Update on Kitchen ....but not completely done : )

You might be wondering huh so I thought I was going to be looking at kitchen project.....will back in the spring when I started this blog I was on the other side of our pond and found that the Beaver was helping him self to an apple tree that just takes care of itself and in the last 14 years that we have been here has only had apples once and they made the best pie's and apple sauce around.....

So I thought no he is taking down that tree and so here it is full of apples again .....going over to the tree now to see if they are ready to pick for pie's !

So everything got all washed and dried and they started the staining. We use a product made by Sickken's called Log and Siding it is oil based and has been on our home now for around 8 years we have maintained it once in those years and will need to again next spring. This is the second product we used and found out fast what not to use ...but better than that what will be good for us to use....

OK so we made a trip with friends to the beach for a weekend and then went to dinner in Toledo at Chef's Place if you are at the Oregon beach around Newport it is a must place to eat at ....Toledo is out 7 miles east of Newport on Hwy 38 go into town and you'll find it on the right hand side of the road tell Patrick ( the Chef and owner) we sent you. He is also a customer of ours this is his home below.....anyway his daughter did a faux treatment on the beadboard in the restrooms so we ask how and got the ideas.....

So Cliff jumped in and did 2 coats of yellow with 1 coat of red on top and sanded away !

At this point we have only done the Hutch and what I call the Dish Pantry...but we do plan to do the back of the bar and the top part of the hood .....

So with those 2 things done now I have been working on getting my stuff put away.....and a bit of decorating....

The hutch filled up.....

open the doors and see what's inside : )

The Dish Pantry and my open pantry.....need to order a door .....

Open it up and I love how it came out even my hubby likes it .....now all we need is the handles and knobs...they are here but hunting season got in the way.

I'm taking a break form this and going back to what I started this blog about and that was Log Homes.....next post is about a couple taking the delivery and the early stages of the build....check back soon !

I'm using the kitchen all the time : )

So we feel very blessed as we have been working on this project and just one of the things that has happened is that when we put our tile flooring in over 12 years ago we got some great tile that was a really good deal it was a tile 12 x 12's around $1.35 a sq ft...a number of years went by we added onto the house with a formal entry way and found that the same tile was still out there it had changed a bit to a 13 x 13 so we got it and put it down nobody knew it was different.....so when we started this we thought no way they would still make it but behold it is still out there : ) So you see Cliff is at the very end of laying tile down .

Here he is on his knees putting in the last of the grout

While he was doing that Tom the great friend ! was installing the T&G in the pantry.

Look close at this photo ....yes that is my bar sink and pot filler facet coming out of the log : ) When Cliff told me he wanted to do this I thought will OK but now I see it I once again know I have been blessed with a VERY creative hubby !

The picture below is looking at the log / pot filler / and behind that is the rack holding my dishes....yes I still need to paint the "Dish Pantry" and Hutch. So that was my project today was once again doing some more samples of bead board and Red & Yellow paints....hopefully we can get the process we want to do figured out soon....and oh yeah look at the stained butcher block counter top !

Over the weekend I got the pantry filled up door is on order....

I have been using my new kitchen sinks, dish washers, and stove love them all : )

So Cliff took this weekend to wash the outside in preparation to staining......

YOU can't see it above but he was power washing the logs ....below he turned around to see if he could wash me : )

So today he started the staining....and that should wrap up the outside.

Again any of these pictures you want to see bigger just click on them....see you next time !

..............Moving on again .........

Wow I can't believe it has been almost a month from my last post I bet some of you who having been watching are wondering.....

We where working ...had a couple of deliveries ( maybe I should explain this....we had two different customers who got their log home packages delivered ) and so we had to take care of business also.... but in between some things got taken care of.

Here is the stove and it's hood that isn't finished the OSB ( above the hood around the vent pipe ) will be covered up with bead board like the cupboards I'm going to paint.

The guys are installing my new Dish Drawers...yes drawers and instead of having one on top of the other I have one on each side of the sink.....love them I just got to use them yesterday for the first time ...they are a bit different in the way you load them but OH so quite and easy to load and unload. By the way see my hubbies expensive water bottle : )

Below they are gluing together the new butcher block counter tops and you can see the 2 dish draws.

Love this the guys are so good they talked about it and they are cutting in groves on each side of the sink so the water can just run back into the sink....LOVE IT ! Wait tell you see the finished look on my next post .....

This is the Island cabinets installed but needing a counter top and the draws put back in.....I have the soft close draws something new and something to get used to.

Cliff ( on left ) & Tom ( right side) in the garage cutting the angles for the Island counter top.....and good thing we are headed back to Portland next week cause IKEA here we come for one more butcher block to finish the project....and no they didn't miss cut just didn't figure what was needed the first shopping trip....I get to look around IKEA again. Most of what they have isn't my style but they do have some cool things and some thing are a great buy.....like the butcher block.

OK so back to the picture taking and I'll be back sooner than a month I promise!

~~~~~~ All the Bits are here ~~~~~~

So we have all the bits ( as my English friends would say) meaning that we now have all the parts to finish off our side of this project. As I write this my husband is on his way home from a work day in the Portland area and while there he made a trip to my new favorite place to shop ( not his ) IKEA.....he stopped in today to pick up the butcher block to put on the cabinets for our counter tops. We had stained green ones before I don't think we will do that again....but who knows.

OK on to the pictures about a month ago we had out trusty neighbors and friends come over to help with getting the hood in place.....but Cliff & I didn't think about where the new layout of the cabinets was going to be and so they got it up........but............this week Cliff moved it 27" towards the Living room to where it is suppose to be....oops.

The good thing was he had not cut the hole in the roof for the fan : )

But before they could do that they had to take out the old bar and take down our pot rack.

Cliff was up in the air again this time to stain the new T&G and logs so that the really white pine looks a bit more aged to go with what has been for 14 years.

Taking out some more tile and you can see old sink plumbing....Remember if you click the pictures they get bigger.........

Plumber is here today getting the new sink plumbed for us.....

Now Cliff and Tom can start to set the cabinets they are the lower ones....actually I really don't have upper ones. I used to think that was crazy not having them but more and more of my clients are not using them. So in the corner of the kitchen to then left side of picture the black space will be a walk in pantry and the you see a tall pantry looking cabinet that is my "dish pantry". I think I will love it........ there are 2 shelves at inside top then 2 roll out drawers behind the upper cupboards. then the black hole is where my drawer for silverware is going and then in the bottom cupboard is 2 more roll out drawers.....this all get a paint treatment you will see more down below.

Once again just when Cliff thought he had taken out all the old tile more needs to come out ! And even though this was one of his first time putting it down 13 years ago he did a very good job of making sure it would never come up : ) the best part is they are still making our tile so we also got that "bit" and it is waiting to get put into place!

The hood got move ( that is why the scaffolding is back again)....and Jeep of Blue Flame and our customer stopped by to hook up the new Wolf stove. Jeep & Leah added onto an A Frame this last year below are a couple of pictures of it......

So below is what it looks like today looking across kitchen to bay window

As you walk into the kitchen the 2 black holes are the drawer dishwashers they will sit 1 on each side of the kitchen sink....all in the garage ready to come in : )

Here is my dish pantry again : ) and I need help !

So here is the deal we want it to look like an old cupboard so I have done some paint samples and they are Red & Yellow...I was really wanting to do Yellow but the Pine cabinets and the yellow are not enough contrast for me so Red it is going to be I think.....

Which do you like......? Also let me tell you this bead board will be covering the new bar backing and around the top of the hood and I have a hutch that will go next to the Frig.

So I really would love to have your comments !!!!!

~~~~The addition has a new family~~~~

This is Pepper she has been very interested in what is going on in our place but she isn't sure enough to spend much time coming over for a visit......

My folks have been sleeping in their new home for the last week now and Cliff is wrapping up the final to do list today. So I thought I would give you a small tour of the addition before we move back to working on our remodel.

These 2 pictures are of the living room as I stand at the edge of kitchen / dining area.

All my cabinets / dishwasher / and stove moved into this part.

Breakfast time ~~~ Chuck is on his own today.

Here is his desk over looking the pond what a great view....yesterday we had an Eagle looking for fish lunch.....

Coming into bath room from the bedroom.....

I know that this is about log homes and I have strayed a bit here by this project at our place but soon that is all going to be over thanks for letting us share : )

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 : )