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A few updated siding photos

Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in construction, design, siding | No Comments »

Here's a few more photos of the exterior.  We started installing flooring and tile this week so hard to get in the house to take photos, but I'll post soon. [gallery]

siding update

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in construction, siding | 14 Comments »

[caption id="attachment_441" align="aligncenter" width="516" caption="barn wood siding"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_445" align="aligncenter" width="614" caption="barn wood and corten"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_447" align="aligncenter" width="614" caption="more barn wood and corten"][/caption] Just a quick update on the project.  the siding is coming along nicely.  Hank is doing a fantastic job ...

Lets get our paint on!

Friday, May 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized, construction | No Comments »

Firstly - I apologize for the low rez camera phone photos...didn't have my camera handy.  Running parallel with our SIPs house, we've been working on another house (the 14 house) on the other side of town built entirely out of ...

Let there be wood.

Friday, May 1st, 2009 Posted in construction | 6 Comments »

For the entry to the house, we finally decided on a plywood panel.  There were several considerations for this.  Firstly, while the corten is cool looking, it's not a 'warm' material to have next to an entry.  We typically like ...

pinned in a corner

Thursday, March 12th, 2009 Posted in construction, siding, windows | 6 Comments »

actually not!  finally our site glazed corner window is installed.  we have a lot more pieces of siding installed as well.  things are really starting to take shape. [gallery]

we have siding!

Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in construction, siding | 19 Comments »

While the trades are buttoning up their rough-in items on the interior, we've moved outside the house and started installing some siding.  The lower portion of the house is clad in Cor-ten sheets.  The upper portion of the siding is ...

comfy floors!!

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in construction | 2 Comments »

Kick your shoes off and have a ball.  Now that we have our floor completely installed, we've noticed how nice and comfortable our floors are.  If you haven't been following, we decided to pour our slab on grade and keep ...

WINDOWS!

Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Posted in construction, windows | 5 Comments »

We just about have all the Marvin windows installed.  This is an exciting step for us because the openings have been covered in plywood for months.  It's great to see the amount of natural light we'll be getting in key ...

windows and roofing

Monday, January 12th, 2009 Posted in construction | No Comments »

quick update post.  roof is installed and we've started installing the windows.  we have a photo (below) of one of the 10' tall, 5' wide windows between the kitchen and the covered patio...cool.   [gallery]

Merry Christmas!

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in construction, insulation | No Comments »

If you don't already know, we've been under a bit of a snow storm the past week.  Here are a couple shots of the house covered with the black Vaproshield wrap.  The SIPs panels in the foreground covered in clear ...