Back Inn Business

I got to thinking about my Inn and what the Innkeepers I had spoken with advised.  Their number one recommendation was that, if I wanted to make any money, I had to have 15 rooms or more.  This was certainly a loftier ideal than I had envisioned.  I preferred the idea of a small, manageable Inn.  

But that would prove a Financial Loss instead of a WIN...which meant my vision would leave my bank account vacant rather than fully booked.  THAT was unrealistic. 

So my Sweet Dream would need a Major Renovation, which would include a much larger investment than I'd originally thought.  That challenge before me, I decided it could still be done.  So I re-drafted my Imaginary Blueprint to include a larger Inn and began to design it in my mind.

As part of my initial one-month Goal List, I had pulled catalog pages of decor that I liked.  My Inn would be Nantucket Style with a heavily French Flair.  This was the part I loved MOST!  

Distressed wide-planked wood floors, with simple cream colored trim throughout the house.  Every hardware would be polished nickel or oil-rubbed bronze.  Outside in back would sit a vineyard style farmhouse table where my Guests would gather over wine (I'd happily join them).  Inside the Kitchen and Dining Room, the counters would be French Farmhouse style in honed Carrera marble with a Breakfast Bar over which to converse - coupled with another Farmhouse style table for group seating.

Each room would have a themed-name.  Maybe something French, maybe something else.  The Ballard Inn used names like The Valley Room, The Equestrian Room and the like.  I adored this idea and had to think of something great!  My rooms would be similar in clean, modern cottage style - with different color schemes.  Oh, my God, how I LOVE to decorate!

I was scheduled (according to my time-line Goals) to hire an architect to draw up plans for my Inn quite soon.  Finances might make this hard because it would undoubtedly be quite an expense.  But I was ready to look into it - for I knew that when I could "SEE" my Sweet Dream in black and white...it would seem that much more within reach.

Sweet Dreams, 

Me

"Dreams are illustrations...from the book your sould is writing about you." - Marsha Norman