For those of you who are interested as to how an adventure such as building a B&B begins - here is our story.

We purchased the property where Wildflowers Bed & Breakfast now sits primarily as an investment. Thinking we would put in the "services" hydro/septic etc. then resell somewhere in the future. Purchasing the property on Darcy's birthday 1994 should have been our first clue that this place was special. The more often we visited the more the land appealed to us and we decided to build. Drawing up the floor plans ourselves we started to build in January 1995 and moved into our new home on July 15th. We did a lot of the work ourselves - painting, tiling, hardwood floors, etc. It was a wonderful feeling to look around and see our own handy work.

Promising the use of the grounds to a cousin for her wedding the following August prompted us to get the gardens together. Although the grounds looked spectacular for the wedding, we find ourselves revamping or adding new features each year.

We had thought about doing a B&B in the main house so the design was such that there was 2 bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor. When we really started to research what we liked in a B&B the most important thing is privacy!! So this is how the Dream began.

In February of 1999 we began to build. We used the same very good friend builder/designer, that transformed our ideas into the house, to help us with this project. It is one thing to have the vision in our heads and another to portrait that vision to the builders. We had collected the design ideas on our travels to Thailand and Indonesia. We began to collect all the finishing articles as soon as we decided to build.

We used the wood that we cut down for the building site for the posts on the covered decks, and the siding on the units. The doors themselves came from a very old building in Vancouver that was being dismantled. The Versatile Shipyards. The pine bathroom doors were a sub floor that had been covered for many, many years so the wood was in great condition. The entrance doors was the electricians workbench. It is wonderful first growth timber that has had a long history, and now, a new beginning.

  
As with the house we did a lot of the work ourselves. All the main floor areas our tiled by us and we had "painting parties" with friends for the interior walls. All the siding and exterior finishing pieces were painted in our garage. We also cut all the scalloped shingles that are decorating the exterior peaks and hand painted them. With some minor set backs (couldn't let you think that a project like this doesn't have a hitch or two!!!) we opened August 21st 1999.

We love to travel, meet people, and entertain so the B&B is a great way for us to do those things from the comfort of our home. Our wish for our guests is that they feel pampered and relaxed during their stay with us, and return time and time again.