Temporary kitchen moved from sun room to living room to make room for painting and flooring in sun room.

A couple of big branches cracked and blew into the house in a recent storm and the limbs were laying on our new roof. Luckily there was no damage on the roof. Was able to cut them off without damaging anything including myself.

We choose wall colours with the help of Katie Jenkins. Revere Pewter and the sea foam green on the accent wall. Most of the lower floor will be in Revere Pewter.  Both very complimentary and calming colours.

We are choosing colours for all the elements of the renovation – matching colour with the  flooring (hardwood and vinyl plank) and counter tops (granite and laminate). There are endless possibilities.

Tones of blue, grey and deciding on an accent colour for one of the walls. We decided to wait on the accent colour and do it ourselves after we live with what we choose for a while.

Glorious morning at Creston Wildlife Center pond loop walk with doggies.

The old kitchen is being demolished this week in preparation for the electrical, plumbing and drywall work so the new kitchen cabinets can be installed the following week. So I moved the fridge, dining room table and the essentials to feed ourselves into temporary shelving. Fun Fun Fun.

Monday Oct. 22, the old kitchen was torn out.

Colin the drywaller is fixing up all the walls and the ceiling in teh living room, sun room, main floor bedroom and the sun room. Things are really taking shape. Our living space will be huge but for now there is only the upstairs and the kitchen between all the  spaces where renovation is happening. Next week the kitchen will be demolished.

Prepped the garden area below the chicken coop, turning in soil from tomatoes pots that were going to be composted at Morris Flowers. We broke off massive cloves from Red Russian bulbs and then put them in the ground. Rio is a very curious dog!

Rio is a very curious dog

Zadie was eating a bulb of garlic just then.

We went to Cranbrook, shopped and purchased granite at Kootenay Granite for the island in the kitchen and vanity in bathroom and then went to Home Depot and bought a faucet, washer and dryer and a dishwasher. We made some decisions.

We picked all the apples and are giving more than half to Harvest Share.