Sureshot, email sent.

Sureshot, late to this thread but you are doing a superb build , the floor is very interesting.

What type of hardwood is the floor? Congratulations on your build , you are one talented young man.

Thanks for the photos and info, good luck to you in your home! MG

Wow...now clue as to how I missed this thread for so long.

That is a beautiful home you are building. My wife and I are just starting to entertain the idea of the possibility of building a house.

It is a bit overwhelming to say the least.

You however are doing a phenomenal job it looks great.

Len

After reading the mortgage thread I had to go see the house......

Broke a bone in my hand yesterday so I should have time to stop and upload some photos. Wanted to make sure it didn't get auto locked

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Originally posted by sureshot45:
Broke a bone in my hand yesterday so I should have time to stop and upload some photos. Wanted to make sure it didn't get auto locked

Sorry to hear about your hand. Hopefully you have a quick recovery.

Any chance you can upload a pic of the fluorescents in the kitchen? I am curious to how you finished them.

Looks like i missed a few questions.

midwest guy, they are oak boards like those that you find in the beds of tractor trailer and big box trucks. I picked then up used (for free) and sanded them down, stained and polyurethaned them.

Dar185, I decided to try a cheaper way out on the light covers and made wood frames and covered them with Rice paper. They hinge which makes it easy to open and change the bubs when the time arises but I didn't fully think them out and will eventually do something different.


A picture of the finished kitchen






Finished side porch. There are a still a few handrails that need to be painted and installed on the back of the house.



Pantry door, made from rough sawed lumber that I have had drying for a couple of years.



Guest bedroom door, you can see the light covers in the top right.


Master bedroom door, my plan had always been for dark floors and white walls with all the color coming from objects and doors. I'm extremely pleased with how it has worked thus far.


Now for what most of my time lately (aside from the 2 jobs) has been spent on. My beautiful wife left a good job back in the summer to move here to be with me and start our life together. I was hoping to have her pottery studio built months ago but she has been patient with the delays even though she is dying to start creating work again.





















This broken hand is going to keep me slowed down for at least 6 weeks, which might means I'll have to let other people do more than I normally would. I have been told that isn't a bad thing.

I love this thread!

Do you have a plan to capture and reuse the water run off from the flat roofs?

What hard landscape do you plan out the back to connect the two buildings?

The idea has been thought of to collect the water for use in a garden but no way to put a time frame on when i could do it.

Landscaping will have to be done in stages as well. Looking at the last picture where the tahoe is you can pull forward and turn left between the house and studio. There will be a small porch on the studio but the idea is to be able to pull through and then back up to the hill ( with the car parallel to the studio) to unload stuff at truck bed height. Eventually the area behind the studio will be cut out and leveled so that you can roll carts and stuff out of the 8' door on the studio to an area with kilns and what not, With that area all being at the tailgate height from the lower area.

Hopefully that made sense

Simply amazing Sureshot!

You sir, are a craftsman! Nice job!

A) this is certainly an HGTV extreme home.
B) if sureshot is awarded a CUT, it should be "Man of Steel" for all the metal work in these buildings.

Beautiful home you built for an amazing wife!

Quick bump to keep it alive.

Studio is a 90%, enough so that she is moving into it this week. Move pictures are on the way.

Thank you very much for all the kind comments.

I am always looking forward to updates from your home. I really appreciate you allowing us a peek inside through all the hard work. Beautiful home.

How'd the new house do in our recent cold snap?

It did alright but not great. I never got around to insulating the p traps under the house ( from the showers) so they froze but didn't bust, they are heat traced now. Also with over half of the outside walls bent just the panels I found a number of them that had drafts so I've been doing a little caulking.

That and the only heat in the house is the heat pump on the mini split so the electric bill was the highest it's ever been last month at $120. The average has been about $70 with the previous high being $100 last January. Once I find the rest of the drafts I should be able to cut the overall electric bill by 10-20%, I hope.

One of my favorite threads, that house is awesome.

Finally got around to "underpinning" the house so that hopefully I can get a better insurance policy. Pictures are not the best, it was cold and they were to send to the insurance company.







I will try to get some pictures of the studio to post up this week.

Looking good, thanks for the update.

I sat for an hour - in awe. Beautiful! This needs to go up the list!

Hope the hand is coming along well.