HOME BUILDING
Posts about posts! And holes and studs and timbers and all of the various pieces that make a house a place to live as opposed to an ominous pile of materials a truck drops off beside a big hole.
nik The Converts
Mom and Dad F. converting the range from natural gas to propane.
nik Kitchen taking shape
Cabinets assembled and mostly installed, save for the upper corner cabinets. Live-edge Walnut island top (more on that in another post) on top of Allstyle custom cabinet doors and drawers on Ikea cabinet boxes. Island: Benjamin Moore Whispering Spring (pale blue) Walls: Benjamin Moore Agreeable Gray (greige) Bell lights: Pottery Barn Rustic Glass Pendant (Large) Island […]
nik Assembly Line
This being our second full Ikea kitchen (along with a few bathrooms, mudrooms, and storage areas where we used their cabinets), assembly was very quick. The new Sektion assembly and hanging system are pretty slick and intuitive as well.
nik Kitchen ceiling
Another full view of the kitchen ceiling coming together.
nik We thought we were so close!
Kitchen ceiling at about the halfway point: painted/whitewashed tongue and groove 6″ pine between 8×10″ Douglas fir timbers.
nik Door to door delivery
The interior doors arrived. Then they left because they were the wrong ones. But then they arrived again and were all we had ever hoped and dreamed of (because your dreams are overrun by mundane thoughts, decisions and checklists when you’re trying to build a house).
nik Focus on the tile floor.
Just look at the flooring. Don’t mind the installer.
nik Working hard or hardly working
Milly helps Chip bolt together some deck beams, while NEVER ONCE COMPLAINING. Actually she really did enjoy it and did a great job.
nik Super trooper
Chip bolting together the beams on the front porch deck.
nik Sanding machine
Grampa Old sanding down the sheathing joints before flooring is laid. Lots of exposure made the joints swell during the build, but he belt-sanded them all down.