Upstairs ceiling

 The T&G pine ceiling upstairs took us three days to do but boy, was it worth it! The wood adds a wonderful warmth to the room and there's no drywall mudding and sanding and painting...

















Those leaning trees on our southern property line have been asking to come down for a while so I finally gort Mike to cut them and nhired Tim to buck them up and burn the branches.

Now I'm back in the city for a few days before Danielle and I head off to Alberta for a bit of a Rocky Mountain getaway.

My biggest fan!

Yeah, I know it does not look like a big deal but this 42" beauty took me 3 hours to install, and more than a few choice expletives. After that I had no choice... I had to go sailing!

Nice day, good wind... Gwyneth was ready and  I think she was as happy as me to be out again after a long winter on the mooring.  She kicked up her heels and scooted along at better than 6 knots. Fun!

(click on the pic to see larger version)

April 13th - yes it's a Friday and no it's not unlucky!

This is the ceiling of the living room... the first interior finishing touch! The wood is pine tongue and groove finished with Penofin, a Brazilian Rosewood oil finish.

Now we are moving on to the upstairs room where we plan on doing the same kind of ceiling. But the geometry is a lot more complex....

April 11th

 Insulation... itchy, repetitive, not-fun work but somehow Mike and I passed a pleasant day chatting about this and that as we carefully filled all the stud cavities with insulation and then covered it with vapour barrier.

Top to bottom: the kitchen, the bathroom and the dining room. In fact the whole of the upstairs is now complete (except for the foam board). And downstairs we just have the living room left to do.

I am encouraged by our progress....

April 10th 2012

Hello again to all you May's Garden blog followers. I'm back on Cortes Island!

As you can see in the top photo, a strange tent has appeared in front of the house. This is the temporary cover for the spiral staircase that will go around the centre post of the house.

Danielle spent a lovely weekend here and has definitely fallen in love with this house! Here she is sitting on the front steps in the April sunshine.

Today, Danielle left to go back to work and I started work with Mike insulating walls and ceilings. The photo shows the upstairs room with insulation. In fact there will be an additional layer of rigid polystyrene foam board layed over the fiberglass batts before we install the drywall. If that's a bit too technical it translates as follows... the ceiling will be very well insulated.