May I first bring to your attention the beautiful front porch roof joists and decking… I mean – it is amazing, right? Well maybe amazing if you knew:
how many times I got on top of it,
each board was:
jointed to square one edge
ripped to make them a consistent width
routed to make the edges interesting
painted with two coats of primer and paint
Why is the porch ceiling blue? (From Gun & Garden magazine July 2015 issue), “So is the tradition of painting a porch ceiling blue. Some say the idea stems from the notion that blue porch ceilings prevented insects and birds from nesting. But more often than not, the color is attributed to the story surrounding the Gullah/Geechee shade known as “haint blue” and its influence on American design over the centuries.” Our shade of blue is Sherwin Williams “Morning Fog.”
how incredible it is that hubby got all of those joists perfectly positioned,
a hip roof (the part where the angles all come together in the above photo is one complicated piece of construction (and apparently one bathroom steam shower salesman in Spring Hill didn’t think we were capable after we had already done it, and judged us by looking at us when we walked in the store looking to purchase a couple thousand dollars of supplies for our steam shower – I won’t dog him on my blog, but let’s just say my tongue is an inch shorter because I did want to tell him, “yes, I not only know what a hip roof is, but I built one, which is more that you can probably say AND having a hip roof on your house has nothing to do with whether or not you can put in a “simple” square box shower that you are selling, (or not selling to us).”
the ends of those rafter tails are pretty amazing in the light and cast some amazing shadows, not to mention add to our craftsman theme
I caulked each one of those joints on the top, even though there will be felt and a metal roof on top… because, that’s just what you do when you are doing it for yourself
There was also a lot going on inside:
plumbing rough-in has begun,
running underground electricity to the house has started, (although the day after we dug the trench, it turned into a canal)
an interior bathroom wall was moved out 16 inches. (This is something you can do when your are building it yourself and not add hundreds of dollars to the cost.) However it’s a 20% increase on the size of the bathroom – which basically means our steam shower is 75% larger – WOW, that sounds awesome, right! Well it is awesome when you are going from a 3 foot by 3 foot shower to a 4 foot by 4 foot shower! Maybe not so awesome by some standards, but put some tape on the floor – stand in a 3×3 space, and then a 4×4 space… it probably will save you us a few elbow bruises.
Back in my October update I mentioned a few visitors to our humble dwelling, well now we’ve got dogs for days. We’ve got “white dog,”
“They” are really cute UNTIL they (“they” is only white dog) starts digging up hubby’s watermelons. So starting today – when the doggy train shows up, I walk them back home – no more treats for the digger and, unfortunately, his buddies cannot hang out either. Because, as soon as I plant “my stuff,” I am going to be a lot more passionate about white dog up to her shoulders in garden dirt! I cannot show the actual digging picture because there may or may not have been tears involved, but “white dog” was up to his shoulders in dirt. Lucky for me, I go by the “do not plant until after April 15th rule, so my plants are still trying to survive in their mini trays.
Now the really, really hard part… picking out tile, flooring, lighting… follow my boards on Pinterest, and comment, please.
P.S. So I have also been corrected that technically, a “tiny house” is 400 square feet or less, so since our “small house” is 600 square feet, I need to stop referring to it as a tiny house, (plus it is not on wheels). So from here on out – “tiny house” will be referred to as “small house.”
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