Cabin

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Creative with what you have laying around


I have been pondering over the past few days about how the front of my "Tiny Home" was looking. I did not like how the windows were laid out nor the bottle window's placement by the door. So after some debate with myself I took the middle window and lower bottle window out and will re work that. I also took a beam I had in place out, which is fine as it was serving no purpose other than aesthetics. Once I did that seeing it opened up made me feel better. I did some more work on the garage door aka the back wall. The supports in place for that are out of an 60+ year old farmhouse that is no longer standing, I wanted to keep them looking rough and uneven so I used my planner and sanded them down so they were smooth and cleaned up. I managed to fined enough chip board around here to do the sub floor, that took a bit longer as I had to cut and fit pieces in place...I must admit again I missed the luxury of having nice large sheets to drop in place. Once I was done however I smiled knowing I cleaned up a bunch of loose wood here that could have ended up rotting away.
Plans for the front are more glass bottle blocks, a small window to the left of the door and up top another window. If you look close at the picture on the right you can see a fish tank, that has plans on being turned into a bay window! I need to find more wood to finish my trusses and then start getting some roofing materials together. Oh did I mention the pile of palettes I have to rip apart? Those will be turned into flooring if all goes well.
For those keeping track of canines helping today Jack, Lennon, Brody, Maggie, Chloe and Bernard were all out with me at different times of the day.

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