A lot of photos from the past week. Most recent first, in the spirit of the blog.
As you can see, we have bullnose corners on the drywall, and I wanted the trim angled in the same way. It was a bit picky for the carpenters, but they did a very very excellent job on it. The trim is all painted with CC306 Cable Knit (a Ben Moore colour), although it looks almost white in this photo.
This is an example of the fine trim work. We have a 6 1/2" Hopper baseboard, and used the doorstop moulding as the shoe (covers the floor/wall joint) as it has a similiarity with the base. We have a 7 1/2" base blcok, and a 3 1/2" Murphy Brown door casing. We do have a wider 4 1/2" casing around the large window in the great room.
THis is the kitchen after the microwave was installed. Fortunately Chris was able to extinguish the fire very quickly!
On Saturday, Charles and Chris installed the washer and the microwave. The dryer wasn't installed because an electric one was delivered instead of the gas dryer we had ordered. Charles is checking out the washer to see if it is stable during the spin cycle.
Saturday was very tiring. This is a happy but exhausted Freda having a little snack.
On Saturday March 18th we moved from the little house. That's the building on the left, behind the two green cars.
Dave, standing by his handiwork. The drawers are not installed yet in the center section. There will be 4 drawers here.
Dan the painter, caulked all the base shoe and painted all the base. It looks great!!!
Nick the electrician finishing up the electrical installation. Look at the underside of the column bases - another example of some spectacular finish carpentry!
Chris installing the shelves in the closets.
Appliances arriving. When they tried to bring the fridge in, we discovered that the 36" door from the garage to the house was not 36"! How dumb is that!
The sink and faucet is installed in the powder room. (It's Kohler and it's gorgeous!) After the lights were installed, it was obvious what a terrible job the drywallers had done in here - obviously too lazy to get a light in the room to see if they did a good job or not. So more drywall repairs, sanding, and of course repainting.
Dave is installing the closets in the master.
The fan in the great room was so heavy, it kept pulling out the screws that were holding it up. The crew ended up put a big beefy 2x8 in the attic, and putting 6" lag bolts into it.
The electricians thought they had put a plug here, but I guess not. More drywall repair and repainting.
Sigh.
This is the plumber and his apprentice doing the vent test (we failed the first one).
This was the source of the problem and the reason why we failed the vent test last week. When the plumbers moved the vent before, the very very rough cut (between the two elbows) let air (and sewer gases!) out.
Tawny, surveying the lake on a calm morning, looking for geese or ducks to chase.
Tawny returning for a goose chase.
Tawny, returning from a pre-dawn goose chase. (5:26am, April 17th)
Fish in the lake
Ice is almost all gone from the lake.
Tawny doesn't realize that logs hold little nutrition for dogs!
Drive-up Wed April 12th - the piles of dirt and rock are starting to disappear.
Stone work almost complete.
Stone above the office window.
Garage. The van is for the glass people who came and installed in the evening for us! A nice surprise - someone willing to accomodate us instead of vice versa.
The hole corers, coring holes for the dryer vents, cold storage vents, and a central vac line in the garage.
Chris putting on some last pieces of trim.
Dave installing the powder room doorknob.
Newel posts arrived and are being varathaned.
Freda with her new closet.
Dryer installed, after conversion to propane and changing the exhaust to go out through the bottom.
Network installed, so we now have phone service.
As you can see, we have bullnose corners on the drywall, and I wanted the trim angled in the same way. It was a bit picky for the carpenters, but they did a very very excellent job on it. The trim is all painted with CC306 Cable Knit (a Ben Moore colour), although it looks almost white in this photo.
This is an example of the fine trim work. We have a 6 1/2" Hopper baseboard, and used the doorstop moulding as the shoe (covers the floor/wall joint) as it has a similiarity with the base. We have a 7 1/2" base blcok, and a 3 1/2" Murphy Brown door casing. We do have a wider 4 1/2" casing around the large window in the great room.
THis is the kitchen after the microwave was installed. Fortunately Chris was able to extinguish the fire very quickly!
On Saturday, Charles and Chris installed the washer and the microwave. The dryer wasn't installed because an electric one was delivered instead of the gas dryer we had ordered. Charles is checking out the washer to see if it is stable during the spin cycle.
Saturday was very tiring. This is a happy but exhausted Freda having a little snack.
On Saturday March 18th we moved from the little house. That's the building on the left, behind the two green cars.
Dave, standing by his handiwork. The drawers are not installed yet in the center section. There will be 4 drawers here.
Dan the painter, caulked all the base shoe and painted all the base. It looks great!!!
Nick the electrician finishing up the electrical installation. Look at the underside of the column bases - another example of some spectacular finish carpentry!
Chris installing the shelves in the closets.
Appliances arriving. When they tried to bring the fridge in, we discovered that the 36" door from the garage to the house was not 36"! How dumb is that!
The sink and faucet is installed in the powder room. (It's Kohler and it's gorgeous!) After the lights were installed, it was obvious what a terrible job the drywallers had done in here - obviously too lazy to get a light in the room to see if they did a good job or not. So more drywall repairs, sanding, and of course repainting.
Dave is installing the closets in the master.
The fan in the great room was so heavy, it kept pulling out the screws that were holding it up. The crew ended up put a big beefy 2x8 in the attic, and putting 6" lag bolts into it.
The electricians thought they had put a plug here, but I guess not. More drywall repair and repainting. Sigh.
This is the plumber and his apprentice doing the vent test (we failed the first one).
This was the source of the problem and the reason why we failed the vent test last week. When the plumbers moved the vent before, the very very rough cut (between the two elbows) let air (and sewer gases!) out.
