Big Update!!

WELCOME BACK!!! Sorry to everyone who has been checking back and not seeing an update! I've been enjoying the house first hand all week and it is beautiful!! I have a ton to say but ill add my thoughts at the bottom cause this post is from the builder himself! So on to him!!!

463 total days from demolition to move in. 160 of that away from the job, and we are not “finished yet”. Many small and aesthetic items are yet to be completed, and we are set up with only some of the furniture left from the old cottage.  Without question the longest I have ever been on one project my whole career. Quite possibly the hardest project I have ever worked on. Building up here was, “like building on the moon”. A great lack of available help for labor and carpenter types, minimal inventories , long lead times for materials, no sense of urgency on the subs part and water issues added to the length of the job. Were it not for Mary and Alex, who did not sign up for such a long and difficult process, and three amazing friends that came from Denver last summer as well as my brother, we could very well still be in construction mode. Mary continues to help put the pieces together to accomplish a finished cabin. Thanks also to our extended family up here for all the room and board provided during this period, all who came to view the process and progress from time to time and for all the encouraging words and observations. Thanks to all of you out there on the blog for following along. Thanks to Alex for his tech skills and artistry in keeping the blog current.

Mary and I will now try and settle into some normal day to day activities that our new location provides us, with some work mixed in. With any luck, we can now do what Mary requested all summer,” all I want to do is go fishing”.

Come for a visit. All the best----- J,M,& A

PICTURES BELOW! 

 Above: Dining Room

Below: Living Room 

Living Room

Master Bedroom

Kitchen

Kitchen To ---> Garage Door--->Laundry Room--->Front Bathroom

Our GIANT water system... Water comes in from well --->Into Sand filter (Coarse)-->Second Filter (Fine)---> Third Filter(Water Softener---> then a chemical is added to lower pH---> out to the house....

Stairs To Basement

Back Hallway To... Side Porch (White Door)-->Back Bathroom (Right Door)--->Towel Storage

Back Bathroom

2nd Bedroom

Master Bedroom and Private Master Deck

Master Bathroom

Coolest Shower EVER! Master Shower 

Kitchen

Looking Up To Loft

 Dining Room

Living Room

So.... We had a crazy storm Monday night....

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We couldn't get out...

This tends to happen out in the woods. We had a Giant Oak tree fall on the road.

Which took out a Cedar tree

  

Hawkeye loved jumping over it though! 

And standing on it!!

Anyway! Thank you again for following along! We still have some blog updates coming but not as often, something about "we need to fish more" So as for now...

Gone Fishing.....

See you soon!!!