The Renovation Continues....Part 3

On Tuesday, the 21st of February, the project enters its 8th week. We are totally rehabbing 4 rooms, an upstairs bath and the work has crept into another bedroom and bath now as well. I am bolting all the doors to the other rooms so we can stop any further expansion and see an end to this project. >>> See more pictures here

Stepping into the kitchen, bared down to its studs brought us back 20 years to what the space looked like when we bought the derelict Tuck Inn. It had been foreclosed and vacant when we found it. We gave the kitchen new life then and it is getting another rebirth now. We feel like caretakers of this historic property and now it will be ready for the 21st century.

The 4 rooms downstairs are now plastered and they await the paint crew this week. More new windows will go in, including a roof window above the new tub in the Cathedral/Honeymoon Suite so you can gaze at the stars as you laze in the tub. We finally found someone to give the GARLAND stove a go-over. It will go to Nashua, N.H. on Tuesday for a complete rehab. Getting the 500-600 lb. stove out the door and up onto a truck will be a challenge. We feel the stove is the soul of Tuck Inn's kitchen. You can't imagine how many repair shops and workmen told us to chuck it and get a new one. Can you imagine replacing this 50+ year old work horse. We want it to be around for the next 50 years baking delicious breakfast goodies as well.

The carpentry should all be completed this week including the remaining doors in the laundry, new kitchen banquette, trim and finish work. As we await the cabinets and the new appliances which are due around the second week of March now, we hope to conentrate on the new check-out area in the guest kitchen. We have yet to decide the layout for this area. This is the space beside the wall map with all the pins noting homes of guests. In that space will be our phone, reservation book, computer, printer, answering machine and all the things that need to be secured nightly as new laws require us to protect guest information.

This past week Laura and Scott chose countertop and backsplash materials. It will be appropriate for a kitchen in Rockport, Massachusetts. We can't wait for all our returning guests to see what we have been creating all winter. Stay tuned for more on the continuing saga....