Another week gone by and more milestones on the drywall. The crew is now putting up the “rock” in the last room now, the garage. They’ve also made a lot of progress with the joint compound (mud) and taping of the 2nd floor. Here is the progression. First the drywall goes on. Then the outsideRead more about Drywall is going fast[…]
It’s been quite a process settling on a cabinet maker. We received initial bids from three different companies and then went through an extensive back and forth negotiation to try and get the price down to what we could afford, and to figure out who we thought would give us the best end result. WeRead more about Cabinets and built-ins[…]
We are adding a small pool house in the back yard. Here it is from the elevations on the plans. It’s not really a house, but more of a covered patio. The only part of it that is fully enclosed is the toilet room. Among the many silly things that the building codes and zoningRead more about The pool house[…]
At the back of our house are the kitchen and family room. We decided to make the ceilings in these two rooms (really one big room) somewhat special by finishing them with bead board, like we did the exterior patios and porches. The family room will get the added treatment of box beams below theRead more about Bead board ceilings for the kitchen and family room[…]
We’ve got two permits being reviewed by the city at this time. The first is our revised landscaping permit. When we originally did the landscaping, we didn’t have the benefit of (a) spending a lot of time considering what we wanted the property to be like (we just needed something reasonably close to what weRead more about Waiting for permits[…]
Water and gas lines trenched and laid last week. From the street: Into the yard: The lines direct both to the house and to the back yard behind the pool house. The yellow line on the left is the one running to the pool house and is bigger (4 inch line) than the one runningRead more about Water and gas[…]
Drywall is going in rapidly. They are now almost done putting up the drywall on the first floor. Here is our living room. They have installed all the corner bead on the second floor and have started taping and mudding the joints. We have a tentative date of November 20th for the first cabinets toRead more about Drywall update[…]
Because our design includes a “skirt” or flare from the second story to the first, it is impractical to run downspouts down the side of the house on some places as they will have to divert around the flare; it just looks like an afterthought when downspouts do that. For example, here is one ofRead more about The details – leader heads and cow’s tongues[…]
I must admit I do have a little leg up on the average person when it comes to counter tops, as I briefly ran a stone fabrication business about a decade ago. Knowing nothing about stone fabrication at the time, I took it over and tried to stabilize it until we eventually sold the business. Read more about Stone choices[…]
Columns are a signature craftsman style element, and there are lots of different types that are used in craftsman homes. If you search Google images for “craftsman columns exterior” you’ll see what I mean. Most of the time, they are made out of wood. However, because they are exterior columns, and would likely have miteredRead more about Porch columns[…]