At Long Last an Update on Construction

We have been working 7 days a week for several weeks now, and have literally had no extra time to post any updates until now. We are taking Sat. and Sun. off  this weekend, so I can post up progress. First of all, the house is all dried-in will all the doors installed except  the front door which is now long overdue. The two base stucco coats are completed on the outside, with the exception of two places where we needed to put doors. The electrical, and low-voltage is installed and completed. Plumbing is done and everything has passed inspection. We installed the sheetrock everywhere except the master bedroom and closet, because the tile setter is working in there. The stove chimney is installed and when it recently rained…..no leaks anywhere! So here are the updated pictures.

Looks more like a house now.....

They did a real good job around the windows and doors…

All the edges are rounded to run water away from the window

Same for the doors.

All exterior doors are steel, the hole to the left is a cat door....

We were able to use 3 doors that were seconds on the outside, two silver powder-coated  and they happened to have a blue powder-coated one that was an odd size. Luckily for us it fit the back entrance, so we had to have it!

Fortunately we share the same eclectic taste.

So with three silver doors and one blue door….when it came time for a steel utility room door, naturally we needed to powder-coat it as well. Ariane wanted a red door, and boy did we get a red door. We had it powder-coated candy apple red! It was a bear to install but it came out pretty nice!

Sorry the plank is in the way, but I was too lazy to move it for the picture.

With the house closed in, we started sheet rocking it to get it ready for plastering. I am not a big fan of sheet rocking it is dirty, dusty and a ton of overhead work…. but we did get it mostly done and it really makes the house look good inside.

Green boarding the guest bath....

Entry with art piece

still waiting for that front door….. to the left of this photo.

Living room

Kitchen

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, we installed the solar hot water collectors and ran all the feeds down to the utility room, installed a central vac system, acid stained the concrete floors and  insulated all the interior walls for sound before we sheet rocked.

My friend Kelly Cannon is a master tile setter and he is doing the bathrooms!  They are coming out beautiful!

master bathroom

The large tiles are really difficult to install correctly, not a job I would want to tackle.

Lastly, we added a patio area right off the decks, when we discovered the deck area was not large enough. Andy DeVillers and his crew did a fantastic job as always.

The pavers will allow water to drain through and water the trees.

We are going to use steel for the deck framing and aluminum planking.  Clay Newman, of Alaska Welding, is fabricating the steel posts and beams to support the decks. He fabricated the front entry steel. They will be powder-coated the same at the front entry. His work is outstanding and his vast experience really shows with the practical suggestions he makes as well as the meticulous preparation he does before fabricating.

So that is it for now.