The inside walls are now all done with beautiful tongue and groove pine lumber. We wanted the pine to stay the lovely fresh sawn lumber colour, so we stained it with white stain. Natural pine and varnish always yellow and we wanted to prevent that.We have an amazingly deep window sill ( plants will go there next year), racks to hang the saddle pads on, horse shoe holders for bridles, halters, lunge equipment ( for all you non-horsey people, including Francis, its just "stuff"), coat hooks for rain jackets and sweaters.
It was quite comical really when the lumber was being installed on the walls and ceiling. We had done a calculation for just the walls initially, and this is what we purchased. We figured the door and window areas would be almost the same area as the ceiling and so we would have enough-- well not quite. We were about " 3-4 boards short" or so we thought. So off we went to get the boards and we brought home 6 boards. More than enough say we...... but sure enough we ran short by one board... so off we went again the next day to get the one we needed to finish everything
Francis decided all the walls needed to be insulated "just in case" we ever decide he horses are staying year round.
If you look closely at the photo above, you can read what Francis wrote in our "time capsule"-- "Built Aug 13,2016 by Francis Belanger for Sue Bow XX little heart and Marina Laliberte"
We have a couple of plastic shelving units (cheap, nothing fancy) that we use to hold our grooming boxes, tack cleaning supplies and horsey first aid kit. This will sound terrible considering my occupation (an Emergency Room nurse), but I don't have a human first aid kit there(oops).
The finishing touches include some old horse pictures which have not been hung yet ( they used to be in my living room) and the two plastic lounge chairs. I went digging in the crawl space and found two old hunt print cushions to complete the seating section. When sitting in the chairs it is possible to see the horses through the doorway...
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Birthday cake and Beer! |
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left hand side and outside wall |
"The lounge"- right hand side of room
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