Wednesday, May 19, 2010

paint colors


While the crew works outside on the decking, the painters prime the interior. The interior wall colors throughout the house are loosely based on the colors found in a carton of eggs.

decking



Deck boards are installed on top of the timber framing. A thick nosing wraps around the perimiter of the deck.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

timber frame deck support




The local white oak timber posts sit within the rock retaining wall. The timber deck framing wraps around the house on three sides. The basement siding is completed. It is deliberately different from the clapboard siding on the rest of the house.

exterior finish



The carpenter are putting up local quarter sawn spruce siding over a rain-screen. Dave Brett of the Colby Hill Landscape Co. worked excavator work the excavator to place boulders to retain the grade near the house. The boulders fit in with the other rocks that are strewn about the site.