There were some big visual changes this week as the interior finishing got underway. The first sign of action is the piles of materials around the house.

Cedar shakes for the exterior.

Piles of T&G for the inside.

Trucks of 1×12!

The kitchen, coat closet, hall, and about 2/3 of the the living room are completed already.

Another big change is apparent as soon you walk in the front door. There’s a hole in the back of the house! Shortly, that hole will be filled with another set of french doors. French doors to nowhere, you ask? No, french doors to the new deck! 

The new deck wraps around from the back of the house to the porch, so now you can walk around the outside of the house form the front door to the new back door. It was a nearly universal question from everyone that visited the house: “why isn’t there a deck off of the porch?” Our rationale was that we could have a better view from inside of the house, and from the porch, if there was not a deck. With the deck built, you can not see the river from the porch because the deck is directly in the line of sight. I’m fully expecting someone to say, “I can’t see the river from the porch”, but hopefully the ability to walk out the back of the house onto the deck will offset that.

We also trekked down to the river, which was a bit perilous. We have not walked down recently, and the fresh leaves turned the hill into a slip and slide. We had quite a crew on hand today, including many of Rocky’s favorite people. He was a little bit jealous of the big sticks everyone picked up to walk down the hill with!

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Rocky, Brittany, Mom & Dad Katz, Alyssa, and Josh plotting where to put a firepit and beach chairs.