Finally!

We are moved in and this house is our pride and joy. A few small trim pieces and a barn door are the only things left on our list of to dos.  The barn door is in process and will be the master bath door.

quick views of finished parts of the house. One last post planned with finished photos.

Catch up on the DIY Home Finish

And it happened!  We finished the floors!

Alot of "final" things happening. We had out refrigerator installed. 

What is a cabin in the woods without a cedar log bed! This bed came in two packages and we were able to fairly easily put it together. 

Next is a series of photos of our shower install. Steps: install mortar with base slope for good water drainage layer rubber membrane to seal the bottom of the shower pan. Mortar pan on top of rubber membrane before installing tiles. Install cut pebble tiles. Grouted in floor tiles.

The walls were built out with a layer of tar paper, cement backerboard, thinset on seams then sealing tape and water proofing. The wall tiles will be next on the list.

Floors! Floors! Floors!

ALMOST DONE!

It is with great pride I announce we are getting the floors done!  Every 6" wide pine board installed by hand one at a time.  Finished rooms: 3 closets, small bathroom, hallway, master bathroom and bedroom, second bedroom and the kitchen! All that is left is the living area and the laundry room. Once we have them all in, we will be sanding them then applying tung oil to seal them. Here are some pics!

                      

We are excited to have one working bathroom!  The small bathroom only lacks a few pieces of trim. However, the water flows!! In and out 

Next week we will be finishing the kitchen sink. As it always is, you buy everything you need only to find out you didn't buy everything to you need. Another trip to the store in sight.

Kitchen counters! DIY Cedar Island counter top

Still working on the floors, but taking a break to work on the kitchen cabinets and counter tops. We purchased butcher block for the cabinets along the wall. We are using tung oil to seal the wood.

For the island we purchased 3 slabs of cedar. Each with unfinished edges and approximately 3" deep. We ripped the long pieces so that we could glue them together to get a long and wide counter top. 

One side edge was in disrepair, so we ended up cutting it off and attached a drop from one of the other boards. 




We sealed the underside with tung oil and will be doing the same for the top. We rounded the ends so they are not so blunt and we will be adding the iron supports on the overhanging side where we can put bar stools.

We originally purchased the same cabinet hardware for both sets of cabinets, but the dark metal was too dark on the dark island cabinets. So we painted the hardware white and slightly sanded them to make them look really rustic. They remind me of the old cast iron knobs my grandmother had. 

The wall cabinets look pretty awesome!

And our faucet came in!  love it!          Getting pretty hot hear with temps in upper 90's. Time for a shower!

                                                                                                 

DIY Home Build

Can't believe it is time to put the floors in!  No one ever said building out your home is fast and easy. However, we have reached the point of installing our floors. Despite the months it took to finally decide on a design, installation is underway. We investigated stain and paint and we have done too many tile floors to do that again, so we chose wood planks.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Here they are resting inside for a few weeks before we install this set. We purchased center back, number 122 pattern, yellow pine 16' long boards.   We  purchased Bondtec flooring adhesive that will provide a water barrier as well as a good adherence to the slab. The next step will be to fully complete the installation in the house, sand and seal the floor. 

Below the photos show the installation of a base or initial board. Off that board sets of boards will be installed. Using a floor jack and 2 x 4 boards we are able to join the boards and keep them in place until the adhesive fully cures.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Small 1/2 bath floor is in!  Sanding and sealing will come soon.

The kitchen cabinets are complete and installed. The rustic cabin look of the white cabinets came out great. Our butcher block counter tops are resting on top of the cabinets. They are on the schedule to be installed in a few weeks. 

This photo show the trim complete on the windows and ceiling, including around the vent hood. 

Garden vegetables are in too! Only two almost freezing overnight temps, but they are looking good.

Power!!

Just in the nick of time! We have power and we have our heat pump up and running. Spring time here goes by really fast and we will be hitting upper 90's soon. We are ready! Systems are all working great and had no issues with getting them running.  All light fixtures are in and working great. It still may take us some time to remember to flip a switch for light!  So used to working in the dark...

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Now that we are getting into a list of smaller projects my husband is keeping a running punch list and so far every weekend we have completed all that was scheduled plus a little more. It is exciting now to see things coming together and the hardest decisions are over!!

Lots of beautiful light!

Moving right along, we have found these cedar planks and we will be making our kitchen island counter out of these at a later date. Aren't they gorgeous?👉

I like the live edge, it is really going to look great on our island. By the way it now looks like this. 

A friend gave us the old barn wood we used across the long side and another friend gave us the old rusty  metal we used on both ends. We stained the store bought base cabinets mahogany and it will be a fabulous contrast to the wall cabinets. 
Speaking of:👇 Here is a series of photos showing the steps we are going through with finishing the kitchen cabinets. After a sanding, we stained the cabinets Dark Walnut. Once that dried, we painted them with two coats of white paint. The finishing touches will be a sanding on just the edges to bring out the darker color underneath and then final finish of a clear glaze.

The stain sure makes them dark

Painted 

That photo doesn't do the house justice. I will upload another soon, but the lights are just amazing 

What's a farm without vegetables? We have a lot of seedlings growing and they will be transplanted into the raised beds soon. Also, added two citrus trees and another peach tree. Some of the vegetables: broccoli, kale, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, peppers, squash