David Milne Schoolhouse Story | Open Houses/Events
The Schoolhouse Story 2009 - FOR SALE
http://www.paisleyschoolhouse.ca/
Back in the summer of 2005 when my husband of 14 years left me, I came home to Canada to visit family and lick my wounds. My mom, sister and I met in the beach town of Southampton, Ontario. I departed from our restorative visit using Bruce Rd 3 south toward Toronto and eventually back to Baltimore, Maryland. Just north of a small village called Paisley, in Bruce County, I spied a dilapidated yellow-brick schoolhouse for sale: ugly, vacant and damaged by every owner before me with a bad idea and no money with which to carry that ill-conceived idea out, I had my sister scope it out for me.
Someone had helpfully scrawled the asking price on the sign: $69,900.00. Hey! I thought, I can afford that with money left over to renovate! ........ Three years, too much money and lots of unforeseen hiccups later the house is complete. Two bathrooms, a sleeping loft, master bedroom on the main floor, great room with a wood burning stove, geothermal heating and cooling, steel roof and self-seeding wildflower meadow in place of a lawn, this house embodies the green trend toward small yet stylish homes.
This is now where I live and work. And though the project nearly killed me and all but emptied my bank account, I love the place and am very proud of what my vision produced.
I currently offer one-day workshops, various gal's activities and bed and breakfast services at the schoolhouse.
View my gallery of rugs by appointment only. Call 519 353 7470 or email micheline@mannmadestudios.com.
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original entry
old shed
Removing windows
Masonry
old kitchen
interior Aug 2006
second floor
floor joists removed
Tree planting day
finished exterior
new evergreens
new entry
driftwood fixture
chandelier
sleeping loft
from the loft
thrift shop bleachers
barn door slider
barn door
amateur paintings
collections
utensil collection
kitchen kitsch
harvest table
great room
stove
artist studio
corn fields
renovated exterior