Author Archives: jholte

We were down to DuckAway in the fall of 2014 to see how everything was doing. We were also checking out our other oceanfront house in Duck, “Sea Notes” (www.seanotes.org). We were very pleased with all the great comments from … Continue reading →

Well, its been a long time since we have posted, but will try to summarize some of the things we have done for the upcoming 2014 season. We think we have made some significant changes and we are now ready. … Continue reading →

We had a great rental season for 2013 and had lots of very nice comments in the guest book. But, now for us, it is time to get back to work to make some more updates to DuckAway. One of … Continue reading →

So we are now pretty much ready for the new 2013 rental season. Most everything is in place. Most recently we have a brand new updated kitchen with quartz countertops and very nice new stainless appliances and new cabinets. The … Continue reading →

We decided that we wanted to make updates for two of the existing bathrooms. One bathroom is new with the construction and three more were with the existing house, one of which we had already made some changes. So we … Continue reading →

At this point the pool and construction are long done and we are doing a million things to get the house together. We have an all new driveway with lots of parking. We have replaced all the interior doors and … Continue reading →

A lot of things are finally coming together. By mid July the pool deck and been put down, the fence was put up and the equipment was installed (it took a little while longer to get a leak in the … Continue reading →

On one of our stays at the house on June 4 we got a call one morning that the pool would arrive early that afternoon about a week earlier than expected. The pool contractor himself had been surprised and had … Continue reading →

Well the construction isn’t moving as fast as we had hoped, there seems to be fits and starts with 2 or 3 weeks during which nothing happens until we get on their case. We also had a delay at one … Continue reading →

After we hired the contractor right at the end of January, we needed to have the plans drawn up and make the modifications and give our approval. Then the plans had to be submitted to the Town of Duck for … Continue reading →