Winter projects

The B&B has pace that varies throughout the year- in the spring, as the weather warms, the focus is on cleanup of the grounds, outdoor maintenance, and landscaping. Through summer, any time not consumed by B&B operations (breakfast prep, serve and cleanup, turning over rooms, checking guests in or out) is all outdoors with landscape maintenance, pool, and construction. Autumn starts to allow more time for light indoor projects and the outdoor work is mostly cleanup and pruning. Winter is the time when the big indoor projects get done.

In the past we gutted and rebuilt the apartment that is our private residence as a winter project. We’ve remodeled rooms, the patio, and bathrooms while the snow flew. Winter has had its own challenges for construction. Cutting open walls to install windows when it is -9̊ F outside. Cutting tile when the spray is making icicles on the saw. Last year we hand mixed concrete for piers on a raw 18̊ F day.

This year we are going to try to avoid the big dusty jobs and work on some finishing touches- Susan wants to add some lighting in the living room by making a valance bar over the window. We have had the metal ceiling in the patio on our hit list for some time- it is coming down to be replaced by bead board that is white. And the big project is a series of stained glass windows to go in the transom windows in the patio.

Stay tuned- we will have details on the projects and see how they come out!