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.
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.
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.
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.
The house then reached it’s “ugly period”… you know, that time of a home’s construction when all the exterior wrap has torn loose a few times, when the yard is scattered with debris, when someone had tacked up a sheet of plywood over a window opening to keep the rain out.
But then, the roofers showed up with their shiny copper and all those ladders.
Originally posted 2015-07-12 12:28:31.
I really like this photo.
I know, a lot of people just see a construction shot of a house being built… “seen it before”… “what’s the big deal?”
But for me, this house, this perspective of this house, is a symphony of roof lines.
Originally posted 2015-07-11 12:41:57.
After the chimney was completed we then framed up the small home-office, making use of left-over timbers from the other additions off of this cabin.
This would be a small cozy space, with a lot of charm featuring a log wall, the stone of the chimney, three walls that were timber framed, and windows with a view to die for.
Originally posted 2015-07-11 12:01:08.
A log home without a stone chimney is like a canoe without a paddle.
Originally posted 2015-07-10 15:45:12.
Like toadstools the porch post columns pop out of the ground.
Originally posted 2015-07-10 15:04:11.
Here we have the harsh contrast of the old, and the new. The best of what once was, with the best of what is new.
Tyvek is a wonderful product, (although a royal pain to install on a windy day). It repels moisture from reaching the wood, yet allows the wood to breath beneath it. And it’s low in cost compared to the value that one receives from it.
It’s not very pretty to look at though… I’m not certain why the manufacturer feels it so important to blast their name brand all over it. Even so, I try to apply this house wrap so that the wording is not upside down or at an angle. I’m funny that way… I don’t want salvagers centuries into the future thinking that I was a sloppy builder.
Originally posted 2015-07-10 14:51:29.
