Interior boarding is done!

Today is another landmark day in the new house. The drywall boarders have finished their work. The house walls are now clearly defined. I moved one switch and one air conditioning vent last night as their somewhat askew locations had gone unnoticed until the drywall was in place. Everything is now where it will permanently live.

With the addition of the drywall the house interior spaces suddenly became grand and spacious. Everything now flows together as we had long imagined. Here's a visual tour of some of the areas...

View from kitchen towards dining room

View from kitchen up towards bridge

View from under bridge into living room

View down into living room from bridge

Master bedroom

This morning a new crew arrived to tape and fill the drywall. It will take about a week or so to finish things off. Then we will be ready to begin the paint! I'll be busy in the shop designing and crafting the custom moldings and trim. The magic is almost ready to begin on the inside of the house.

-grampa dan

First pieces of the fancy

For the last few days I've been working with Jeff Hartman on the interface and software for the fourth axis on our CNC MultiCam router. We use the software to create the files we use to operate the router. Jeff and his brother show true genious, writing amazing mathematical equations that generate all kinds of things. 

One of the manouvers the software creates is called Rapid Texture. Instead of taking many hours to a panel with a small bit, the software creates random vector lines across the panel which the router follows with a large diameter router bit. The file is cut in a fraction of the time - as much as 1/20th of the other methods of routing.

We'll be using Rapid Texture to route the wainscot panels. Jeff Hartman kindly offered to design them for us. Janis described the look we were going for as waving grass - as if a gentle breeze was blowing through a field. Once the file was done (which Jeff whipped up in a hurry) I popped a sheet of Precision Board High Density Urethane on the router and set it in motion. A short time later our first sheet of textured HDU was done. It was enough for eight panels of wainscot. My rough calculations tell me that we'll need at least ten sheets of rapid texture panelling done on the router. That will make one large pile of sawdust when we are done!

I'll continue routing more sheets of High Density Urethane, enough for all the wainscot panels through the house. As soon as the drywall is done I'll begin installing it. Won't be long now...

-grampa dan

Before the fancy

In many ways our house looks pretty ordinary in many places as the drywall goes on. The wall expanses are very plain for the most part. The fancy will come as we add wainscoting, tile and trims to most areas of the house. That is what will take the house over the top but still keep it practical and easy to maintain and live in.

Today the boarders started on on four rooms, making good progress. They start with the ceiling and then work theeir way down the wlls. First up was the ensuite bathroom. In a short while the room looked expansive and room. the plain board seemed to make the room grow.

The master bedroom got the ceiling but then the hanging crew moved on to another room in order to burn through the material stacked along one wall. The walk in closet was the next room to get boarded. It looks great with lots of room in the closet for hanging all our clothes. The laundry room was next on the list.

Upstairs the ladies finished painting the living room ceiling. It is looking fabulous!

Phoebe's 'secret' room also is looking very blue - Phobe's favorite color.

As the plain work is getting done we are busy in the shop doing samples of the fancy. Stay tuned...

-grampa dan