Renovations - Upstairs Storage Room and Bedroom Closet

The "storage room" in the upstairs hallway was stupid. Poorly shaped, poorly framed and finished, too small, and no proper door - just a curtain.

The upstairs bedroom had no closet. Back in the day home builders assumed clothes would be put in a wardrobe, I guess. Nowadays not having a closet in a bedroom is unheard of.

So I enlarged the storage room and built a closet in the bedroom. The new storage room is bigger and will be convertible to a two-piece bathroom in the future.

The closet has a light inside, and also there is a new light fixture in the newly created entrance hallway to the bedroom. Got the matching french doors at Re-Build store.

Lots of room in this closet, and a light too!

A new mini entrance hallway

Elinor didn't want the door painted white, but wanted it
left in the natural wood.

There's the closet. This is now the best room in the house!

Birthday Card from Olivia

Renovations - Linen Closet

I got the notion on a random day that it would be worthwhile to create a linen closet in the space where the chimney flue was located. So, on a Saturday in November I made a hell of a mess. Ian and Elinor were a great help getting the plaster and the cement blocks and bricks hauled down to the back patio. What a hell of a pile of dust!

I rebuilt the partition to enclose the space where the chimney once sat, covered it with drywall and added a door. We're good to go!

This is the view into our new upstairs office from the hallway:

Maximizing the opportunity to make a mess,
I ripped the wood panels out of the bottom
two door sections and replaced them with
glass. This brightens the hallway considerably!

Reflections in Mid-summer, 2017

It's been a fairly leisurely summer. I've been able to get up to the cottage about 4 times since April. One thing that I'm kind of excited about is the outdoor shower that I connected back in July. Next step is to play around with getting some solar-heated water!

We've just been caught up for the last few days getting Olivia moved out to an apartment over near Wentworth. Back in June we gave her and boyfriend Matt that we were not going to be able to sustain having both of them living in our basement beyond the end of August. They decided to leave and find their own place.

Now we're doing a big switch with Ian moving into the basement bedroom, and setting up his recording stuff in the music room. He's also going to put a desk in the rec room area.

Tomorrow is a fun gig at Gore Park. Nathan fleet will have a video crew there, and Tom Bigas will be doing our sound, since we got rained out a few weeks ago at the Waterfront Stage. Then, I'm having a coffee with drum dude Corey Pearce. Not sure what he wants. Last time we met he asked me to join the board for Impact Percussion.

On Wednesday Brenda and I are going to officer training for the Musicians Guild for two days. Then on Friday the Canadian Conference of Musicians gets started and goes until Sunday.

Week after that, I'm hoping Brenda and I will head up north on Wednesday for a couple of weeks. Aaah, the real holiday part of our summer!