Trim and more trim.

This week we have made the transsition from working on the inside to finishing the outside of the house. Much of the fancy trim was cut last fall, but tucked away as the colder weather set in. Now we are again working on the base coats and three layers of glaze each piece will get.

The outside of the house has a hearts theme and the trim has thousands of tiny hearts routed into the center panels in four layers. The painting and glazing is designed to highlight them. In this picture Sarah is putting on the second of three glazes on one of the scores of boards.

One more done with a hundred to go. :)

-grampa dan

Final strokes

It is always a delightful thing when we can finally call another room in the new house totally done. Today Janis' office got the nod, making it ready for the move in. The living room is also getting very close. Everyone has been busy applying the multiple coats of glaze and carefully cutting in the trim. One side of the bridge is now complete with the second side due tomorrow. The butterfly trim looks spectacular.

Janis painted the plain middle sections of the wall this evening.

Tomorrow we'll cut the last of the wainscotting making the room ready for furniture at last. I can hardly wait to sit in the love seats and just enjoy the space. It seems like a lifetime ago Janis & I sat in our old house and sketched out our ideas, dreaming of the day we would get to live here. Now after a tremendous amount of work by many fine people that dream comes true.

-grampa dan

Cut, cut, cut, glue

Today I spent at the tile saw measuring and cutting what seemed like endless stacks of tile for the living room floor. Once I was around the entire edge it was time to mix up some morter and glue them into place. After supper, at last, the final tile was in place. 

Tomorrow it will be time for the grout. Final paint will also happen this week and pretty soon it will be time to move in the furniture!

-grampa dan