What are we doing? Well, sometimes we wonder that ourselves but what we’re doing is renovating! We began last Autumn by demolishing the ceiling under the front porch and putting in new wood (still not completely finished), we painted the posts white and the curlicues a bright yellow – it stands out! Next was the roof, we had thought of red tin but decided that the cost was just too much though we have decided to go with a copper coloured tin on the front porch roof. That hasn’t been done yet, the roofer delayed a little too long and lost the weather but hopefully it will be done before our “Grand Re-Opening” in May.
In January the new windows went in. The old windows were partly single-pane and very draughty but we wanted the new ones to look like the old ones as much as possible. Bonnechere Windows did a great job and the new windows are beautiful and look very much like the old ones …it is so much warmer in the gallery now!
Within a month of moving in I (Carl wasn’t here yet) knew I wanted to take out the wall behind the front counter and the tiny room behind it which was a great catch-all for everything. Carl did the demolishing in late January and now there is an amazing feeling of light and airiness. It has really opened up the Gallery and given me a space to put my rug loom.
Carl has also been narrowing the counters that ran around the outside walls, removing the doors underneath them and putting in shelving instead so now we have an extra display area that wasn’t there before with a bonus of more floor space around the room.This morning we are going to wash walls and hopefully, before the day is out we can start painting the undercoat on the ceiling. We have bought 23 gallons of paint as well as some clear varnish for the counter tops and the floor.
This is just the front of the Gallery … we have yet to work on the back! Check in again soon to see where we’re at.
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