Last fall we purchased an older mobile home to use for staff accommodation. We have been working on repairs and upgrading it so that it doesn’t shout 1970!
We didn’t expect to find so many things wrong with it though. So now we are replacing the sub-floor, some of the insulation, wall panelling, and floor covering. We are also repainting the entire thing and building a covered deck off the front. It should look fairly nice when we are done. over the summer we will paint the outside too. Right now it is a hideous shade of MINT green.
Actually, Kim’s mom is doing a lot of the work. She is demo-ing and painting the entire place. Kim’s dad is building the bunk beds for the staff.
We have 4 workers arriving on May 9th so we have a short time frame to get it all done. On top of that we discovered (during the rain the other day) that the roof of the market is starting to leak badly. Worse. Many customers will know that it started to leak last summer, but it has progressed over the winter to a flood situation! So we now need to replace the roofing on the market before we open that part in July.
We are needing to furnish the staff house too. We are looking for kitchen chairs, coffee tables, kitchen supplies (cutlery, plates, coffee mugs etc) and patio furniture in ‘good as new’ condition. Most of it we hope to find through family and friends, but we will purchase all new bedding and towels. We just purchased 6 new mattresses from “Sleepers Mattress Factory” in Regina. They build everything in Saskatoon and actually use cotton in the construction rather than a lot of petroleum based foams.
If anyone has some nice furniture (i.e. from the last decade!) please let us know.
cheers
