A few months have passed since I've moved into my new home... and I have neglected to publish a single post about its progress! Life has been busy - full of new home-owner responsibilities as well as the challenges of several jobs (lots of new bills to pay, after all) and time slipped by faster than I realized.
The renovation is a huge work in progress, so every now and then I need to take some steps back and keep everything in perspective. The shiny new laminate flooring will get completed one of these days, and in the meantime, I'm enjoying the first-things-first, not-so-visually-appealing necessities of a functioning kitchen and bathroom. Things like insulation, pipe trenching, and plugging up holes in the roof add a whole new appreciation for the adage "comfort before beauty"!
And yet, even while the holes are plugged with aluminum foil and the clapboard walls beg for a coat of paint, it's transformed from a trailer to a home. Despite the hiccups in reno, it's become quite a cozy little hobbit-hole, and I've done my best to furnish and arrange things in a pleasant, welcoming sort of way. So many helpful things have been supplied by kindly friends and family, excited to usher me in to this new adventure: towels and soap, eggs and vegetables, afghans and tablecloths each add a unique touch to my "patchwork house" - little reminders here and there of the support and generosity I've been blessed to experience.
Trailers are hard to photograph, as I have discovered, but I will do my best to post some as well as posting about the various adventures here at Canterbury.
Because, of course, there are many to be had! :D
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