Living Simply for a Better Life
We have gotten several things done over the last week and weekend, but it still feels so slow. Mom and I finished the battens on the end of the house on Thursday, so finally that is done and can be stained. This past Saturday, it […]
Another Saturday with Brother-in-law extraordinaire and we accomplished more than we set out to do. The logs are all the way up and the two upstairs windows are in.
Over the weekend, we were blessed to have a brother come to visit as well as a friend who comes regularly to lend some man power to this operation. We took advantage of the triple man power and we got a lot done. A couple […]
One thing we want to do while building this house, is use what we have, when we can, and refurbish great finds (or great deals) as much as we can. It is about saving money, but it is also a fun challenge. Sometimes it even […]
Once we had the eaves done, we treated all the wood with 2 layers of Timbor and then stained it all. We are using a neutral stain that we found at an overstock warehouse. It retails for over $30 per gallon, but they had it […]
This is the exterior within 2 weeks. The next week they finished the roof and we were officially dried in, although, we still didn’t have windows. By fall we had started putting the logs up. We started on the front and went as far […]
Being in possession of several large rolls of radiant heat barrier, we have researched all the possible ways to use it. It works for radiant heat, so there needs to be air space directly against the silver side for it to work as intended. It […]
We have made a lot of progress since September. Rain has kept us from working as much as we’d like, but hopefully we will be in by late summer. We’ll post pictures as we can until we catch up. Here is the end of day […]