We were asked to extensively renovate a century farmhouse located on 200 acres of rolling countryside in the area of Millbrook, Ontario. The renovation required a big addition to hold a kitchen and breakfast room, a mudroom, dining room with fireplace, and a porte cochere fronting the driveway. Adding onto a historic building is a kind of cosmetic surgery, succeeding when it appears that nothing has been done!

In the Dining Room, our renovation included laying down a new 12" pine plank floor, and building panelling in beaded wainscoting. The new fireplace mantle too was covered in the wainscot material, finished in milk paint, then hand-rubbed.

We put a new cedar shingle roof over the Addition and the original pioneer home. We cut in a number of new dormer windows at the upper floor, and built a bug-proof verandah at the ground floor, overlooking the pond.

All the doors inside the house are hand-made, using the same beaded woodwork from which the wainscoting was made. We found the door hardware in Quebec.