The first three months were spent away from Rose Cottage. We had medical issues and replaced the carpet in our great room with laminate flooring. Then my son came to visit.
In April Steven installed mood lighting in the kitchen porch.
Friends came to help clean and decorate for the party.
We sheet rocked the walls and installed the headboard that had been removed from the porch when we demoed it. It was installed as wainscoting. We left an area at the far end showing the shiplap that had been under the siding. I sanded and stained. The wainscoting was sealed with amber shellac.
We had purchased 3 slider windows on clearance thinking that would be enough but because of the existing posts we needed one more. We ordered it and when it came it was missing an exterior piece. We installed it temporarily for the winter.
We had removed the installed headboard. It was stripped of paint, sanded, stained and shellacked and replaced.
We had removed the headboard under the windows to install insulation. One wall of the porch had blue siding. To keep some of the old decor, we decided to match the blue color and paint the reinstalled headboard wainscoting the same color. I also painted the floor a slightly lighter blue then stenciled a pattern with pink paint. The trim is a burgundy color.
After sanding and applying amber shellac we installed the headboard in the kitchen porch ceiling.
Steven saw maple flooring in a neighbors Bagster and asked if he could have it. We rescued it and removed all the nails. Several months later we have installed it in the kitchen porch.
