Renovations in North Cowichan

North Cowichan spreads across farmland, forest, and waterfront rather than gathering into one town centre, so properties run from working farmhouses to newer waterfront builds and small rural subdivisions. Access, grade, and ageing outbuildings shape the work, and projects here are often as much about the outside of a property as the rooms within it.

Properties out here are spread across grade and gravel, and the outside of a place usually needs more attention than the rooms do: fence lines that have grown into the treeline, waterfront decks and railings that the wind gets at, and sheds and barns that are either worth repairing or worth taking down. Deciding which of those it is comes first, and it is rarely obvious from the driveway.