Little Cottage

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Feb. 13, 2011

First visit to check out the land and stream at low tide.

Neighbor shorebirds.

Very low tide. 

April 2011 - Land is purchased and we "move in". 

A few trees were downed to make room for our little cottage. 

Waking up in the tent at sunrise.  We love the simplicity and beauty of this place. 

Tim dreaming and planning.

And the work begins!

Parents came down for the weekend to help out. 

Lissette helped too.

Ta da!! the foundation is complete. 

Proud land owner.

April 22, 2011 - Cottage delivery 

May 2011 - Cottage work and fun at the beach. 

Gutter and rain barrel installed - May 7, 2011

All work and no play is no fun...so off to the beach we go!

I miss this hat, it was lost to the bay.

Almost there...mush!

Miles of untouched beach and loads of seashells. 

Trouble. Stranded in the middle of nowhere. 

Back at the cottage at last...

We're not alone out here.

May 14 - New tool shed.

High tide...looks like we really do have water view property. 

View of the cottage from the stream. 

July 10, 2011 Insulating the cottage

July 29, 2011 - Installing bamboo floors and bunkbeds

Our personal chef getting lunch ready. 

Guest house.  Maybe this is why no one visits us at the cottage :'(

HAPPY CAMPERS LIVE HERE!

Composting toilet.

August 2011 Dry wall work begins.

Bathroom framed out

October 2011 Solar panel install

2 pairs of 4x4's, 10' long, attached above the roof peak with very large barn hinges to straddle the roof (no holes into the roof this way)

Solar panel + frame mostly finished (windows still boarded up from Hurricane Irene prep)

Water pump filtration system for the rain barrels. 

Green hose directly from a rain barrel feeds into a water strainer (top right) into the 12volt pump into a water pressure accumulator, splitting between a garden hose (bottom left) and a 20 micron filter which splits again, another attachment for shower water (bottom center), then a 2 micron filter for water pumped into the cottage (bottom right). Power switch to activate pump (center middle) and waterproof 10amp fuse (center middle).

Success - Bathroom is painted and we have a light!

Outdoor Shower



Finished Interior