We are getting closer and closer to having the cottage all completed! To say I am excited might be one of the biggest understatements of the year.
Over Thanksgiving my mom and I spent six days painting the inside of the cottage. And it was just as exciting as it seems in your mind...
Well, it wasn't all that bad. Mom and I love music, movies and Harry Potter on Audio CD. I have an iPod with a docking station. Solution to what could have been a very quiet week (we were in the middle of nowhere after all)? Listen to all sorts of stuff on my iPod hooked up to the docking station! We discovered Harry could only be listened to while painting walls. Why? Because when we were painting the trim (yes, all of it in long slats- see picture below) the job was too tedious to listen to spoken words. We needed music to jam to. Unfortunately my jam music is slightly different than hers... we just took turns choosing the music. We also
Ok, ok -- enough of my written recap. Here is the cottage in pictures. Looks real now, doesn't it?
The front (back?) of the cottage -- this is the view from the street.
View from the living room -- you can see the lake, and we think it makes you feel like you are in a tree house. Our house is on a bluff so we look out OVER lots of the land. I like it!
View from the deck -- it is massive with a porch portion, too. I think this excites me the most. I can see myself relaxing out here each summer, enjoying the sun with a really good book.
This was how we dried the trim -- and just as a note, we filled that scaffholding four times with painted trim. It was the worst thing we had to do. Never again I tell you!
And of course, the beach. Even in the cold, Lake Michigan looks beautiful, don't you think?
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