend the planked ceiling will be going up in the bathroom and corner walls so Steve can fit and tile our corner shower so we have some where to get washed and then we can take the old shower and bathroom out of the room it is in now and start to build that in to a washroom.....

I love the beach house below from the  movie Practical Magic  and this quote “There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”

After i heard that i planted Rosemary by our garden gate that Steve had made last Summer and this was last weekend and it is still growing,i have never been able to grow it inland.
I always take a little sprig back to the city with me to use for cooking...i have planted roses and now i need to plant lavender,i love gardening and can not wait until we move to the beach cottage and i can potter on an Summer evening,that for me will be heaven.

The End XxX