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Last replied
5 Apr 2023
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Description
Warm and inviting, creative, professional family home with loving pets.
Gardens, beautiful kitchen, real food.
Always guests, friends, and family around.
Historic, waterfront city with universities/college, culture and magnificent opportunities for recreation.
Safe, friendly neighbourhood with lots of parking.
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will have the pleasure of being in our simple, easy going home, warm with candlelight on most days.
Cat, dog, chickens in the back yard.
Wonderful kitchen and wholesome food.
Quiet street with community garden, soccer fields, track and outdoor swimming pool near by.
Friendly neighbours.
House is generally pretty quite. Busy on week day mornings with getting ready for school and work.
Sometimes music, sometimes watching movies/TV online.
We like to laugh :).
Young people, friends and family of all ages, coming and going plus regular guests.
We love hosting travelers and invite you to make yourself at home.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
Several Opportunities - No Deadlines
Welcoming experienced painters to do interior work with Allback linseed oil paint.
Two bedrooms, stairwell, centre hall, living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom - including ceilings, trim and several windows.
This is beautiful paint, waiting for right person to apply with care and love.
Project could be extended to finish up some exterior work.
Unskilled prep possibilities for all of these projects - washing walls, sanding, digging etc.
We are ready to install a new bath tub. Job will require some carpentry, plumbing and tile work.
Plan for 50' of fencing, tent and yoga platform, garden gym.
We would love for a creatively skilled individual or team to come and design two building projects for us.
First is a small third story look out / sleeping loft to side of our home.
Second is to turn a cinder block garage into yoga studio / guest home with outdoor storage.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Accommodation
Accommodation depends on when you come and who else is staying here - there may be a bedroom ;-).
At the very least, warm and cozy basement space is usually available.
Backyard tenting or hammocking if it isn't cold and snowy (unless that appeals) is also always a possibility.
CLEAN, COMFORTABLE BEDDING PROVIDED AND WASHED BIWEEKLY.
You will have full access to our home including Wifi, laundry and kitchen.
Overnight accommodation for about four hours of help a day would be great - a little more if we are providing food and making meals - a little less if you would like to cook for us.
What else ...
We are a 30 minute walk to historic downtown Kingston, Queen's University, Lake Ontario waterfront and all amenities including gyms, sports fields, Boiler Room climbing gym, yoga studios, lots of live music, Screening Room, Grand Theatre, Isobel Bader Performing Arts Centre, museums, galleries, restaurants, cafes, craft breweries, Tara Foods, beautiful parks, historic City Hall farmers market on Saturdays and local Memorial Centre farmers market just down the street on Sundays.
Lots of near by exploring, Wolfe Island, Amhearst Island (sheep farm pic), 1000 Islands, Gould Lake (pic), Frontenac Park, Rideau Canal World Heritage Site, Prince Edward County.
Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto are day trips.
Algonquin Park, Bon Echo Park.
New York City a five-hour drive.
Bus stop 2 minutes away.
Lots of parking.
Enterprise Car Rental at 600 Princess Street - very friendly and helpful.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (5)
Second of all: I am sorry I am so late (totally forgot posting a Feedback to my wonderful time with Kara! - but here we go:)
This was my first workway ever and I could not have a better start into this cool way of traveling!
I stayed 2,5 weeks at Karas place and from the first day on it was really nice!
I helped her… read more
we got back to Germany and wanted to say thank you again.
We had a very good time. We had to laugh a lot with you and Adriana. The house is cute and so is everything around the house. We fell in love with Kingston, the beach, the surroundings and enjoyed our time and the work.
Zoey, 10: I liked the beds. I shared a room with my sister.… read more
She is a being of light, who transmits peace, light, love and joy ... through her beautiful house, the dogs, the cats, plants, garden, every thing, you can feel it, if you pay attention to every detail from the silence of your heart ...
An experience of Mindfulness, every day... and the meal, oh… read more
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Second of all: I am sorry I am so late (totally forgot posting a Feedback to my wonderful time with Kara! - but here we go:)
This was my first workway ever and I could not have a better start into this cool way of traveling!
I stayed 2,5 weeks at Karas place and from the first day on it was really nice!
I helped her… read more
we got back to Germany and wanted to say thank you again.
We had a very good time. We had to laugh a lot with you and Adriana. The house is cute and so is everything around the house. We fell in love with Kingston, the beach, the surroundings and enjoyed our time and the work.
Zoey, 10: I liked the beds. I shared a room with my sister.… read more
She is a being of light, who transmits peace, light, love and joy ... through her beautiful house, the dogs, the cats, plants, garden, every thing, you can feel it, if you pay attention to every detail from the silence of your heart ...
An experience of Mindfulness, every day... and the meal, oh… read more
It was my first Workaway experience in September and it was just great!
I was so happy to found her, she was so flexible with the arrival time even when I decided because of my situation to come very spontanieous. At first she didn't had any space in her house for one more person because she already… read more
Communication was excellent - before arrival and throughout their stay.
From the moment these two arrived it felt like having the dearest of family and friends in our home.
Mature beyond their years.
The best of workers.
Emilio and Eugenio welcomed numerous… read more
Since the moment we got in touch Kara was super nice and always seeing for us!
Me and my twin brother stood in Kingston for a month, and probably one of the best one of our life.
Since learning more about camping with Theo, improving with Kara our painting techniques, Farming and Gardening with Andrew,… read more
