Double A framing, Louis & company continue to install all the windows, exterior doors, sliders, and exterior siding work as well; back porch started to get the cypress installed, but had to clear off for Bryan Thomas of "Thomas Family Stained Concrete" whom came in Thursday morning to start cleaning and applying samples for selection--and Mike & Janis showed up Friday morning for a selection, and low and behold after buffing off, most of the color seemed to have disappeared! Bryan and family applied another pass of stain on a couple of samples which we all liked--imagine that!! So that afternoon (Friday) a decision was made, and staining commenced. Saturday morning I ran out to check on things and had a small melt-down with the rolling of the Zip tape and flashing--or better yet, lack thereof. We still needed more Zip tape & window flashing tape (Fortiflash) after the 100 rolls we have been through already--that could be slightly exaggerated!! Enough of that...Mike graciously recognized I was not a happy camper and offered a ride to Stock Building supply to pick up MORE Zip tape and to cool-down. Prior to us leaving it was decided to hit the stain one more time with Walnut I believe to warm it up just a bit with some more gold/brown enhancements. Janis and Mike were to return at 3:00pm to throw some holy water on before the sealing would be applied Janis just "absolutely loves it"--I think Mike is OK with it as well except the zebra strips in his office, laundry, and master bedroom (these were created by some framing material laying on the floor apparently and suspected it got wet momentarily--staining concrete is Voodoo!!); rugs, beds, etc are probably considerations for some of those areas--its really just MORE character. Here is a shot of the entry with one of Janis's treasures...after the floor stain was applied...
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| Geode at entry with concrete stained & curved scoring. | | |
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| Geode at back porch after concrete stained. |
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Here are a few pictures of the exterior cornice work and windows...
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| Rear view of Janis's studio & Yoga room upstairs. |
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| Outside view of master closet area. |
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| Exterior view of side media room. |
The combination of staggered lap siding integrated with the board & batten above a freeze board is a very nice architectural feature that Janet Hobbs' of "Hobbs' Ink, Custom Home Design" incorporated. After exterior paint and masonry are installed it will really have some great diversity of textures and architectural uniqueness!! Way to go Janet!! I have also been following a parade home in Rough Hollow that Janet as well designed...It is one of the best designed from and architectural standpoint (my opinion); it has a little contemporary flare to it which I aspire to. I took my wife, Cynthia out to the Cowell Project for the first time last weekend, and she absolutely loves the layout of the house!! She said she would mind something like that--that's when I walked back inside so I would not hear the complaining of living in the same house for over 11 years!!
In addition to the layout, and the exterior finish-out we have some interesting ceiling treatments going on as well. After stopping in at an open house I had in Belvedere early this year, Mike & Janis had Janet incorporate some dropped floating back lighted ceiling treatments that have some organic curves to them--we are not 100% complete with them and we are tweaking and augmenting slightly for a little more WOW factor.
Here is a picture of the framing of some of the ceiling treatments that interface at the sitting room to the kitchen...
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| Dropped floating, back lighting ceiling treatments at frame--not 100% complete just yet. |
Floor covering will commence Tuesday morning, and we will start to get mechanicals installed thereafter.
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