We continue to chip away at the homestead project. On one hand it seems like we are getting close to the finish line, but on the other hand when we think about all the details that go into the last few tasks we realize we still have several weeks to go. Maybe we will cross the finish line in June....
In other news the weather seems to be warming a little bit by bit, which brings some welcomed snow melting. We have pushed snow in the driveway into piles that we can push no further or higher with our current snow removal technology!
Below is a shot in the road in front of our house. At the intersection the snow is piled so high it is very difficult to see any oncoming vehicles, even though it has been melting for a few days.
The snow at the side of the road still makes Romeo the 5500 look small.
We have been working on doors for a few weeks. Working in the guest bedroom, Gari puts the finishing touches on a 32" door.
In the master bedroom we were building up the double closet door frame. We are trying to complete the bedrooms with doors, casings, and baseboards first so we can order the carpet for those rooms. The rest of the flooring in the house in currently complete. More on that in a sec.
Below is the master bathroom with the 12x24 vinyl tile installation completed. We think this larger format vinyl was more difficult with the locking system, but the larger size of the tile made the area faster to cover. We were wanting a Travertine tile color/pattern, but that was unavailable. So our choice was a gray stone (this) or several choices of white marble patterns. I think there was one black pattern as well.
Opposite angle in the master bath. Still no countertops... but the shipping tracker says March 14...
...but we have lights! on temporary power....
The guest bathroom flooring is also completed. Haven't set the toilet yet.
Finished flooring in kitchen and family room areas. Door & Window Casing stacked ready for the next task. We are going to mill our own moldings from 1x4s and 1x6s.
Kitchen below. Range came in and we verified it fits in its spot. It's still up on a floor dolly. That sucker is heavy. The dishwasher is supposed to be delivered Wednesday. Hopefully it will fit in its spot too.
We agonized over what we would do for a backsplash material in the kitchen. We finally settled on just semigloss painted walls with the exception of a quartz slab behind the range. Below Brock shows us samples one of which we selected and ordered.
Steve works on insetting the hinges on the master closet doors.
Since the flooring was completed we moved some furniture out of storage in the Shop to give us more room in the Shop.
Gari sands and tack cloth wipes the last two doors for the master closet. Woo Hoo! Plan is to get these double doors hung this week. Door & window casing is next, followed by baseboards. Keep on grinding!
We use the vacant space in the kitchen to build up the bi-fold guest closet door framing. Plan is to get these hung this week.
Oh yes, we completed the flooring in the pantry too. The cinder block is used as a glue clamp. The center of the room is the hatch access into the crawlspace, so we glued the vinyl tile to the hatch.
First door casing installed. This is the entrance to the master bathroom.
A little zoom in on the detail of our milling. On the inside edges, we used a round off that stops short of the corners and put a chamfer on the ends of the header casing. We made overlap rabbet joints between the side and head casings. More than you ever wanted to know, but it just goes to show you what we are thinking about these days.
We completed the tile setting for under the gas log burner. This was a large 24x24 format porcelain tile. We completed the install with just 4 tiles!
Long shot for perspective.
Next post we should have most of the door & window casing and baseboards installed if all goes as anticipated. Should also have the kitchen and bath countertops installed. That means we can also finish the plumbing. So close, yet so much still to do...
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