the domino effect ...

The last time I blogged we were working on the kitchen. Well things were happily moving along then we hit a snag. As I went to order our new fridge we realized that none of our doors were wide enough to get a new, larger refrigerator into the house!

I filled Mike in on our dilemma and he just very matter of factly said "well I'll just go ahead and install the new front door."

While this might sound like a simple solution I should explain that it wasn't just a matter of widening the door opening and installing our new door. The front entrance was actually moving.

This is how our house was configured when we moved in. You can see that the entrance is on the side, not the front. Silly us, we actually wanted the front door on the front of our house.

So given this task Mike decided that he should just go ahead and reframe for the new windows too. In a matter of hours we went from the picture above to this ...

Needless to say there was a mad scramble about 10:00 Saturday night to get some plywood up on the front of our house to close things in ... and to keep the neighbourhood critters out!

Sunday, with the help of our fantastic neighbour Bob, Mike got the front sheathed and wrapped and all of the windows installed. Yesterday the door went in.

The windows and door still need to be trimmed out and the siding put back on. Then the old door will be removed and the wall repaired.

This was a whole lot of action for one weekend ... only in the Crooked Cottage can the house get a partial face lift to accommodate the purchase of a new fridge!

Next spring the work will continue on the upper level. We will be taking the roof off of the front of the house and raising the roof line up to the height of the main structure. New windows to match the ones we just installed will also be going in.