Guest Cottage Construction Season is Ending....

It's currently mid-October and we are, once again, in Maine to continue completion of our Little 'g' Cottage.  My goodness, it's coming along nicely (albeit, it has taken MUCH longer than originally anticipated)!

If you've never offered-up your body & soul to a stick-built construction project, then you're missing out on something completely exhausting, yet completely fulfilling.  Watching this project morph and take-on its own personality has been one of the very best parts, IMO.  Anything can look great on paper, but once those lofty ideas are permanently constructed, then filled-in and changed and added-to, it becomes something else entirely.  It might still resemble what was on that paper....but, then again, it might not.  How much fun you have with it (and how little hair is wrenched from your scalp in the process) completely depends upon your eye for design and your ability to quickly think on your feet.

This cottage project certainly tested my design 'eye', as well as my ability to almost instantaneously switch gears and move forward in a completely different direction.  I've had (too) many headaches, agonizing over 'but how can I do that NOW?!'. 

Being such a small space, only 16'x24', maximizing every square foot was a crucial challenge.  Much like a tiny house, things had to fit, but make practical sense.  My original design, on paper, took months to perfect.  Then our builder changed a few significant dimensions during the construction process and my perfect puzzle became a hot mess!  A few inches or half-of-a-foot doesn't seem like much until it comes to construction!  None of my measurements now worked.  Nothing was going to fit where it was supposed to fit!  I'm not going to lie, it took me a while to RE-calculate and determine how to shift things and how our little cottage would ever function.  Lots of nail-biting and wine, let me tell you.  But the frustration is all vapor now, because it has come together nicely and I'm pleased with the final result (AND I still have all of my hair!  Win!).

Little 'g' Cottage is diminutive in size, yet I hope that our guests will find it to be charming and relaxing, because that's what's most important to us.  No one wants to go on vacation and not feel relaxed & revitalized. 

​Our rental season opening is slated for late Spring of 2023 and we'll offer-up photographs as soon as we have everything properly in its place and looking spiffy!

​'Til next year, folks!!