Renovating Redwing

Hubby and I have been together for nine years (wonderful years, I should say, as I’m writing this on Valentine’s Day!) It was eight years ago that he drug me out of suburbia an into a ramshackle old farmhouse that was inhabited by mice, bats, bee hives, owls and giant bird eating huntsman, as I liked to call them after first screaming, pointing and running.

There was orange and green carpet, faded curtains, a toilet out the back, a shower out the front and a bath out the side (where all the water ran into the foundations). There was also light coming through the cracks, a falling down fence and ninety nine huge pine trees surrounding the ‘house’, plus a multitude of brown snakes living under them. Now I’m an animal lover from way back, but this was taking it a little far…

I swear you can see the spiders hanging under the verandah!

 

So… sink or swim? And swim we did! Renovating Redwing began in 2005 and since then we have turned our run down ‘wildlife shelter’ into a gorgeous 1860s country home. Along the way we somehow got hooked on this renovating thing and have completed a bed and breakfast (Redwing BnB), renovated our building for The Miners Couch to move into, and have just about completed our second bnb, Redwing Barn.  We well and truly have the renovating bug and I’ve had a lot of people ask me to blog about our projects…so please stay tuned!

She sure has come a long way! Stay tuned for pics of the inside :)











Would love to have wedings here one day!