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The Ideal Cottage and Country Home Design Workbook No Compromise For Your Home When it comes to your home, or home-away-from-home, don't ever settle. Our design workbook will help walk you through your vision and give you the tools needed to best communicate with your design professional. It is the essential starting point for envisioning,…
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Week 18 and 19 Roof and Windows

Last week in preparation for the windows our builder covered the entire building with 1 ½” of blue foam board.  This provides an extra R7.5 insulation value to the wall (bringing the overall insulation to almost R30) and most importantly covers all the wood framing , which is about R5, removing what are called cold…
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WEEK 17 : Sewers!

Once installed, sewers are not sexy or even visible, but they are an essential component of the project. Also, due to a scheduling problem, we couldn’t build the front porches on Kippendavie until the sewers were in.  After waiting way more than considered usual, the utility stake-out was finally done.  (It’s really important that you…
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