Last stages on the addition

This is so cool to watch how they do things with trucks and lifts....here they are doing what they call "loading the house" with sheet rock.

It is all in now and you can see the home is all insulated. They have used some new cotton fibers it was very soft and fluffy.

So Cliff , Kevin and Tom started putting up bead board on the walls....I have always wanted this on my walls......

It just reminds me of a cool old cabin in the woods....

Next day the sheet rockers came in and started hanging it on the ceiling first.....

At the end of the day they where done and we made a deal to clean up the piles : )

This is in the bedroom at the top or what I call the gable peak they turned the boards over and they are flat ( the bead board is only on one side of this 1 x 8) and they laid it Horizontal.

The next day the tapers came in and taped all the joints....and then plastered the sheet rock.

So once that was done Cliff got out his sprayer and primed all the sheet rock after Tom had put plastic over all the wood walls.

On the outside Dylan & Noah built a ramp at the Entry....but ran out of Evergrain ( brand name )it is a composite decking we love it......... never will do real wood on decks again...sorry if you are a purest we just don't like the care that wood takes....

New day new color.... Sage in the great room. You can also see the vinyl got laid down the blue tape is to keep us from walking on the seams for an hour.

Cabin Red is the color in the bedroom this is the first coat of 2 which is normal with red paint .

This is the finished red and looking into the Blue bath.....Red for my dad and blue for my mom : )

Next day our friend Shore came over to help so he is putting clear interior varithane on the wood for us and being watched by the carpet layers who are also here working.

Carpet in bedroom , plumbing and wiring in the bathroom.

This is another grand puppy of ours this is Bones who is testing the carpet for us....

We needed to do deck railing off the back side of the addition and so we are using hog wire fencing and to hold it in place top and bottom again using the Evergrain . We really like using these products low maintenance and the wire is something that doesn't really block the view.

Tom and our other son Justin are cutting while the above picture shows Cliff marking a board to make the log cuts.

Here you can see how nice it looks from the inside....don't you love the big windows......

Once again the big boy toys are put to use. A couple of years ago we bought this small dump trailer and it is so nice to have around....here they are dumping some gravel to even out the ground from the drive to the ramp...later we will do black top or pavers....

The only thing missing is the hand rail........stay tuned the move has happened and so we are almost ready for the finished pictures of the parents new home....and we are back into our kitchen with our new cabinets coming this next week : )

I'm back and so is the sun : )

So I know it has a couple of weeks but here I am again and the sun is back and I think we may even have some heat again....I'm whining because yesterday I thought it was going to snow it was so cold and windy and I do believe it is the middle of June : )

OK so here is what has been happening the last couple of weeks.....the guys finished roofing the wing and got it ready to log side once the windows got here.

You can see we put some hand peeled logs on the corners for the log siding to run into.

This is the day before windows came so they started the log siding. That is the front door for my parents wing.

Next day windows came and you see here they where putting in the last one in the wing.

Noah is outside waiting to hear if it is OK to nail it in....

Inside Cliff and Dylan are making sure it is in straight.

Then back outside to finish log siding the gable end and most of both sides almost had enough to finish now we will get some on our next delivery.

At the end of the day Noah on the left helped one of our home owners Kevin who came by to help us with getting our phones and cables wired in .

This is Kevin & Michele's home they built themselves a couple of years ago. And Kevin is big time into Christmas can you tell. This is a Lake Vista on a basement that house's the 2 car garage and family room / exercise room.

Inside is Kevin & Michele's tree. Just for your info we do an annual Group ( anybody who wants to go group) gathering for Christmas trees and Kevin's says he gets the biggest tree !

Then Sat we held an Open House in another couples home outside of Battle Ground WA.

Dave & Tamara are nice enough to open their home once a year. Again they also wanted to build their own home.

This is looking from the loft of their version of a Lakeview I.

So after the Open house we drove about 30 miles to another town to look at a stove that I found on Craig's list. You see my hubby is the best cook ever and he has always wanted a big boy stove and so I have been looking for the last 2 months online trying to find a good deal on a Wolf range and last week found one and so we took a trailer with us in case it was in fact a good deal and you can see below it was.....

So Sunday after Church some of our friends & customers came by to help get the stove into the house....you see it was around 700 lbs.

Once in it had wheels to help move it around but we where really happy to have the help of Thane ( in black T) and Justin our other son ( in baseball cap ).
Here is Julie ( with Haley the granddaughter ) with Thane her son ( Black T ) and Tom next to him and Cliff with his back to us and that is Julie's husband Bill at the end.

Below is a picture of Bill & Julie's latest project inside the Library Bill built this whole wall unit in their Creek III you can see other pictures on our site in the Profile.

Then this is a picture inside Tom & Carla's Woodside II....So whose tree is bigger Tom & Carla's or Kevin & Michele's ?????

OK so back to our project now with before and after pictures of the family room window.

We are also changing the door that goes from our eating area out to our porch so below you see old door on the grass and new slider on the deck.

We had to cut open the size of this and in doing that I got a chance to show you how the logs connect one to another. Our home is of the old method of 12" spikes now we use 12" logs that are at least 3/4" thick. So they are close to same size....

Notice the plastic is up to try and keep saw dust at bay.....

This is an interesting site ...see the chainsaw blade just left of the tile and it is saw dust raining in the kitchen as Dylan is cutting out for the new Bay window.

Sometime people ask if the logs are connected good enough will I can say for sure after this cut out and the wall we took out before that I think they are VERY connected and if there was something going on I want to be in our home.

Got one other one at the top to come out.....

And this one at the bottom take care of that hole....

Look close and you can see Dylan is cutting off the tongues of the logs for the window to sit down smooth on top of the log.

This is showing you a 2 x 6 window buck that is slotted for nails this way if the logs move the window doesn't.

This is the before look of the one kitchen window and upper cabinets .....

After....but not done : ) Remember if you click on picture it will get bigger.....come back!