here is all the info for you gawkers out there

the kit and design are from noble home...
http://www.noble-home.net/
you can go to their site and learn all about the materials used to build this.

if you want the best builder on the cape, hire ryan weber.
r.m. weber contracting (based in eastham) 508.237.9703

if you want to know who NOT to use, just ask me about my ICF foundation.

the other links to the right are my painting, which is my work, and various links related to this structure.

skunk fur

the color of the trim paint is called Raccoon Fur by ben moore, it's a low luster exterior paint. the boys call it skunk fur. now i call it skunk fur. i love skunk fur.

mildly relevant

THE coolest stuff EVER...
don't click this link unless you are prepared to buy me something from this shop

oh yeah.

we started out the week with ryan having the black death, along with half of cape cod. mid-week we cursed the hell out of the crystal door company. we end the week with the sliders in, as well as the remaining windows. booya!

the sliders

are a bitch.

i got sanchez on board with the industrial look exposed conduit though. phew.

lots of posts today

here are the windows from both inside and outside!!!

the wall going to the studio...
and the windows in my bedroom...

update!

my boys are brilliant. they figured out a way to get the windows all set and then just replace them before inspection.

more blackberry tarts for my crew!

well, more than a little

so noah said...
Unfortunately, the windows will take a few weeks - they are made to order and apparently they can't rush them any faster - sorry. The order will go in first thing tomorrow for two tempered units of the 2929's (the larger units). Please keep the ones you have wrapped and I'll get them some day.
I'd be happy to talk with Ryan about how to keep things moving along, even if I have to talk with the inspector - I ain't scared.

ok. in the meantime, i want to share a little thing i have discovered is very satisfying. i have a bookmark folder called 'house' in my web browser. it contains all the items i have seen over the past year spent window shopping online and want to get for the house, such as appliances. well, every time i buy one of those things, like a kitchen faucet or a fridge, i delete the bookmark. now instead of having a GIANT list, there are only a few minor decorative links left. that is satisfying.

..except for a washer/dryer, a stackable front loading washer and dryer. i keep hoping some random family member will decide a washer /dryer will be the perfect house warming gift since it is the only essential i need, and haven't bought yet. hint

windows setting us back a little

waiting on pella windows that are tempered for near the floor level. this is a bummer. the boys are trying to work around it as best they can.

stuff

so, i have a front door!


but two of the windows aren't right and need to be ordered, hope that doesn't take long.
i have a few pics of copper piping and some other stuff i plan on making different stuff out of.
and down the hill...

i'm covered in raccoon fur

that's the name of this paint color that will be the roof trim and frieze board. love that name.

and a pic of da rooof.

before the rain today...

roof panels

it's the ceiling, not the roof

technically

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i was standing in front of the house the other day, just after jimmy finished backfilling, with my friend rebecca. as rebecca and i chatted, i glanced down and poof, saw this and took it as a sign.


(jimmy, thank you for being there for me and thank you for not running it over with the machines... and by 'it' i mean the clover, not the house... but don't run that over either)