Back to the Mountains

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Our next visit to the mountain house in September 2011 was met with much more progress--it's amazing what professionals with a crew can do, compared to our snail's pace work around our home in Hickory.



We arrived to windows (although still no front door, which seemed more and more alarming as work on the house progressed...I was very surprised at how long it was until the front door was installed)

And windows PLUS all the sliding doors across the back of the house, except for the top two windows of the A-frame---those came a little later...

There are sliding glass doors across the back of the house in the master bedroom, living room, and eating area. They have screens on the outside so you can enjoy having the doors open without buggies getting inside, although in the mountains that is rarely a problem. (We like to sleep with the doors open in the summer!)

And on the inside of the house we were greeted with drywalled walls! The laundry and half bath (picture above) were actually starting to look like rooms.

And the kitchen was finally designated as such with a dividing wall between it and the laundry and half bath (they share that wall there).

  

The electrician had come out and started to install wiring. How in the world you wire log walls, I have no idea but somehow he did it.

The contractor's crew had chinked in between all the logs. Chinking = filling the spaces between each log and it works similar to caulk, providing a tight barrier. (side note: about 8 months after the house was done, we realized some of the chinking was, in fact, not done when we had some house guests in the form of BATS. Luckily the home was still under warranty with the contractor and he came out and fixed the problem, fo' free)

The fireplace was ready for stone...

and it was still just as scary looking down from the second floor loft without a railing!

Since our last visit the contractor had begun to install tongue and groove ceilings in the great room and loft.

I love this picture--I think it kind of looks like the belly of a boat turned upside down.

And I also think it's neat how all of these points converge in the loft where a chandelier will soon hang.

The upstairs bathroom had walls, too! And a hole for the future potty.

The upstairs bedrooms had walls and windows, and the contractor had built in these sweet little cubbies in each bedroom on either side of the window eaves for extra storage (each eave--two in each upstairs bedroom--is big enough to hold a queen size bed).

And the upstairs bedrooms' balcony doors had also been installed on this visit.

Things were moving right along. It was such a different experience building from the ground up vs. renovating an older home. Things happen so quickly and there is so much that has to be decided (again, quickly) in terms of selecting basically every last detail of what is going into the house.

More to share in another post coming soon!

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