A labour of love

Building the Hazelnut Inn is a family affair and a labour of love. Detailing and theming every square inch, both inside and out, requires diverse skills and many thousands of hours of work. With the opening of the Under Hill Suite now less than a hundred work days distant, we are down to the smaller details. Most ‘themed’ accommodations include some exterior decor, matching curtains and bedspreads, some themed pictures hanging on the walls and perhaps a little fancy trim. We are doing so much more. But that does not mean we are skipping the matching curtains and bedspread. Quite the contrary.

Peter enlisted his mom, Janis, who has many decades of quilting experience, to make sure this job is done right. She also has more fabric in her vast collection than most quilting shops and all of the specialized equipment for the task. Lately, Peter and his mom have been picking patterns, cutting squares and deciding on the arrangement of the pieces for the bedspread, curtains and other fabric details around the room. These fabric pieces will add warmth and charm to the hand-crafted setting to make it even more special.

First tile in the Under Hill

It was another banner day at the Hazelnut Inn as Peter began the first tile work in the Under Hill Suite bathroom. As is our normal style, the tilework will not be typical or boring. Borders. diagonal tile and panel work will abound. While this isn’t the easy or fast way to lay tile, the results will be both colourful and amazing when we are done. Stay tuned for progress…

Two more sections ready to move out

Our talented painters polished off two more giant sections of the NEB’s wall today. We’ll let the paint fully cure in the warm shop over the weekend, but on Monday morning, they will head out into the parking lot to make room for the last frame, which holds two wall sections. We hope that by the end of next week, we will have all of the wall sections fully sculpted and ready for paint. It has been a busy week!