A workbench kitchen island
Noah Bradley2019-06-29T10:19:10+00:00
The Workbench/Island in the kitchen serves as the “go-to place”, located in the center of the home.
Originally posted 2015-07-15 14:30:17.
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Chestnut cabinets
Noah Bradley2019-06-29T10:19:09+00:00
We made the kitchen cabinets out of antique wormy chestnut.
And for the floor, we used locally gathered flagstone.
Originally posted 2015-07-15 14:21:53.
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A timber framed kitchen
Noah Bradley2019-06-29T10:19:08+00:00
Here’s a photo looking down into the kitchen from the loft above.
Originally posted 2015-07-15 14:15:28.
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A home should be a legacy
Noah Bradley2019-06-29T10:19:07+00:00
Once completed the cabin begins to blend into the landscape.
Trees will soon be planted.
The owner will let the siding turn naturally grey. The only feature on the exterior that will ever need attention will be the wood windows. A coat of paint every six years or so.
The copper roof no longer sparkles like a new penny. I guess we all go through a snappy youthful period in our lives but it quickly fades. Thankfully there is much to appreciate with maturity.
It will be a different world two hundred years from now… I and everyone else alive will be gone, but I believe this home will still be standing to witness that time and will still be enjoyed by the unnamed decedents of the current owner.
Maybe, one of them will discover my initials written on the back of a piece of paneling.
Originally posted 2015-07-14 13:37:51.
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Copper turns brown with age
Noah Bradley2019-06-29T10:19:06+00:00
A year or so later… the grass had turned green and the copper roof… brown.
Originally posted 2015-07-14 13:15:34.
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Iron railing
Noah Bradley2019-06-29T10:19:05+00:00
We used iron railing around the exterior basement stairs. It is easy and quite often tempting when I am building a home of natural wood to get carried away and use it everywhere… such as to fill in the area between these heart-pine posts.
I find that an occasional splash of iron though “snazzes” things up a bit, and accentuates the wood that I did use.
Originally posted 2015-07-14 13:10:51.
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Barn door in the loft
Noah Bradley2019-06-29T10:19:04+00:00
From the loft above the timber-frame kitchen we built a sliding barn type door, using old lumber and hardware, to give this area a bit of privacy when desired.
Originally posted 2015-07-13 20:47:45.
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Design changes
Noah Bradley2019-06-29T10:19:03+00:00
There are a lot of details that make this cabin special… the logs, the copper roof, the stone chimney, the heart pine siding, and of course, the overall design… but for me, the one element that makes this cabin “snap” is the hip roof on the front porch.
I didn’t draw that hip feature in when I created the original plans… it was one of those “job site changes” that are so common on our projects. Something wasn’t right with a simple shed roof on this cabin as I had drawn it to be… it was just too… plain.
We had to fuss for a while in creating the right angle on this hip roof, moving boards around and then standing back and taking a look at it, but eventually we reached this look… and we liked what we saw.
I hope you do to.
Originally posted 2015-07-13 20:05:33.
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Time for siding
Noah Bradley2019-06-29T10:19:02+00:00
At this point in the construction, with the chinking finished and the siding going up, we could easily start to imagine what the finished cabin would look like.
Originally posted 2015-07-12 14:10:29.
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Finally, it’s time to chink!
Noah Bradley2019-06-29T10:19:01+00:00
With the copper roof installed our attention quickly turned to the in installation of the windows and then the chinking of the exterior of the cabin. We would soon have the house closed-in from the weather.
Originally posted 2015-07-12 13:53:39.