I haven't been posting as much but I do still read every
day. I just thought I'd send an update to those of you who
might be interested...
We sold the country manor house (those of you at the Vermont
Cook-In will remember it) last fall in preparation for
building our dream home (without a pool, and a little more
than a third of the size of the manor house). We looked for
land all through the fall, until the snow made that too
difficult. Then I started again this spring. It was really
hard because the best bits of land in the places we wanted
to live were just way expensive.
So at the beginning of May we found the right parcel, made
and offer, and it was accepted. We closed on June 1st. Our
builder is starting construction on or around the 15th. If
there are setbacks and weather delays, we should be in
around mid to late October.
So I'm finally getting to build my dream kitchen and walk-
in pantry.
The kitchen is around 24X12 and the pantry is 6X13. I'll
have an electric double wall oven, and a gas stovetop
insert in the peninsula (no appliance decisions have been
made yet). The whole thing will be open to the living area
(so it's going to be a great room), and it'll have
cathedral ceilings.
The work triangle is a bit large, but it's not really all
that bad because it'll be handicap accessible with plenty of
room for turn radius (we plan on growing old in this house),
and several cooks to do things, which is nice.
The parcel is completely wooded with a mix of coniferous and
deciduous trees, and it's got a very gentle slope. We're not
sure if we'll get our walk out basement but I'm hoping so.
Probably I'll have another Cook-In after it's been built and
we're settled, if anyone's interested. 🙂
--
Siobhan Perricone "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."
- Wolfgang Pauli, on a paper submitted by a physicist
colleague