|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Elaine Paphides | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> Building on Currioman Landing | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
| previous page | pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 ALL | next page |
 Artist's rendering of house front (dormers will be gables) |
 Artist's rendering of house rear (dormers will be gables) |
 Staking out the house |
 Staking out the house #2 |
 Planning for digging the foundation |
 Digging the foundation |
 and more foundation digging ... |
 Finally! The cement trucks to pour the footers |
 Footers being poured |
 Concrete blocks - how I love concrete blocks! |
 Positioning - it's all that counts |
 Hoist that block! |
 Master block men |
 THE FOUNDATION! |
 More of the foundation |
 Weeping Mortar - we LOVE it! |
 The crawl space & piers |
 More crawl space & piers |
 First floor TGIs are down |
 Close up of the TGIs in the Den |
 Looking out from the garage down the country driveway |
 From our road, looking up towards the home site (note Gus' fence!) |
 A beautiful shed behind our property |
 From our street, the first floor |
 The first floor (again) from our driveway |
 Preparing the garage floor for cement |
 Laundry room doorway - what a view! |
 Master bedroom cantilevered out |
 From the backyard looking up |
 The garage/laundry room, den & dining rooms |
 You've heard of barn building ... |
 well here the wall is raised by the builders ... |
 here they have the wall up! |
 From the kitchen wall looing through the dining room |
 Great room walls |
 From the master bath window, a car - lousy scenery |
 Gus building our home |
 Me carrying the ladder! |
 The first floor nearing completion as everthing gets closed in |
 Gus watering one of 2 HUGE River Birch trees |
 Watering again, one of 7 Maple trees (when will the well be dug?) |
 A dear Deodar Cedar, just one of 6 (by 8/2005 we've 12 of those beauties!) |
 From the street, the dormers are taking shape |
 Same sight, different angle (sorry, don't want to bore you) |
 Can't wait until the view of our hose IS through trees |
 and through more trees! |
 Local Chimney Art |
 Time to set the rafters in the great room |
 The ridge beam must span the 24 foot divide, |
 and that means walking from the office loft - |
 on a 12-inch wide metal channel - to the bedroom loft, |
 and good balance! YOU GO MAN!! |
 Let go of your breath - it's done and The Acrobat is walking off the stress |
 It's coming together ... |
 but not without a few more acrobatics ... |
 and tension ... |
 only to be lightened with some fun ... |
 WITH continued balancing. |
 You almost can't see the house for the trees :-) |
 Gus loves the angles! |
 And he loves the exposed rafters |
 How would this little decoration look perched upon the garage roof? |
 Up in the office loft planning |
 This "wolf" (Chase - wonder how she got her name) is owned by a neighbor ... hope she likes cats |
 From down in the marsh looking up, |
 I'm feeling serenity |
 If only the garage rafters were up we'd see all the angles |
 but I suppose these angles will have to do for now. |
 From the master bedroom side |
 Our favorite angles are coming together ... |
 ... what a difference 10 days make! (Okay, don't be silly, the guys didn't work all TEN of the days) |
 Trying to keep warm by walking. |
 Warm you need to be. The current home is iced in! |
 No crabs in those crab pots - just ice |
 And more ice all in the cove where friends live |
 Can't wait for this beauty to be placed upon the garage - we bought her from a local 'collector' |
 Gus can't either since there's work to be done on it |
 Only one safe way to get it off the roof - a country-style air-lift (that's a friend on the Kubota we used to own) |
 And, yes, that's Gus riding down in the scoop with the vent |
 And that's the former owner - 83 this 2/14/02! - posing with me behind the truck |
 Just another sunrise with ice on the river |
 The house is finally getting closed in, |
 and the angles are so much more defined |
 Sure is cold out there - the boys work hard at keeping warm ... |
 The cupola is being worked on at the local VoTech school |
 Winter on the prairie |
 A river runs through it, now frozen |
 The bedroom dormers & shed roof |
 Okay, I promised not to but more of the same ... |
 With the front entrance built we're really taking on shape |
 A friendly wave more wood is being cut (our house just eats wood) |
 Up on the roof, the builders balance their luck |
 Can you picture it completed? We can! |
 What we've been waiting for, through rain & snow, sleet & hail - tar paper on the roof |
 More balancing ... |
 A good night wave - can you believe it? Two men tar papered the complete roof in ONE DAY. |
 The Lawn Mower and his family at their mobile home |
 Our new road - a Virginia Scenic Byway |
 The Scenic Byway - the last curve until you reach The Bottom |
 Will the snow ever end in VA? |
 Yes, it did, long enough to start the deck ... |
 so that the rafters over the porch can be supported |
 We've a bit of a deck |
 Oh, the evolution of the cupola ... |
 from painted a light patina green (too light) ... |
 and then a bronze base coat ... |
 to a streaked version with a darker patina green to look like oxidized copper |
 The deck is really coming along but, |
 what happened to those windows & doors! |
 SHINGLES, WATER TIGHT - the shingles are delivered |
 If only we could keep that camera lens level - the house seems to be on a bit of a decline |
 One is on the ground, one on the ladder, the boss at the dormer, and one to the right of the eyebrow window - it take a village |
 They didn't want to build the eyebrow, as you can see from that stance! |
 Nonetheless, they built it and built it well, and did a nice job |
 The eyebrow window is standing out too much here (wait for the photo with the shingles on it!) |
 The porch overhang is done and ready for staining |
 As is the fascia on the garage |
 And there you have it - Gus staining the overhangs and rafters |
 ... with a few days of help, and a few more days of Gus' work, the staining will be done (until the siding is up) |
 Well, that's a deep subject and one we have now, AN ARTESIAN WELL |
 Painted a patina green and ready for its roost on the garage roof! |
 The River Side stained |
 The Gothic window looking up into the loft bedroom |
 This photo looks like a house in a miniature train setup |
 The Cupola and shingles go very well together |
 A closer look and you see ... |
 The Gothic window in the loft bedroom from outside |
 The shingles over the master bath look so fine |
 Another shot of the Cupola (sorry for so many, but we like it!) |
 We never tire of this side (or should I say sides?) |
 The porch overhang is about 8' and another 8' of deck will be 2 steps down |
 Speaking of the overhang, I couldn't resist - it reminds me of our room at La Source in Grenada |
 From the dining room, looking down the porch, past the den, to the laundry room door |
 No, not a Black Submarine, but the LP gas tank that will be submerged |
 More of the eaves/rafters - I like them! |
 The front door (should have pulled that yellow sticker off) |
 Knee supports for the 2' overhangs ... 6x6 upper post, 2x6 back brace and the curved piece was cut out of a 2x12 |
 Sorry, another shot of the cupola - the electrician thought it was copper ... nice faux job by Gus |
 The front lawn (just bought a 25 or 27 hp lawn tractor to replace the goats you saw earlier) |
 The 100+ (maybe even 200+) year old Tulip Tree |
 Did I say fishing was good in our waters? It is! |
 Friends talking with Gus about the house |
 The engineer is admiring the dormers |
 |
 |
 The angles - are you tired of the angles? We aren't! |
 Gothic grandeur (can't wait for you to see it with the siding on!) |
 The Knee Prototype |
 Lightning Rods - Cobalt Blue! |
 |
 |
 Our first dinner - al fresco - tuna sandwich and a beer! |
 Under the horse head, a watchful eye |
 Count the knees in the photo to win a prize ... |
 Gus showing his true colors (NOT). |
 We cut the shed dormer pitch down - it was a good call |
 |
 Eyebrow shot number #1 |
 Eyebrow #2 |
 Eyebrow #3 |
 No, not Jimmy Hoffa, the SEPTIC TANK |
 And septic lines in our once smooth lawn |
 Septic mess, the beauty of rural living |
 A lawn will come of this ... |
 ... or perhaps just a mountain. |
 Who is that and what is he doing !! |
 Twelve Mallard Duck eggs in our lawn |
 The roofing experts do their handiwork |
 There's lots of metal roofing to be done |
 In case you are interested, this is the machine that crimps out the metal sheets |
 It was all worth it! |
 Gus and the never-ending staining project ... we're up to 55 galons I believe ... |
 Can you see the Osprey in the tree? (let me help) |
 Dinner is almost served in our framed-out kitchen! |
 And what you'll see of the kitchen from the great room |
 After dinner a soak in the tub would be nice (wouldn't it!) |
 Electric ... |
 Poetic license, the black pine outside the master bath |
 More eggs but these three are from the Killdeer bird |
 The proud papa of the lawn |
 Yes, he's proud! |
 Finishing up the metal roof |
 It's rough work |
 But look at how nice it is turning out |
 Oh, yes, turning out nice! |
 From the office loft, looking into the attic space |
 June 14 - it's a big day for us ... |
 the drywall is going up so we need to make room in the garage |
 Here's one fellow putting drywall up in the closet |
 Another fellow on stilts, on a walk board, in the garage stairwell |
 Sorry, it's the same guy working in the closet |
 Drywall in the garage bedroom, |
 drywall in the - I can't tell where that is - wait, it's in the stairwell! |
 Gus talking with the "foreman," for lack of a better word |
 Wow, how super nice - a gift from our Lightning Rod Man! |
 Looky here, the Kildeer bird laid a 4th egg! |
 Sorting out the wood looking for a good wall stud |
 This past week Gus and some men did a little clearing along the bank, opening up the view |
 With the clearing done at the beach you have a nice peek at the house |
 And from down at the water ... |
 what we're hoping will be a very clean and sandy beach (then Hurricane Isabel hit 9/03!) |
 The gothic window in the stairwell |
 The gothic window in the loft bedroom |
 By the end of the day this wall will be closed in |
 The dining room gets its drywall (there are 4 teams of guys working) |
 From the office loft a look over to the loft bedroom |
 Looks like the home has always been there! |
 no comment |
 Shingles are going up in the dormers |
 and on the gables! |
 A closer shot of the gable. |
 From this side you can see the un-shingled gable versus the shingled dormer - which looks nicer? |
 Drywall, not so interesting but it's getting done (from the office loft out over the great room) |
 From the garage bathroom door towards the shed dormer windows |
 The other window in the garage bedroom |
 One last shot of the garage bedroom ... |
 From the loft bedroom to the loft office |
 The office loft into the attic room |
 The loft in the loft bedroom and the niche above the bathroom |
 Nothing but a square room, the master bedroom, but it DOES have a view! |
 The stair wall in the great room looked so nice open, but now it's closed in |
 Thank goodness for windows to open things up |
 From the great room into the kitchen - which is now more defined with the knee walls being drywalled |
 Walking into the dining room, looking through the kitchen into the den (sorry for the mess!) |
 More of the mess, sorry, but a view from the den towards the foyer (left) and dining room (right) |
 We'll spend many an evening with friends at the kitchen peninsula fixing food & drink! |
 The festivities won't begin, however, until we choose a stain for the ceiling |
 No decision here! We'll have to keep looking for the right stain. |
 Installation of the Nailite shingles is almost complete - in the garage gable, |
 in the loft bedroom front dormer. |
 One more gable to be done in back - the office gable. Good luck, however, getting to it! |
 The Carriage House garage doors, delivered & installed June 27. |
 A far off look at the garage doors. They've added to the overall effect. |
 Gus had the garage doors trimmed out in beefy wood |
 We've started moving in. Okay, just one of the boats is there ... more to come. |
 Beauty - it is in the eye of the beholder, and this beholder finds old sheds and barns beautiful! |
 Three fine gables, one fine dormer, and a super roof vent to boot! |
 The garage gable with all the trim - shake shingles, and icing! |
 A shot of the "icing" on the laundry room gable |
 Icing on the garage gable in front - and the icing was salvaged from a 100+ year old home |
 Need to move that mountain out of the way |
 It's coming along |
 From afar - all we need is the "icing" in the front entrance to look like we can move in! |
 Laundry room door framed out |
 Choosing colors is always difficult. Do you like the primer color for the doors? No? Neither do we! |
 So we're going for the Barn Red effect with this color |
 The exterior of the house is almost complete |
 The railing along the back deck can be seen in this and the photo before |
 We still need to have the lower deck built here and the railing, but that will come a bit later |
 And we certainly need to push sone dirt around and plant some shrubs |
 When the lower deck off the den is complete you'll see us out there - don't go to the front door, just come on back! |
 Speaking of the front door, completion of the entrance has begun ... soon ... |
 It's hard to get the angle but this is the BLONDE pine for which we FINALLY found a stain that will take! (7/16/03) |
 Okay, sorry, but one more shot of the stained wood, a better photo! |
 We got wise. Instead of staining wood on the ceiling, we stained 100 8' boards Saturday |
 but that wasn't enough - we stained 38 more 16' boards! |
 By the time we finished up 33 more 16' boards on Sunday, we had drying rack setup down! |
 Not bad for 2 days' work. Over 60 16' boards stacked up in the den |
 and in the great room |
 And a total of 100 8' boards. Still have more 16' and 12' boards to stain! |
 Friday, July 25, and the great room ceiling is finished! |
 And, yes, it was The Acrobat at the peak of the ceiling on the walk board positioning and nailing the wood! |
 Looks good. Thanks again to two friends who told us about the stain! |
 No sooner had we finished staining the wood than Gus started in painting |
 here the foyer ceiling is done in Cookie Crumbs (thanks to a friend's suggestion!) |
 as is the kitchen ceiling |
 There are, however, other things for us to do besides painting – |
 And then there’s the Saturday Night bath – |
 Once cleaned up, we'll get the interior doors installed and |
 the AC working, and move some of our furniture & belongings into the house. |
 The painting continues so that it is complete when the beams go up. |
 The kitchen, dining, and den will be a dark faux. |
 It's looking good - Gus has been hard at work on the painting. |
 Got to get the house ready for when the Turkeys Trot by! |
 Front door stained, now where is that door handle? |
 Laundry door painted |
 Blue Moon In June, or rather August, coming up along the vent! |
 Great room fauxed front wall - goes nice with the Cookie Crumbs |
 the office fauxed |
 LQQK, here's the Carolina Wren in her nest! |
 Gus has been very busy painting - here's the master bath in Navajo White |
 and the master bedroom entrance hall fauxed |
 Master Bedroom fauxed |
 and some more of the fauxed walls |
 Now for the garage bedroom painted in Havana Cream ... |
 more Havana Cream |
 and even more Havana Cream (like you wanted to see MORE?) |
 Laundry Fauxed (wait until you see the floor tiles!) |
 See anything different? |
 Yes, the windows and doors are being framed out in 2x8 rough-cut pine |
 The stain was a little darker than it had to be, |
 but overall, not a bad look! |
 The dining room window looks exceptionally good to me! |
 One beam in the master bedroom is done |
 and the master bedroom wall to the deck looks great. |
 Talking tiles ... |
 DATELINE, FRIDAY, 9/22/03 - work has begun on the tile floor |
 Thirteen boxes of Terra Cotta tiles, |
 now laid, 9/22/03, in the laundry room |
 Gus had some blue tiles left over and so we have Tacos! |
 Tacos in the laundry room, |
 a taco leading out the door |
 Measuring for tile cuts |
 The tub saw (like you've never seen one?!) |
 Cutting the tiles |
 tacos in the hall |
 And the preparation to cut for a taco insert |
 NEXT WEEK, 9/25 - Wood flooring installed, then these stained beams go up in the great room |
 sure are a lot of HUGE beams! Can't remember 6x6 or 6x8. |
 Let's talk Doors |
 The doors (YES, they are leaning up agains the FAUXED WALL!) - do people think? |
 We've three sets of bi-fold doors, but we only need TWO SETS! |
 From the attic area, a door to the garage bath |
 Here's a shot of the interior door in garage bedroom |
 Sunday, 9/24/03, and the grout is getting wiped down |
 Tile work ... just about done! |
 The finished tile in back hall ... |
 and looking into the laundry room. |
 Now that the tile is in we're ready for the cabinetry - delivered! |
 And look what else was delivered - the bath fixtures!! |
 What a pile of porceline and metal ... |
 can't forget the Kitchen Sink |
 "Make Love Not War" just an idea that never ends |
 Have you seen the show "If Walls Could Talk"? Ours do. |
 Master bedroom framed out - nice sun light |
 The local post office and rescue corner |
 Gus staining the windows - that weekend he and I stained over 20 windows! |
 The staining factory |
 We're a little anxious and so had to see how the green commode would look in the powder room |
 Back to business at hand - the flooring arrived ... |
 and it will be laid beginning 9/10/03 |
 Took a boat ride last weekend with friends and he're what we saw! |
 Our new house from the point. |
 WOW - the laundry room cabinets are up, |
 the loft bathroom cabinets are in, |
 and I have to say the loft bedroom is looking good with the framing at the ceiling |
 and around the bathroom door. We'll be painting the closet louvered doors green. |
 Back to the cabinets, here's one in the master bath - knotty alder all! |
 The men finish up laying the pine flooring in the kitchen |
 He is very proud of his work and should be, it's great! |
 The electrician has been busy and here's the light fixture in foyer! |
 He put one fan/light up in the den, the rest have to wait until we paint the downrods and get some beams up in the rooms. |
 (Just me having a little artistic fun with shadows) |
 Still standing, with no damage, after Hurricane Isabel 9/18/03 - there's always something getting in the way of building! |
 At last, the posts & beams are going up in the great room |
 The posts & beams frame out the entrance rather nicely |
 AND, happiness abounds: the front entrance is standing with no supports - the POSTS are up now that the brick work is done |
 Pretty soon the bar will be open! |
 The kitchen cabinets came in - Evergreen/Cranberry rub! |
 So now, 10/5/03, over a year since breaking ground, it seems like a moonshot but we WILL move in soon. |
 Morning in the Northern Neck |
 October 12, 2003 - we know the fireplace won't be done when we move in so Gus worked on the prototype! |
 The posts & beams are complete in the great room - it looks GREAT |
 A view from above of the great room post & beams |
 Gus cutting up - thought he'd make me believe he was falling ;-) |
 The kitchen peninsula is just WAITING for a counter top ... wonder what it will be |
 Sorry about the hat ... we'll move in w/o counter tops and here is where the sink will be |
 The kitchen pendant lamp, we'll have two between the kitchen and dining room |
 The bath lights, one of the two selected |
 Here are the two styles, which one do you like? |
 A friend from Alaska was visiting and he hadn't seen the house for quite some time. It had changed! |
 Master bath tiles waiting to be used, |
 more tiles waiting, |
 and even MORE tiles. Takes a lot for a shower & tub surround! |
 I am SO 1950s in how excited I am to use my NEW washer & dryer - I've never had new! |
 And my refrigerator, Sears' Trio, I can't wait! |
 And then there's my stove, Sears again - dual fuel with a little appetizer oven! |
 Isn't it marvelous? (Oh I feel just like Laura Petrie, or Donna Reed, or June Cleaver, or - you get the point!) |
 The shower tiles going up, or down. |
 |
 Fauxed master bedroom entrance |
 Fauxed half bath door |
 Fauxed study doors |
 Gus & the new and best Tile Man |
 A close-up of the shelves we were able to take advantage of, |
 Not just 2 but 3 shelves to hold our potions out of sight! |
 Look at that GLORIOUS wall. I suppose using a shower curtain is out of the question as it would hide the tiles and would = $$ |
 Measuring the cabinets for glass. |
 Gus & the builder talking wood - our house eats wood! |
 We have been waiting to see how the lights look in the kitchen |
 and we really think it pulled things together! |
 The garage bedroom fan ... |
 the loft bedroom fan; |
 The office fan up under (?); |
 another view of the office fan |
 trusses from below unfinished |
 Thinking |
 Working on the truss in the office |
 Out on a limb - again - working on the office truss |
 Drilling the holes for the bolts |
 Trusses, trusses everywhere - what we've been waiting for |
 Tiled tub surround - all the tile will be done by 10/29 |
 The tub surround backsplash |
 Gus painting the bolts as the roof caves in? Looks like they're worried! |
 Trusses in the air, as are a few builders |
 Trusses through & through |
 Painting the bolts |
| previous page | pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 ALL | next page |
| comment | share |