The SECOND ANNUAL ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE takes place this Sunday in Milton, Delaware.
When I found this button on Green ClipArt, it hit home! My husband Bill is mostly Irish. I am half-Irish; it is Kathleen on St. Patrick's Day. AND, we are very green.
In addition to our real estate business, Bill and I also own a remodeling company called Gotcha Covered. Bill is absolutely committed to NO WASTE on our job sites.
EXTRA SIDING OR FLOORING? It goes into the shed or back to the vendor.
APPLIANCES BEING REPLACED? Into our shed for use in a rental, a fixer upper, or to be donated to a local Thrift Shop.
OLD WOOD? Removed from an attic or floor to be replaced? Saved for a future project. A new dining room table maybe?
BACK TO THE PARADE ON MARCH 15TH - LOOK FOR GOTCHA COVERED'S VAN WITH OUR GREEN ON!
HISTORIC COTTAGES moved to make way for new development? BUY THEM, move them and find a way to re-purpose them. IDEA- Design a new house by combining several small cottages on a new foundation. Remodel and update electrical, HVAC, kitchen and baths. Renovate porches, refinish the windows and doors, add insulation and some of that gorgeous leftover siding, add those appliances removed from an earlier remodeling project, and VOILA - an affordable 2 bedroom, 2 bath cottage with a front porch and a side porch. When complete, this home will be able to sell for around $150,000. With today's FIRST TIME HOME BUYER CREDIT, this will be a great starter home and it will have a history.
THE PHIL-MOOR COTTAGES were a fixture on Rehoboth Avenue in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. I have met so many people whose parents, grandparents, family and friends grew up renting a Phil-Moor cottage for their summer vacation at the beach. There have been cottage sightings reported in the local newspaper and the other day, a local reporter came to the job site to take pictures and find out what's going on. Now that all three of the cottages are in place on the new foundation, the remodeling work begins.
Where are the PHIL-MOOR Cottages now? They are in a little town called Ellendale, Delaware. Located just east of Rt. 113, one block off Rt. 16, Ellendale is experiencing renovation all over town. On Friday nights during the summer season, the beach traffic from Washington, DC, slows to 25 MPH as they cruise through town en route to Rehoboth Beach or Lewes for the weekend. We call these folk the "WEEKEND WARRIORS". When they get back up to speed, they pass the town of Milton about 8 miles East. That's the town we live in. When developers get back to work, the distance between Milton and Ellendale will shrink even more.
A few more miles and they intersect with Rt. 1 and head south. Another few miles and they can head east to Lewes. The Rehoboth Beach or Dewey Beach crowd continue south another few miles to their weekend getaway. On Rehoboth Avenue, where the PHIL-MOOR Cottages used to welcome earlier WARRIORS, that site now sits vacant and FOR SALE - no new townhouses were ever built. TOO LATE, the cottages have found a new home and they will become a home with a story for some lucky family soon.
When the siding is in place and the renovations have been complete, I'll post the rest of the story on this blog. We are planning to host a house-warming and invite the Rehoboth Beach Chamber of Commerce members and the press to toast the PHIL-MOOR Cottages past and future and put a good Irish Blessing on the property.
The moral of this story is - The Best Way to be Green is to REUSE and RECYLCE.
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