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Project 13a: Preparing the
New Building....
Project 13b: The New Building-The
Farmhouse....
Project 13c: The New
Building-The Barn |
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Project 13b: Finishing the Farmhouse
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Siding...
Kitchen... Dining
Room Table... Painting...
Fixing and Repairing...
Heating... Plumbing... |
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Finally, we were ready for the siding
on the farmhouse...traditional white clapboards. |
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The Interior of the Farmhouse
progressed while we waited for the modular GC to get the
heating/plumbing men there....and waited....and waited....and
waited...... |
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The Farmhouse Kitchen
The farmhouse came with a hole in the kitchen wall. |
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The kitchen 'bumpout' was added
to replace the hole..a good start towards weatherproofing. |
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The bumpout was sheetrocked and
primed. |
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Then the kitchen cabinets
arrived and were installed on 4" bases, so that I will finally have
countertops at MY height! |
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The views from the kitchen counter are gorgeous. |
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Don and Will, from Colby and Gale, hook up the gas kitchen stove. |
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Time to position the island,
now that the stove is in place. |
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And Chris and Brad hold up the hood and granite backsplash...and I paint
the kitchen to match a set of gorgeous turquoise chandeliers that I
found at Lowe's! |
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Then we placed the barn door
that was planned to become the counter on top of the island to start planning the
right shape... |
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...but too much of it would
have to be cut, so I chose some barnboards to take its place... |
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And Chris has cut and mortared the granite tiles for the countertop...now
all we need to place is the backsplash and front counter trim. |
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Chris used his tilesaw to get the piece to fit 'just so'. |
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Here's the front counter trim...Chris created a bullnose wood trim to
match the cabinet and drawer style...then painted it white. |
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Steve placed the crown molding in the kitchen bumpout area. |
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And Richard helped me to place the glass in the upright cabinets, once
they were installed. |
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The guys put the barnboards down in the kitchen--a great idea from Steve
to use the grayboards for a trim and the brown boards for the center and
I stained all the gray to keep its color...and then polyurethaned the
full floor three times for durability. |
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The Farmhouse
Dining Room--The Table
Brad was the designer and
architect of the table, made from timbers and a door form the Homer
Jones barn, but didn't get the right length, so brother Steve modified
it to fit the room. |
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Then trimmed the door to fit. |
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And Richard and I glazed the top and sides with Glaze Coat epoxy...a
whole story in itself! |
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Is it finally an even coat? I can see myself! |
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The staircases |
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The Marriage
Walls
Remind me to tell you about the pros and cons of buying a modular home.
Modulars are pretty terrific, as long as you get the right company to
build you one. I definitely got the WRONG company to build this one. The
list of screw-ups is pretty much endless, but this is a very obvious
one. The marriage walls are supposed to be placed in line with one
another, so that the whole building sits correctly, plumb. You can see
here how mis-matched they are and what my guys needed to do to correct
the opening to trim out the door. Let's not think about what the
misalignment is doing to the building!~ |
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Painting the
Bedrooms |
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One of the challenges of
painting bold colors is that they stand out, so their edges are obvious.
They also take from two to five coats to cover and reach the desired
shade. So here's the 5th coat of green for the Malachite Room on the
first floor of the Farmhouse. |
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Here's the Tangerine Citrine
room. ..a luscious citrus orange, to be offset with other citrus and
navy. |
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Across the hall is the Amethyst
room. |
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Down the hall is the Lapis
Lazuli Room. |
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And across from that is the
Maine standard: Watermelon Tourmaline. |
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The basement |
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The Heat
Finally, seven months after it
was supposed to be finished, the heating/plumbing guys tied in the
heating system and we could stop using the kerosene heaters that were
keeping the basement floor from heaving. |
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The spacious buildings will
definitely need some heat in these Maine winters! |
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The
Plumbing |
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