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Island Cottage on Keewaydin Island Tour
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" To help Davey Florida artist you are -- many hats you you paint you scallop Q build furniture and you designed furniture and occasionally build a very whimsical -- Have a lot of fun building this one is able to do something that was done with dolphins and errands. From my other car you're gonna -- likely to come inside and they -- slide. You know the great white parents -- the most beautiful birth in Florida spotlight to use them. Building in the -- like they're very pretty yeah. Also the dolphin that's real nice touch that's very nice on the corner there well can we going to hear that your camera. This is fabulous huge screen porch and a wonderful view of the Gulf of Mexico. The flag waving in the wind draperies is come through his porch a porch -- the dimensions so attend but point four porch the whole width of the house. But -- around -- out your feet and you've got a huge white heron flying up there. That's sort of fly inherent that I make their review made to be viewed from the bottom and it made out of poplar and and a lacquered that's beautiful. Then let's see we have a great room through the French doors here come on in here. Both -- just the sort of the continuous part of the porch but -- the colors are spectacular. The blues and greens appeal to donors that the days that does go ahead and do whatever you want yeah and and all these colors that you make a lot of things in your like pesetas. Table. And this is a parent cable also like the rest of the Israeli air and it the car parent where there's a -- out there get oriented. And that's -- ought to fight this like most of my other furniture antique. Ficus tree for bottom. That's an actual stopped -- this very nice and the -- is laminated. You can make a retreat tools you can use a a grinder. -- Sanders and around at all yes no you reduction with a rather not these -- rather nice work yes thank you. Now did you also do this the mahogany I brought it mahogany trim doesn't give a little richness of the rooms and -- it be nice natural on this is that parents that are fighting over of fish here. Dueling parents dueling hearings for and then of course you've got a terrific window seat large. -- mahogany slab. Law that is all one board on this about a couple of boards like that I have another one right here 36 inches wide. A beautiful board lot of -- through it you for the counter yeah now. Overhead you've got these these look out that are also car parts hot evening gloves. Those apartment -- on top of the -- there and meet the sticking out about three to four feet so that after the job is done I go back and make. Whatever I want to out of them OK to just give up on the -- you car do you hand car number. Use a jig saw a grinder. And then finish sand and paint them you have to with power up there on the latter yeah. Very very exciting. And what about this did you make this fish this isn't something new I've been doing making fish. And this is made out of a piece of poplar. With Honduran mahogany fins yeah but the glass fire and it's from tax determines what kind of finish would it be this is sport fish show that they can try to around here at the permit. Apartment fish I've heard there -- good right to catch right we you know this would really look stunning something like this back at our little cracker cottage. Maybe hanging over the fireplace. Well you're that you we can negotiate fell here. We should shock at the so they kitchen is open on to the great room. And you get the great colors going through it on this is my favorite -- as far as the -- I -- the -- piece in the turquoise together with a blue and magnesium ladder at. -- different treatment on the three doors here that went scream at them. Lacquered used to stencil and read it clouds apparently. On there right -- sort of gives an old fashioned -- look to. How many bedrooms. It has two bedrooms and as a small. Loft and a master OK and this is a master of the master. Fine bed time."
" Well this is another example of using the cypress logs and I go out and cut evening and I'll make freestanding. Bets the same way that this is permanently attached fit with laws. I like the way the -- flares out they'll cypress -- that's the way to grow on the -- they are cut off below the water line yeah. And then how do you the -- well you'd use a skylight against the mark Kaufman phantom on down sure sure. Andy the collars and the rumors special you've got lavender and green and green and not allow her to her porch yeah very nicely and really have that feel of Key West -- you know in a tropical place going to lift the -- that we can look at. Look at this bench -- Tell me about it. With Borough president good friend of -- that -- and she takes and hand paints. And things at all if one is different and that she quilts them. She does these and rugs and clothing that's absolutely beautiful she's very talented as you make the cushions -- these -- themselves got so hated commissions. Something new she's making very that's color active wonderful just fabulous color yes. Now she's the artist to also painted this Florida -- no that's done -- friend of -- everybody city -- bum Gardner yes and she's very talented. Really committed to her artwork that's guy have seen guys like that she's she's good yeah of the ever to a yes let's back here."
" And we put the back porch on the -- to keep the weather off the building. Well it does get pretty windy on the gulf side sometimes. You can take immediately hear my advice to Hambrecht that's great you've got a whole school of dolphins over at. You know we cargoes out that two by twelve that make up the top of the kitchen in the bedroom you know the law designed to put down you've done a gorgeous job here."