Ah yes, and a pergola

We love to recycle. Thanks to our wonderful neighbors and their new deck, we got their old pergola. They helped us cut it up for transport from his house and then we redesigned it to work at Lilipad. Yes he is driving a golf cart with the pergola on top. And his head sticking out through the holes. What a riot!!!!!

Although Tarry tried to kill me, (it's so much heavier than I though) it's up, and it looks good. Thanks to even more of our great neighbors, they showed up just in time to replace me. So I got to watch them lift it up and attach it to the house. Lucky me :)

We Need A Deck

Every good cottage needs a deck....right? So the building begins. This is very scientific, checking the view from a sitting position. It had to be done :)

On to the flooring. 

 This deck is beginning to take shape. The bottom deck? Hmmm, not so much

Flooring finished. All in a good days work, or 2.

Hot or Cold

Heating and air conditioning loaded into the house this week. Boy does this stuff fill up the room. I guess we will be working outside for a while. Oh, but it's gonna be cool in the summer.....and warm in the winter. That's always good to know.

Fireplace? I think not

 Okay, we'll start this with a little before and a not so after photo. On the left is what was sold to us as a fireplace. Now, as you may notice, on the right the door and window are gone and a fireplace is going onto this wall. After removing the carpeting, which was glued down (ugh) and the paneling we found some drywall. Someone used every scrap they had to do this job, but we managed to putty it all into place.

Oh, and notice the ceiling fan with no blades. That was an added bonus.