Finally I'm back.........

OK so I have been busy check out the Press Release located on my home page at www.bakerpond.com to see what has keep me away from blogging......

So this is way past it's time in fact these pictures where taken back in March. Eric has had some very good friends and family help with their home project and as you can see doing the Tongue and Groove Pine on walls and ceilings can be way up there....

Here they are tucking the last T&G up next to their log ridge beam.

This was on the other slope......

But look how cool it looks finished with Ana's great pick of fans

Here is a picture of the kitchen and the granite counter tops remember this home is in the process of construction and family so you can't always have everything picked up and clean when you take the photo's

The "D" family thought about doing log rails but after they had a chance to see how much wood they have in the walls and ceiling they thought that a difference product would break things up a bit and I happen to love what they picked in this metal railing system. Besides with small hands around Ana will love the easy care also.....

Can't you just see them sitting in the loft enjoying the inside and outside views....

Moving into May they are at a place to start hauling in some stuff I'm surprised nobody was on the bed napping after all the hard work they have put into this project.

Or better yet in this awesome shower....

Yeah no more worries about falling off the sides .....

Now these just came to me "D" family is in and almost rolled over in the loan from Construction to Mortgage loan.....there are still things do besides unpack on the inside.

This is a close up look of the rails before they paint them again I think they will be very happy with the upkeep. I know some of you are saying but it is a log home where are the log rails....this is the cool thing though it is your home and you get to do the things you want : )

Check out that view they have and soon there will be green grass here to play on.....

You can see a ladder on the roof that is there until they get the home stained and the rock on the chimney.....

Here we are just over a year after they started the dream home .....I plan to have more inside finish photo's in the future....but have enjoyed showing you the process of this home in my blog and hope you enjoy looking at it. Thanks "D" Family !

Progress on the "D" house.....

Wow time has gotten away from me and I'm so behind in post about this house so I'm going to do a couple of photos now and then hopefully I will get to more later this week !

So at the end of Jan here is how things looked Everything had insulation and then just needed to have the T & G Pine put into place.

Here is the finished photo with T&G up and fans in place.

A look from the outside at that glass.

They also did a fair amount of Sheetrock on interior walls....so here is one in the process...

Then the finished painted wall with the windows trimmed out and light in place.

Just a couple of cute kids pictures because you know they where helping : )

Both the kids wanted to help Sheetrock....

And then Painting their rooms was also on the "to do " list !

Come back again......

Work is moving on at the "D"s project

So the red metal roof is on and the guys are back doing the log siding on the dormers along with putting windows. They also

Even the family gets into the act Ana Dad is helping with the fan box.

Here is what the back side of the home looks like....big Shed dormer so there is a ton of room upstairs in loft, master bedroom, bath and closest. And yes they are on top of a daylight basement that is much needed extra space.

This is a close up picture of the finished concrete floor. They did radiant heating using hot water tubes and then poured colored concrete over it and then came back and stamped in a pattern with some more stain so it give the floor depth in the color along with texture and the bonus is warmth also.

This is looking down from the loft into the Living room. You can also see the doors and windows are here and getting put in at this time.

This is taken from the dining room area to the front door and stairs to second floor.

This is to show you that they left the kids bedroom floor flat so they could do carpet over the concrete if they wanted to.

This is in the kitchen area and they blocked out for the Island that has a stove and oven in it.

They have a very busy week ahead and then they are moving onto insulation and sheetrock : )

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

this is fun because everyday I get new pictures to add to this post : )

Dave & the girls out in the snow they got over 30" I think in southwest Washington...

Check out the wood ready for the fireplace and don't forget the dog !

These 2 pictures I have just added....as home owners have been passing around snowy pictures I ask them to send in Christmas ones also so Jay & Paulette live in an an area that doesn't usually gets snow or at least much of it anyway so here is their tree and outside look ......

This is a 2008 of the outside home and archway of friends who go out with us to get their tree.

Even the Archway got lights......

This is 2007 Christmas tree haven't seen this years up and decorated yet ..... OK so Kevin the neighbor has a web site and he took some 2008 pictures of his home and Tom & Carla's so here is this years tree all a glow below.....

Different home ( but is next door to the last home) they helped each other put up the outside lights..... this is Kevin & Michele's home.

Stocking from the mantel.....

Kevin loves this and each year I think he does more...these where taken last year. And because Kevin had some new stuff and new pictures on his web I borrowed some of his .....

Love this idea for the Christmas town.....and below are this years outside lights while it snowed how perfect can that be.....

He even decorated the gate at the archway !

Different home again stockings are hung : )

I believe these guys actually cut the tree on their land how cool is that.

This is the first Christmas in our home and it was taken by someone who knew what they where doing it was for an ad but if you look close in the 3 panel door there is a grey trap covering something we where tiling our floors at this time ......

The next year or so we got the boys to help line the house.....wished we could do that again but again this is a number of years ago and we have added onto the house twice !

This one is from 05 you can see the tree lights in the prow....we go out as a group into the woods and cut down our trees ( the first 2 homes are couples that come along ) and get our trees the Sat after Thanksgiving.

This was also in 05.....this is our driveway and the wreath you see in the back ground is our front porch.

Last year I talked Cliff into building this star for me but this is the porch we just remodeled and it is no longer there so Cliff took the Star and it is now on that archway you see in the above pictures.

I took this one last year also.....

and this one .....

And this also was last year ....this year is much the same just a bit smaller tree : )

Hope you enjoyed the tour ! Stay safe and warm and enjoy the season !!!!