I showed some of the detail we will be incorporating into the exterior house trim. It features the heart motif throughout.

Since then we've been playing with incorporating this theme on other areas than just the trim. The trees will incorporate the hearts in a subtle fashion. A missing branch will form a heart shaped knot hole. It's subtle but will still be there for those who really look. Some the the beam ends will also use this subtle feature.

The porch railing will be sculpted stone. After exploring many diffenent options we settled on heart shaped holes in each panel. Peter welded up the first of five frameworks to test the idea. It passed inspection.

It's fun to take a theme and push it to the max. I'm sure there will be a few more hearts to come.

-grampa dan