So here we are. After only two years in a brand new house we have packed up the kids and moved to an old house by the beach. Are we crazy? Probably. But life is an adventure and we are up for the challenge. This will be the journal of our journey in restoring this diamond in the rough.

The picture in the blog header was the original cottage. We were told that in the 1970's it was jacked up, a foundation put underneath and an addition built on the back. The cottage was then used as a year round family home from that point on. This is what our home currently looks like.

Why the "Crooked Cottage"? Because it is! Due to some questionable structural work our house sags slightly in the middle. There is also a hump in the livingroom floor because of a poorly supported post that has dropped. The first order of business is getting crawl space specialists to jack up the support beams under the cottage.

Well, that's actually the second order of business. The first was tearing out some retro ugly that had to go. We're talking wall-to-wall ceiling tiles. Before we even had a box in the door Mike had the livingroom ceiling torn down. The kitchen was next. The carpets also found their way out the door relatively quickly.

It certainly has been a chaotic move-in!