So hard to believe a full year has passed since Mr. Lipham and his logging crew, J. M. Log Craftsman, arrived and in 28 days had our cabin completely dried in! We were sure at that time that we would have finished the inside by now. We’re definitely getting close, and a lot has happened since I last posted, but we’re still not there yet.
A year ago:
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- 10/1/13- Dave stands by while George directs the delivery of our logs
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- 10/31/13- Mr. Lipham and Bingo supervise the placement of the basement supports posts
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- 11/2/13- the cabin begins to take shape
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- our building crew busy at work on the roof system
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- 11/10/13- laundry room and half bath on the left
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- 11/12/13- first section of the a-frame in place
I believe I left off Labor Day weekend with us having finally finished putting up the tongue and groove walls. The next several weekends were spent sanding, cleaning, staining and putting the finish coat on the entire inside of the place. For one reason or another, I ended up not being able to go down to help Dave out as he completed these ever so tedious tasks. I confess, I would be lying if I said that I was sorry to have missed out on all that excitement! 😜
The completed walls upstairs, before the finish coat-
The walls only look slightly different after the stain and finish coat were applied. We went with a natural stain and clear satin finish coat which added only a slight warm tone, a dull sheen and ultraviolet protection to prevent the wood from yellowing over the years.
Just a word of advice to anyone attempting to spray on a finish coat over such a large area- wear long sleeves! Once dry, it is not easily removed. Dave ended up shaving his arms…. yep, I’m still not hating the fact I missed out on all that fun.
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- Dave, after a long couple of days staining and applying finish coat to the walls
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- Sasquatch!
About this time, Dave’s folks came down for a visit and were anxious to check out our progress in person. We had just received the new light for the half bath so Dave jumped on the opportunity to finally get in a little father son project as he had Frank help him install the new light over the sink.
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- Max and Grammy on the front porch…Max is loving that he’s so much taller that she is now 🙂
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- three generations of Kings: Dave, Betty, Max and Frank
With the finish coat finally done, we were then able to put up the kitchen cabinets that had been delivered months ago and had since been lying in boxes waiting to be hung.
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- Dave uses the laser level to mark the lower edge of the upper cabinet
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- he then attaches a 2 x 4 to the wall to act as a placement guide
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- Dave and Max lift the first cabinet..Max then holds it in place and Dave attaches it to the wall
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- on to the second cabinet
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- upper cabinets hung, onto the lower cabinets
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- stove and microwave will go in here
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- breakfast bar
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- sink will go under the window, the refrigerator to the right
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- me, hanging out in my new kitchen
With the cabinets in place, next on the agenda was to hang the ceiling fan in the great room while we still had use of the scaffolding that Dave had rented to used for spraying the finish coat.
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- our new fan…now to put it together
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- monkey Dave scurries up the side of the scaffolding with his tools
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- after deciding what length arm to attach the fan to, Dave begins to put it together
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- Dave goes to work attaching the wires
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- now to attach the fan blades
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- after taking down the upper level of scaffolding, Dave realizes he still needs to attach one more piece…no worries, a ladder will do the trick
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- Dave attaches the final piece
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- so far so good, now, let’s hope Andy’s wiring didn’t get screwed up when the roof was put on!
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- flashback to 11/15/13, when Andy drilled trough seven layers of sub roofing to run the wire!
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- Max gets the honor of turning the fan on for the first time
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- hooray, it worked!
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- the new fan is amazingly quiet and puts out a ton of air…excellent!
the coleman cabin 
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