Lots of Insulation!

So Nick went crazy taking pictures of the before and after on the insulation.  Try to guess where each picture is taken!  And then I will tell you hopefully!!!

 This is the 3 windows you look out over the lake as you come in the front door!

These are some of the trusses!

This is the temporary front door.  Keep going and you will see the beautiful front door hung!

Front entry looking into one of the single garages!!!

Over the top of the stair case ceiling!

This is the guest bathroom window and the ceiling is the floor of the garage and entry!

Closet of a guest bedroom, the only bedroom that has a closet!

Wall of one of the bedrooms.  Little moisture gathered on the floor.  We had to take this insulation down and blow foam on these walls @ the request of the inspector.  Just another grand!

A bedroom wall with a window!

The Fireplaces

The main floor fireplace near completion-two floor samples next to it-insulation also next to it!

The mantle is very lovely-burled wood, but it is kind of camouflaged!

A long shot of the fireplace with the stained glass window-different lighting!

The master bedroom corner fireplace, just needs the mantle put on and the cover plate for the gas insert

So it seems as if things have come to a halt but they haven't!  The insulators just finished insulating 

and have had the my plumber there finishing the plumbing that should have been done with

the rough in. Have been getting dry wall bids and moving stuff out of storage. We had

the inspector come through and he wanted us to do more insulation which the insulation guy said,

he has been in the business for 35 years and never seen that request!  Makes you wonder!

Lloyd is going to come and put the cedar wood from the old cabin up in our master bedroom walls.

We had to have the cement guy come and jack hammer out 7" of concrete to find the box for the drain of the bathtub before the plumber could put the p-trap on!  Just lots of little things to think of before the drywall is put on.  Am getting bids for other things and also we are still waiting for the windows to be corrected before we can have the siding put on.  Hopefully they will be put on this week or next week but I just don't hold my breath any more because it has taken months for them to decide to get the replacement windows!!!

Finally the excavation is done in front!

So the front is rolled and filled and ready for the next phase!

Garage doors, stove inserts, masonry, excavation, and bids day!

So it is starting to come together with logs, rock and now garage doors!

Excavation is taking place today along with stove inserts being installed, masonry on fireplace inside, garage doors being installed and other bids!  Busy day!

So one of the panels is off on the nmiddle garage door, but overall it looks great! Just another glitch in the construction process!

The Log Guys came from Idaho!

So this is the log element in the kitchen ceiling

This is the railing going from the entry hall along the first set of stairs.  We had 2 of the 3 burled wood newel posts and so this is the only railing that is more rustic because it is set apart from the rest!

This is looking from the rec room toward the lake.  they wrapped the 2 steel posts with logs, put railing up @ the top of the lower stairs, railing going up the upper stairs and a header into the rec room.

So you are now in the great room looking @ the beautiful log staircase they installed.  You are looking toward the rec room, the opposite way the above picture faces.

This is what the lake place is framed around.  To finally get this stained glass window up is incredible.

I never thought this would actually happen.  What a relief and a beauty.  It was in a church in Ohio with tulips etc.  The guy that owned it before replaced all that with an elk, a wolf and an eagle.  It was meant to be in a cabin!

This is one garage door opening from the front.  

Boy, these did not come in order!  This is the railing described above as you come in the entry.  I love the knarled look of this rare wood!

Here's the long shot of the front toward the road with the log elements added!

And a close up of the front door with the log element!

And finally the angle of the log stair case coming from above over looking the great room.  The fireplace has been framed in and it is nice and chunky!!!

Remember where we started a year ago!

Well actually more than a year ago because all this took place in sept-oct of 2010

Then we actually started digging in April-May 2011

Oh all those wonderful memories that were created @ this place!

Now to create more but new memories in the future @ the new place!

There has been progress!

So these are shots of the stone walls which are being put on the sides and front.   

The electrical and plumbing and vacuum and intercom and soundsystem have been being roughed in the last few weeks so has the security system and the choosing of siding, decking, and little problems!

The cultured stone is being applied to the retaining walls also

This is on the side of the garage where the electrical comes into the house.  This shows a more true 

rendition of the colors.  I hope it will all work together as there was a mishap with the stone giving us more black ones than I had anticipated.