One of several bucks who are with about 6 does on my land. (NO DAVID and EDWIN, you cannot shoot my livestock!!!!) I counted between 6 and 8 points on him.
Trim guy, Kerwin Ray is having to route the top of the 1x6 inch baseboard and then also cut these 22.5 degree little pieces to go around the rounded corners. I am sure it is a pain but I like the look a lot. All will be grouted, primed and two coats of semi gloss white paint put on by the painter. I am also considering adding a 1/4 round to finish it out but will wait until the floor has had the final polish.
This was one of the many issues that came up with the trimout. The doorways were framed 3 inches too high so to get nailers and to make the doors fit, Kerwin had to add two 2x4's to the top.
One of the differences with using polished concrete is standard doors sit off the floor about 2 inches. Normally the floor would be carpet, tile or wood which would fill in the distance.
First finished door trim with header...also 1x6 routed at the top to match the baseboard and also a little strip of lattice to give a shadow trim. Sides are plain 1x4.
Cabinets arrive. Would you believe one guy unloaded all these boxes. He used a dolly only for the tall cabinets. Everything arrived and undamaged...Yea!
Kerwin and Donnie set up several stations on the porches for routing. ripping and cutting the trim. Worked well and kept the sawdust out of the house.
Other bedroom that the doors went in cleanly. I used 7 sets of these double doors in Mechanical Room, Bedrooms and Pantry. I just hated the idea of using sliding doors or bi-fold doors since they usually stop opening smoothly after a short time. The doors will have cabinet handles and stay closed with ball bearing catches at the top.
One of two sets of double french doors held closed with the same ball bearing latches at the top. These open into the office and the other set are between the Master Bedroom and Master Bath.
Louvered double doors for the closet in the Pantry where the PEX manifold system and water heater are. Air circulation was required for the Heat Pump which will generated cool dehumidified air from generating hot water. The Pantry does not have a door so the cool air can circulate to the rest of the house.
Master Bedroom looking into the Master Bath.
This corner of the Master shower at the bottom of the wall is an issue. The trim guy says wood on this corner will very soon rot out from water running under the baseboard from the shower so he recommended the tile guy put tile down to match the height of the baseboard. The tile guy has to come back anyway to install the grab bars so will see what he suggests. The room next to the shower is the Master Closet which also does not have a door...didn't see why it was needed.
Kerwin struggled for many hours getting the pocket doors to operate correctly. After both doors were in and working, I told him I had changed my mind about the bedroom doors and wanted them changed to pocket doors. The look on his face was priceless then he realized I was joking.
Sample of his work of taking care of the details. This is the little hallway between the bedrooms and second bath and the trim had to be modified to fit.
Showing the lattice trim to give a shadow line. Notice the consistent revel on all of it. Excellent job. Notice also our pets we keep around. The grand-daddy long legs seem very happy in the corners of the house.
Kerwin modified the window trim to butt cleanly up against the pencil edge of the tile in the Master Bathroom.
This is just some of the trim being used on baseboards, doors and windows.
We began unpacking cabinets and attempting to place them near where they would eventually be installed.
The oven cabinet is placed on the floor without the base since Kerwin discovered the LP pipe was too low to go into the bottom of the cabinet. I called the plumber to fix this issue as well as the kitchen sink cabinet was going to be impossible to install without demolishing the cabinet.
Easy and quick for the plumber to move the LP pipe up the wall and to cut off the drain and supply lines so the sink base could be installed.
Oven cabinet in place.
Cabinets in Master Bath waiting to be installed.
Pocket door between the Master Bedroom and the Office.
Sink cabinet in second bath. The second pocket door between the sink and toilet/tub area of second bath is also now trimmed out.
Kerwin is doing what he did a lot of trying to figure out the installation of the cabinet layout-----wasn't easy but Home Depot could have made it much easier than it was if there had been clearer schematics.
Pantry cabinets finished.
Master Bathroom sink cabinets finished.
Bottom cabinets of central pod finished.
Second Bath cabinets finished.
Work on bottom cabinets of kitchen. Notice Kerwin's work bench.
At the same time, the attic disappearing stairs were being installed.
Jimmy did most of the work on installing the aluminum stairs.
Complete and work very nicely. Easy and light to bring down.
Skuttle Hole used to access the attic over the main part of the house in case we need to get to PEX lines, electrical or plumbing.
The other stairs are in the garage and access lots of storage.
The other stairs are in the garage and access lots of storage.
Work began on putting up the upper cabinets in the kitchen.
This one cabinet that looks like it doesn't have a door is going to be a glass-front cabinet- one on each side of the window.
The shelf unit is for a microwave on the Central Pod.
Not finished yet but getting real close! Got a lot completed this week!
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