And the winner is......

Well here it is everyone.  Wednesday we FINALLY received the email stating if we won or not.  For anyone interested here is the 8 page document:


But if you don't feel like reading all of that....

WE WON!!!!!  🎜Celebrate good times, COME ON! It's a celebration!🎜 We have been on cloud 9 ever since.  Over a year of fighting and almost everyone we know saying "Why are you STILL fighting about this?!" Or "You know you aren't going to win right?" we have our ruling and we can FINALLY put in the door we have, where we want, where it makes the most sense for a home, NOT a church.  This decision was a long time coming.  We knew from the start that this was the only reasonable place to put the door, and we always felt the bylaws allowed for it.  It's nice to be vindicated by this highest level of appeal (other that the courts).  Moving forward we hope to continue working with the town to save this historic building, and hopeful we won't see these types of roadblocks again.

I'm not going to lie.  This whole thing has been so hard.  Many times it's felt like we were the only ones who worried what happens to this big, beautiful building.  Multiple times we discussed other options we had, with nothing feeling right. We discussed different places to put the door, insetting the door in the space we want it, we even discussed tearing down the whole building and building new since it felt like we were hitting roadblocks everywhere.  We are insisting a building that was never designed to be a house, become a home. Without our intervention this place likely would have been left to rot or worse, torn down and condos erected in it's place.  But let's not dwell.  We won!  Let's look to the future!

So what does this mean?  Well, William called he best friend who also happens to have his own construction business (he knew this call was coming if we won) and they set up when he and his crew could come out.  Sounds like Thursday next week might be the day if everything goes to plan. Good thing we have been super busy with demolition otherwise we would be in panic mode. For anyone who has forgotten, this is the next space (or phase II) we will be working on.

It looks so different now from when I took this picture, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.  This post is celebrating we won and the door is going in.

The Church Reno Adventure is back in full swing!!