BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE.

Winston Churchill once wrote" we shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us".

Before (After the Mansard roof was removed. Before I painted the siding brown, the original colour was a popsicle banana yellow, as the band above the windows)

After.

 We have for twenty years remarked on how could it be possible for a building of such construction be in a place of such nature. Regardless of shag carpets, textured ceilings and the crushed velvet paintings. Regardless of the steel and tar, I  shall forever wonder in aw in the "delivery" of theses materials, respect and admire the quality of workmanship, try to picture the times Horst, his family and friends had at this most amazing spot. I shall hope we can do the same.

All or most of the columns, with possible height adjustments, will be incorporated in the new plan. Most likely as will the steel floor trusses.

The fireplace shall???

This passage is actually the kitchen window opened up.

Odds are the roof beam will be gone.

My main focus over the past two months has been on the demolition. I look forward to returning and calming seeing what we have and what might we do. For permit purposes, and for reasons of an ideal locate, the existing footprint will play very much in the the new cottage. I have told myself that the right thing to do would be to take this big pine down. We might push the floor plan out that way. So how about topping and building around it. A two story coat rack.

Kitchen and eating view?

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