Rose Cottage is Open for Fuzzy Fiber Fun!

   Step right in.

 Lamby and Minky will welcome you and protect your head from the stair corners.

Can you tell I'm excited about the ironing board and ex-ironing board bookshelves?

 Piper's Corner

All the curtains are "up- cycled" hand-pieced quilt tops that I got at St. Vincent De Paul's!






Cool old glass shades from Hippo Hardware.

Rosie says, "Don't just stand there, go check out the upstairs loft."

 It's hard to back up far enough to get good photos up here.  I love that I fit so much craft stuff under our little ol' antique rope bed.





The bed doubles as a handy workspace, but I'll clear it off for you if you come visit.

I'm looking forward to it getting even more overgrown! 

Window is open, hoping that Bumbles will figure out she can go in and out. See the back of the curtains show all that cool hand-stitching some spirit quilter did just for me?
 Come visit. I'll make us some tea and we can craft the afternoon away!

The Final Push

Rose Cottage's Own Electrical Service

Seth's copper work powder room sink and counter for "kitchen" area

  Shopping trip to Jerry's for laundry sink, toilet, heaters, etc.

The laundry sink is awesome.  It has it's own built in washboard, and came with its own cabinet.

One of the things we had to do to be energy efficient is to prove that Rose Cottage is tightly insulated enough.  So this company came and did a "Blower Door Test."  they had to do it twice because he couldn't believe how tight this little building is!

And that was the last step before final inspection! 

 

Seth cutting battens to finish the siding while I start moving in!

 My "new" Oregon made mid-century Allen Folding loom.  It needs some work, but it came with lots of extras making it a pretty darn good deal.

All this stuff (and more!) is leaving the house for Rose Cottage

The Rose Cottage landscape is filling in.   

                               

The house is very Zen with all that stuff out. 

 OK, well, relatively Zen.

Word Lite -- easy on yer brain

I am so behind! The Rose Cottage is nearly complete--we literally only need about 4 more things to get wrapped up and we'll be done!--but anyone who looked here would never know it!

So, here is one of my infamous whirlwind photo heavy, sparing text, catch-up posts, to continue the saga of how to build an art studio in your neighbors' back yard:


STEP 24:
Call Rock Roofing (they did our house a few months ago) and have them come back in the fog and use the same super-coolio red shingles on Rose Cottage as we put on our house:

STEP 25:

Have Andrew from Salamander Construction come back and start putting up your redwood board siding.  He was very patient with cutting the top of each board just a weetle different at the top for the crazy swoopy roof!

   

STEP 26: Mask the heck out of the place before the insulation blowers arrive!

STEP 27: Wait for it to be the second worst snow storm of the year to have your insulators drive over the mountains to get to your job. Then have them Blow in this stinky, but highly effective, stuff, just before you leave for the weekend.   Exciting day!  

This is taken after our return--you weren't allowed in for 48 hours!
 This stuff is hard as a rock though! And it's a vapor barrier.

STEP 28: Call Rick's Rain Gutters to put up some nice

 galvanized half pipe gutters and downspouts. They look really old school--and they match our house, too!

STEP 29:   SHEETROCK!   Oh, yeah! Lookin' like a room!

STEP 30: Plaster.  

 

These guys were fast and awesome and I LOVE plaster.  I love the roughness and the look. It just seems "real" in a world where so much is pre-fabricated.  Smearing mud on your walls--can't get much more old school than that.

Wheeeelll, I'm no where near caught up, but I'm going to give myself carpal tunnel if I keep clicking away much longer! Hope you are enjoying this!  I know someone is looking at it because the Google tells me so.  Feel free to leave a comment.  I'm pretty sure it's fairly safe to do so.  (Is that enough qualifiers?)