Finishing out the year

Not much has changed on the exterior this past week. It's been a combination of the Christmas holiday and cold. The building inspector was in for the electrical and structural, so interior work was being modified. Plumbing is being worked on in the basement. Insulation has been delivered, so that is going in soon. Debra & I also spent a late afternoon at the lumber mill that will be doing our trim. Lots of choices!

The first shot is the standard "here is the situation today" shot from the edge of the field. The second shot is the view from Cedar Gables:

If you look closely you can see Gen & Aaron's house in the background as well.

Distant shots in the snow

It's December in Wisconsin, so that means 2-4" of new snow. A day for Builder Bruce to stay in his workshop where there is heat!

Here are a few shots from the road:

End of the week view of doors and decking.....

The front 8 ft round-top maple door frame has been installed as well as the trim-work around the door and round-top windows. Bruce is doing a great job customizing these!

Here are the doors in the basement at Cedar Gables, warming up in preparation to be urethaned:

And the standard shot from the path between the two houses:

OK, in the snow!

So Sunday & Monday gave us somewhere around 14" of snow,

End of the week....siding and another (small) roof

Here's some pictures from the end of the week of 12/8:

Better explain this next one -- this is a "siding oven" to create the curves and round-tops for the windows and doors. The strim needs to be "baked" at 300 degrees for 30 minutes and then the curves formed. So, a plugger oven contraption!

Decks and siding!!!!!

The gazebo decking is shaping up:

Back porch decking is going on. Go, Dean, go!

The siding is going on...can start to get a sense for the color of the house...

And the exciting part....the balcony door was put in. We can finally get a sense for this space...

Getting hard to be creative with titles......but updated for the end of the week

but here is a mid-week report (actually an end of the week revision). Last week was a shorter workweek for the builders, with Thanksgiving and cold and all. The propane guys came to bury the line from the house to the tank, but the ground was too frozen already. So, a little creativity on the location marking....

Yesterday the siding was delivered, so we needed to take a peek at it:

And today was spent building the front porch deck:

And one last end of the week picture.....stairs going up the front. Didn't get the picture of the kitchen deck going on.

Midweek report - fireplace and whirlpool

 The exterior isn't changing a lot any more, just small, incremental changes. The decking is slowly taking shape, the building paper is almost all up, and the soffits and fascia boards.

 The interior is coming along. This morning the fireplace installation started:

 The whirlpool in the master bath was brought in. Now we can work some more on design!

Decks going on, doors arrived!

The decks are starting to go on now:

And the excitement is increasing....the doors arrived from Idaho! The white one is the balcony door, the other is one of the interior doors (probably the one for the piano room). Now we have some work to do....all of them need to be finished!

Mostly interior

This week has been busy with heating and plumbing. Mostly interior work, although some more building paper going on:

Caleb on the stairs

New kitchen/dining room wall

Shingles are all done! Garage doors are on!

Friday morning, home during daylight, time for pictures:

And then here's a nice one of Dean the carpenter!