Miss Windsor

As I sit here today, waiting for our next chapter to start, I’m looking back at this past year. So much has happened. Starting in May of 2025, a very strong wind and rainstorm hit our home. We had just finished installing and painting our ceiling in our back room. The storm hit so hard that the rain was coming sideways, hitting our bedroom window so hard it was coming in around the sills and pouring onto our floor. Then, a few days later, as I was coming from my laundry room, I looked up to see the newly installed ceiling sagging. I didn’t want to say anything to Tony, but I had to. So we did as any homeowner would do, we called our insurance company. Sorry, Sir, “We don’t cover wind-driven rain”. As the roofers were finishing our roof, we flew away to see family.

Just before all of this happened, we had decided to move. My least favorite thing to do! But we know we are too far from our closest family members, our daughter’s family, and our youngest son and his family. They live about two and a half hours south of us in New Braunfels, Texas. We will be moving as soon as our house sells.

We’ve purchased a 40-ft park model trailer; it’s sitting in our daughter’s very large driveway. We will move it to a resort near them and live there until we take the next step of finding land.

Since we returned from our trip in June of 2025, we have been working nonstop to get our house ready to sell. This included the bathroom, the back room, the guesthouse, and the backyard, along with many other items, most of which required painting. We literally finished the day our realtor put up the sign.

Speaking of our realtor, Alicia Trotter. She was a referral, and I have never seen someone work harder. She is amazing.

The following is a before-and-after of our home. Thank you for your patience and for following our pathway through our cottage journey. I will post our next journey if you let me know that’s something you would like.

Exterior

 

 

 

Living Room

The front bedroom/den has not been covered in the previous post. It was one of the last projects we did. Refigured the closet and trimmed it in with the matching door trim throughout the house. I color-washed the room and installed new window shades.

Dinning Room

Hall Bathroom.

Guestroom and hallway outside of the bathroom.

Kitchen

The backroom where we spend most of our time. This is the room that we had started with, the ceiling of which was damaged by the storm. We also had to deal with our awkward bathroom that led to our primary bedroom. We actually had to go through it to get to our room. We converted the bathroom closet into a hallway. We were able to make the closet in our room much bigger by using space from the bathroom. It makes sense in the pictures. I also color-washed both the bathroom and the hallway.

Found vintage-inspired wallpaper for the backroom and beadboard for the walls, and paint to match the ceiling and doors. I’m really embracing the color-wash look. Tony installed the wallpaper and said he’ll never install wallpaper again. We moved the kitchen entrance early on and obviously removed the bathroom door. We did put a door in the hallway. By doing so, it does give the primary bedroom the feel of a suite.

Behind the bi-fold doors is my laundry room. Tony found the cabinet doors in the attic being used to hold stuff, lol. So I painted them.

Bathroom

In the primary bedroom, you will see in these pictures the old entrance to the bathroom.

 

Backyard and Porch

The Guesthouse, new crown molding, and paint.

    

And we’re DONE!

It’s been quite the journey, and I can’t believe it’s been four full years since we came to live in this very special cottage. We call her Miss Windsor because our street is named Windsor Ave. With every product, I would say we’re giving her a new life. That’s what others say when they’ve come for a visit or when our neighbors walk by. People would often tell us that they loved walking by to see what we’ve been doing. We are going to miss her, and I pray her next owners treat her well.

We are just Miss Windsor’s caretakers for now. I think she’s looking pretty good for 101 years old.