24 Aug
On Thursday they applied the scratch coat for the stucco. Next step for the outside is the brown coat, however, the scratch coat takes several days to cure, so once that is done the brown coat goes on. After waiting several more days the finish coat, which has the color mixed in, goes on. On [...]
08 Apr
As promised, albeit a bit late, here are the renderings that Nathan and Gloria showed us last Friday.
This is a view of the living room looking back at the kitchen.
This is looking back at the stairway towards the bathroom.
We are still working through some of the material decisions, however, for the most part we [...]
07 Mar
Gloria and Nathan have been looking at an interior shear wall that would extend about six feet from the left wall as you are facing the back of the house. This wall would essentially cover the resin panel behind the stairs and destroy the floating feeling of the stairs. To address this they have proposed [...]
Our friend Dudley drew up a shadow line detail for us to try save some money by not using the Fry Reglet reveal.
Basically you put a 2×4 down while you hang the dry wall then pull it out paint the framing black and put in a standard [...]
I realize that I haven’t posted any pictures of what the house is actually going to look like. So here are some shots.A rendering of the house from the bottom of the lot. A rendering from the street level. And here is a sketch of the color scheme As you can see the house is [...]
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