The last of this season’s projects have now been safely loaded and sent on their way. This means we have time to do a deep cleaning and organization inside the shop, Outside the painting crew is making great progress on a total repaint of the twenty-year-old shop. It will all feel brand new when we are done - just in time to start work on next year’s projects in mid-September.
Making the dream real
While I spend time in Ontario dreaming up some new projects the crew is busy back home making others real. They spent their day in the Under Hill Suite of the Hazelnut Inn tying lath onto the complex armatures that form the roots and rocks of the walls and ceiling. Keith sits on an overturned bucket as he works on the area above the big soaker tub. To the untrained eye, it looks like a jumble of steel and wire but things are quickly taking shape. It won’t be long until we begin the sculpting. Stay tuned…
Next project!
Peter and I are often asked which is our favourite project. The answer never varies… the next one! While we look back on countless amazing projects we always anticipate the next. The next project will undoubtedly take us where we’ve never been before. It will raise our bar higher than ever. Each new project will challenge us as never before. Today, I had the privilege to dream about exciting projects for next year and beyond with two clients. Ideas were shared and discussed, and they were designed and redesigned on the fly as we chatted. Anything is possible at this stage and as we explored various ideas I scribbled frantically in my sketchbook creating ‘notes’ that would guide me as things progress in the coming days and weeks. We made wonderful progress and settled on the beginnings of some wonderful projects. I enclose one of those sketches for your enjoyment… This is going to be fun and will most definitely be a favourite project…. until the next one…
