Top of the Rock - Rockefeller Center

Isabel's Favorite Show

Manhattan from the top of the Empire State Building at night

NYC

Lower Manhattan taken from the Staten Island Ferry

The start of the deck!

I drove down on Saturday to take a look at what had been done this week. I wasn't expecting much since there has been so much rain but I was pleasantly surprised to find several new and exciting additions. The log work is almost done and the deck is framed in. There is a good amount of decking in place. Mike ordered the roof trusses this week and I am looking forward to getting the roof framed in so that I can really see what this house is going to look like!

At home we have been doing mock-ups of log walls for our stain selection. We have settled on Woodguard in a Colonial Cherry finish, which is a dark reddish brown. It should look great with the dark green windows and dark gray roof.

Not much new...

This weeks update has no pictures because the house doesn't really look any different! They backfilled the foundation, dug out the basement windows, and cleaned up the site. We did receive two more stain samples so that we can finalize the stain selection.

David on Sunday. Definitely his favorite activity.

Izzy on Sunday

Sam on Sunday

Kitchen and dining area.

The kitchen and laundry area.

Taken from the master bath looking across the front porch to the laundry/mud room.

Taller logs on the right side are the laundry/mud room. There is a door into this room from the front porch.

Up up and away!

The weather has been gorgeous at the lake this week and my meeting with Mike and Art went great. We now have everything resolved, new and final prints drawn up, and the logs are being stacked and drilled into place.

The logs that we're using are 12" logs that have been standing dead in Canada for ten years. This makes their moisture relatively low so that they won't shrink much after they are placed. The logs are a swedish cope style where each log has a channel scooped from the bottom where it lies on the log below. They are then glued between each course. Finally a long drill bit drills a hole for the thru-bolts that hold the logs together. All corners are notched corners.