HANGEYE
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Be patient with me on this one, I'm not very good with these computer things.
My wife and I have a little piece of heaven that we have been working on for our retirement.
The back story is, my father was born and raised in the area and bought a small piece of property not far from the home he was born and raised in. This was originally owned by his father. His sister and her husband bought the farm and my Father bought a piece of the property in 1957. It started with a hunting camp (you can read about it in the KARMA thread under WISCONSIN DEER HUNT). When my Father retired, he put a mobile home on the property for the summer months and through the grace of some wonder people in Alabama, spent his winters there with my Mother. With the passing of my Father and me working full time, and living 150 miles away, the mobile home started showing its age. I did every thing I could to keep the place livable for mom, but the day came when it was obvious that something had to be done. I was NOT going to allow my Mother to live in a s%&# hole.
I went through the process of getting the permits to build a proper home for my Mother. As I was at the lumber yard to order lumber for the build, I got into a conversation with another customer. He had a "cottage" about 7 miles from our land that he was going to replace with a new home (think McMansion here). His plan was to tear down the cottage and build the new home. It was going to take about a week to tear down the cottage and it would cost him about $3000 for the removal. I asked him ......
If I could have it gone in 3 days, could I have it? He agreed immediatly and we shook hands. I have a friend in the area that moves building, gave him a call and 2 days later the cottage was delivered to my property. That week end I preped for the footings, the following weekend the footings were poured. One week later, I laid the block. The week end after the block were laid, the cottage was set in place. By now my back side is draggin. Took a couple weeks off to recoup and get some ideas about what to do with the interior. It was a bit of a cobble job to say the least. I gutted the place and started over. It had 2 bedrooms and a closet. The bathroom was an outhouse. It now has 2 bedrooms and a full bath. (sorry, I lost the SD card with the build pics of the interior).
From here, I'll TRY to post some pictures of the progress, but like I said I'm not too good at this, so bare with me.
My wife and I have a little piece of heaven that we have been working on for our retirement.
The back story is, my father was born and raised in the area and bought a small piece of property not far from the home he was born and raised in. This was originally owned by his father. His sister and her husband bought the farm and my Father bought a piece of the property in 1957. It started with a hunting camp (you can read about it in the KARMA thread under WISCONSIN DEER HUNT). When my Father retired, he put a mobile home on the property for the summer months and through the grace of some wonder people in Alabama, spent his winters there with my Mother. With the passing of my Father and me working full time, and living 150 miles away, the mobile home started showing its age. I did every thing I could to keep the place livable for mom, but the day came when it was obvious that something had to be done. I was NOT going to allow my Mother to live in a s%&# hole.
I went through the process of getting the permits to build a proper home for my Mother. As I was at the lumber yard to order lumber for the build, I got into a conversation with another customer. He had a "cottage" about 7 miles from our land that he was going to replace with a new home (think McMansion here). His plan was to tear down the cottage and build the new home. It was going to take about a week to tear down the cottage and it would cost him about $3000 for the removal. I asked him ......
If I could have it gone in 3 days, could I have it? He agreed immediatly and we shook hands. I have a friend in the area that moves building, gave him a call and 2 days later the cottage was delivered to my property. That week end I preped for the footings, the following weekend the footings were poured. One week later, I laid the block. The week end after the block were laid, the cottage was set in place. By now my back side is draggin. Took a couple weeks off to recoup and get some ideas about what to do with the interior. It was a bit of a cobble job to say the least. I gutted the place and started over. It had 2 bedrooms and a closet. The bathroom was an outhouse. It now has 2 bedrooms and a full bath. (sorry, I lost the SD card with the build pics of the interior).
From here, I'll TRY to post some pictures of the progress, but like I said I'm not too good at this, so bare with me.
