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I was just finished restoring the old metal sink in our penthouse cottage. I stood back to admire my handiwork and I realized that I put all the handles on backwards. I am not the queen of DIY but I try hard and thank goodness I had previous photos of what the sink looked like […]

ah yes the penthouse small cottage bathroom. It feels like for the past year we’ve been doing projects that show little progress but they were much needed. What we continuously thought would be a cosmetic makeover has morphed into a total gut job on this house. Projects like removing mildew, reframing walls, electric,  plumbing, hot […]

We made some more penthouse progress last weekend in the form of our cottage ceiling. We finally got the majority of the ceiling insulated and put the panels up. As much as I really really really wanted those beams exposed, it was more important to me to keep heat and cool air in, especially if […]

Progress on the small cottage bathroom has slowed as the snow refuses to give it up and we physically can’t get to pentwater (the snow was up to our waist the last time we went). the winter storm warnings up there is a 2 to 1 ratio. in fact i have an alert they have […]