Colorado

Sam and David are having a great time in Colorado this week. Snowboarding at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and snowmobiling around Frisco. These were fast snow machines!

Cabinet Sample

Here is my spalted maple and cherry kitchen cabinet sample door. Pretty cool, huh? When Bob Newman showed us the spalted maple in his shop I started looking into ways to use it to create an unusual cabinet design. When I saw the kitchen that Michael Seward created I knew that we had found our look. Only 9 doors are made this way...the rest of the kitchen is curly cherry.

What A Week!

Wow, an exciting week of changes! Cedar shingles on the front dormer, the front door being installed, ceilings in the kitchen and master bath, drywall taped and finished downstairs, framing started on the main log staircase, framing of the Master bedroom closets, interior doors and flooring were delivered, etc, etc etc. Yippee!

New Sconces!

These sconces are for the front door. After the Scottsdale Art Factory fiasco, I changed to another style completely.

Main Floor Video Walkthrough

Walk through the main level of the house!

Drywall - A BIG Change

The house now has most of the drywall up which really changes everything about the feel of the house. No more looking from one side to the other to see it...now you actually have to walk into other rooms!

Bob Newman started our kitchen cabinets last week. By Wednesday he had about six base cabinet boxes built. This kitchen is really going to be different and exciting to me. We did make a few changes (like ditching the white fireclay farm sink) because I feel like we are getting too many elements happening in the kitchen. We're now going with a stainless farm sink with customization by C & J Metals.

Blast from DCL Past featuring Brent Chaney & David!

This picture is of David and his lake neighbor Brent Chaney taken about 1980. They are both barefooting behind Coy Chaney's big Invader on Deep Creek Lake. The Chaneys still have a boat on Deep Creek and we enjoy getting together with Brent and his family each summer.

Finished Fireplaces

Both fireplaces are now finished and the sandstone hearths have been installed. They turned out really nicely. Next they will be installing the insulation.

The little cottage that started it all...

I just came across these pictures of the old cottage so I thought I'd post them while we wait for some developments with the new place. The little cottage was cute but so little! I am so looking forward to staying at the new house and we are making plans for many long weekends throughout the year.

The winning light fixture!

More Lighting

I finally ordered the chandelier from Jim at Markland Forge. He made some pinecone prototypes with individual cone pieces instead of the solid cones in the picture and I think it is going to work out well. Jim is great to deal with and I can't wait to see how this fixture turns out.

I purchased two of these Hammerton sconces for inside the house.

Snowy November!

It's freezing!!!

Today we drove down to visit the house. It was 18 degrees in the afternoon at Deep Creek Lake! New things in the house include almost all of the wiring has been completed, the stone on the downstairs fireplace is up, and the new door for the laundry room has been delivered. My endless quest for the perfect chandelier is coming to a close as I have finally found the perfect fixture, a pinecone and branch chandelier made by Hammerton. This fixture is super expensive but I have found a blacksmith forge in Temecula, California that makes a really similar light. I'm going to order one of these soon...

Hammerton

Markland Forge

Foundation Finished!

After a shaky few days when we discovered that the stone corners had been forgotten, the stone on the foundation is now finished and it looks fabulous! We used Eldorado Stone in Orchard Cypress Ridge and we are really pleased with it. The coloring worked out really well with the stain on the logs. As always, the guys at Yellowstone Log Homes were great and had the stone corners fixed properly and quickly.

We also met with the electrician and walked through the whole plan with him. We met with the cabinet maker and are trying to decide what wood to go with in the kitchen. What do you think of cherry frames with spalted maple panel uppers?:

Lighting

These are the light fixtures for the lower exterior.