We are excited to let you know that we have created a google plus page for The Captain’s Manor Inn. We are looking forward to adding people and businesses to our circles as others join the google + application. So far some videos and pictures have been added to our page and more to come.
Google + |Cape Cod
January 18th, 2012 by trobinson
Winter Really Exists on Cape Cod
January 16th, 2012 by trobinson
It is bitterly cold out today! After an incredibly mild winter to date the artic freeze started yesterday and is in full force today. That has not stopped our wonderful framers from working hard to keep the addition on track. Over the weekend Kevin and I recruited our two young adult children to form a painting production line. The story is that we are replicating 174 brackets on the wrap around veranda and our architect had them made and shipped from Georgia. They arrived on Friday and had to all be painted by Monday for the framer to get them on the house in preparation for the siding work to begin. So here we are on Monday and the brackets are being attached as I write this. Some pictures of this part of our Cape Cod bed and breakfast project are shown below:
Captain’s Manor Inn | “Raise the Roof”
January 9th, 2012 by trobinson
Now things are really getting exciting!!! The weather continues to cooperate so that today the roof is being shingled and the windows are going in. It is so hard to believe that we are enjoying 50 + degree weather in Falmouth Cape Cod as we enter the second week of January. Certainly some would say global warming and others just chalk it up to crazy New England weather. Now that the addition is starting to be closed in it builds our confidence that we will keep the project on track. The other good thing is that we can avoid the crazy flood we experienced a couple of weeks ago when the rain came pouring down right into the 1st floor kitchen/pantry through the antique window because the drainpipe was removed where the new addition abuts the house. YIKES!!
I thought you might appreciate seeing the video of the little window waterfall and the new windows and roofing activity.
Captains Manor Inn Construction Update
January 2nd, 2012 by trobinson
Happy New Year to all!! The construction is moving along but as anyone who has been through it knows there are hiccups along the way 
Good news is that we just had the driveway initial paving done before winter hits (at this rate winter may not hit seeing as it was 50 degrees yesterday!). The hope is that in about one week the entire roof will be complete. At this time the roof is on the new veranda and the plywood sheathing is almost complete on the actual roof over the living areas. The cupola is also under construction on top of the new addition.
B&B Construction Update |2nd Floor Blueprint
December 12th, 2011 by trobinson
Thought you might enjoy seeing a blueprint of the 2nd floor as it will look when we add the new guest room on that floor and we add new bathrooms to the Canopy and Tuscany rooms.
Framing of our cape cod bed and breakfast addition underway
December 12th, 2011 by trobinson
The expansion of The Captain’s Manor Inn really seems to be coming to life now. The foundation is complete with the pouring of the ground level floor. The framing is well underway with the ground level and first level exterior walls complete. Hope you enjoy the pictures below
Holidays at Highfield | Falmouth Ma
December 7th, 2011 by trobinson
Just a short walk from the Captain’s Manor Inn the season of holiday merriment is in high swing at historic Highfield Hall! For the past two weekends, the mansion has hosted “Holidays at Highfield,” a chance to for the public to view the elegant rooms decked out in their holiday finest. Below are some wonderful photos of the decorations and handmade creches from all over the world.
Photos are from the Falmouth Patch and click here to see additional photos.
Renovation of Main Hall |Falmouth Ma
November 29th, 2011 by trobinson
The work on the Main Hall of The Captain’s Manor Inn is underway. The back set of stairs and the “necessary room” (also know has a half bathroom) have been removed as we prepare for the work to open the existing Inn to the new expansion area.
Wow what a difference and what a mess!!!! Dust everywhere
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- Necessary room demolished
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- Stairs still mostly intact
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- Stair demolition underway
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- Stairs are gone!
Construction Update – November 21
November 21st, 2011 by trobinson
Progress continues on the addition. Kevin kept everything on track while I had the chance to visit Ireland! Check out the pictures of the new veranda concrete piers being covered over with soil and the cutting of the concrete wall where the stairs will go to lead into the new garden level guest suite.
Stained Glass Window Preservation
October 29th, 2011 by trobinson
As we have been remodeling The Captain’s Manor Inn we are trying to reuse any significant features of rooms. So for example when we took the bathroom in the Canopy apart we saved the stained glass window and Kevin has been restoring it so we can then overlay it with exterior weather tight glass and use the window in the new front foyer.
Here is a picture of the window in progress
stained glass window