An update for the new year
Thursday, January 7th, 2010 Posted in design, siding | No Comments »With 2009 coming to a close we needed to decide what 2010 had in store for the SIPs house. With funds tightening (both our funds and funds available from banks), we decided to pull the house off the market and ...
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 ...
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Posted in siding | 2 Comments »[caption id="attachment_436" align="aligncenter" width="375" caption="more barn wood"][/caption] Turns out a lot if he or she could. We realized fairly early on in the wood siding process we weren't going to have enough barn wood to do what we needed to do. ...
time for wood!
Thursday, May 21st, 2009 Posted in siding | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_430" align="aligncenter" width="375" caption="reclaimed barn wood"][/caption] We finally started putting up wood siding this week. The image doesn't really do justice. There's a fair amount of depth and texture that will be great next to the smooth texture of the ...
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 ...
Waterproofing
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in construction, siding | 2 Comments »We started waterproofing our building last week. We are using a rainscreen system. Build Blog had a great post about them some time ago - click here to learn more about rainscreens. For our outer layer, we are using corten steel panels, ...
Barn wood and days gone by….
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in siding | No Comments »Our cartage driver, Mike, went to pick up our barn wood siding (see previous post) today. Turns out, when he was younger he used to move hay into the barn. We know the barn was torn down several years ago...he said ...
recycled siding!
Sunday, August 31st, 2008 Posted in construction, siding | 1 Comment »A quick search on Craig's list brought up a few choices for our barn wood siding. A 20 minute car ride, a few hundred bucks cash and we now have plenty of siding to go around. Our barn wood came ...
