May 20: To celebrate my Aunt and Uncle's 40th wedding anniversary (YEAH), we had a wonderful dinner at the Sea Glass Restaurant, and then had a look at some new details in the house. The build has been fairly quiet this week; the mason finished up the interior rock wall on Wednesday, trim has been applied to most of the end grain fir windows (upper and lower floors), and the siding has continued to crawl up the East wall and round to the North wall above the garage. The street side of the house has been cleared up of garbage and stone (which has been distributed around the ocean side of the house for application on the patio wall) in preparation for gas hook up early next week. Oh - the garage doors should go in next week as well - cool!
Fireplace and mantel without the scaffolding. The porcelain product Neolith, in a grey/black colour will be applied to the front of the fireplace and below the fireplace opening under the hearth. We were hoping for a completely floating hearth, but we needed to support our very heavy fireplace.... I can live with that.
The floating hearth is solid and a great design feature. It will be covered in the Neolith product as well. The venting outlet below is for A/C.
The air return vent for the great room is at the top of the fireplace on the South side. Generally, it will not be seen........ The third piece of teak facade will be applied on the top next week.
South wall of the kitchen with the final column complete. I am very happy with the blend of white and teak.... It is fresh and warm. Appliances will arrive early June....
Under cabinet lights (LED) are in.
Vanity under cabinet lights are also installed - here in the den bathroom
.... and on the floating vanity in the powder room next to the den.
Floating vanity in the guest suite - all the under vanity lights are turned on with a motion sensor.
Cabinet and sink in the powder room under the back stairs; very efficient for this small space.
Finishing up in the laundry room.
The drying racks, sitting here on the counter, will be mounted on the opposite wall.
Window in the master bedroom with trim completed.
Detail of the end grain fir trim - it will be stained the same colour of the existing window trim.
Fir trim on the windows above the entrance.
Detail of the fir trim on the studio windows.
Siding on the East Wall.
Almost to the soffits...
Jeremy installing siding on the street side of the house; another mitered corner.
I believe the 'exoskeleton' will be on the house for another month or so...