Today Janis & I finally had the time to sit down and talk about how we wanted to do our window/door trim in the living room, dining room and entry areas. Janis has long loved a butterflies and so we decided this would be the theme of these areas. The trim will resemble the heart trim on the exterior of the house with a layered panel (of butterflies instead of hearts) in the center.

We started with a sketch as always. We determined the butterfly antenna and tail would have to be removed due to the scale of the butterlies.

We would use our MultiCam CNC router to create the panels. I created the router program and then set the fancy computerized machine into motion.

The test panel looked pretty good. We looked it over carefully and decided to make a couple of minor tweaks to make it better. The butterflies will be enlarged just a tad to help them route better. I'll also adjust the spacing just a little as well. As a point of reference this panel is 8" wide as it will be between and around the big round windows.

Tomorrow the routing of the permanent panels wll begin. I can hardly wait to start putting all the pieces together soon.

-grampa dan