Tag: Carpentry
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Loft Guardrail
Three and a half weeks ago I extolled Rosslyn’s perennially perfect poppies as a timely analgesic to the inconvenient-but-overdue termination of an habitually untimely, underperforming (I’m being generous!) subcontractor who had been charged with custom cabinetry, stairway railing, and loft guardrail. Here’s a snippety flashback. Let’s assume that “cocky pop” is the body double for…
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Drawers and Cabinet Doors
As we advance upon the finish line — sometimes hurtling, sometimes inchworming — each of us is exercising our agility, stretching our purviews, and adapting to the evolving needs of the icehouse rehabilitation project. And, with the interior almost complete, I tip my gratitude cap to Peter whose been fabricating drawers and cabinet doors on-site…
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Icehouse Stairway Update
Spoiler Alert: the icehouse stairway is not 100% complete. Yet. But it will be. Soon. I hope! There’s still an itty-bitty electrical wrapup (finishing up the riser lighting installation), but the main hurdle — one that’s been delayed again and again since winter — is the banister. Handrails and balusters. Everything’s been fabricated for a…
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Finishing Floor & Staircase
Finishing, not finished. Yet. But soon. I hope! The icehouse main floor and staircase are slinking slowly toward completion. Sashaying? No. Sauntering. Slowly sauntering. But at last I can say that we’re finishing the floor and the staircase in Rosslyn’s icehouse. We’ve been using Safecoat® Polyureseal BP to seal our hardwood floors for about twenty…
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When Apertures Become Windows
We’ve been finalizing a timely transition from porosity to fenestration in the icehouse rehab. Framed but temporarily concealed apertures have been cut out and transformed into doorways and windows. Jamb extensions, sills, and trims — carpentry confections that conjoin and integrate discrete elements into a cohesive architectural whole — are finally complete inside the icehouse.…
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High Up High Five
Supi and Matt, high up atop scaffold, stop to celebrate their progress. Or the view? High Five!
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Cabinetry in Icehouse Loft
For such a nanoscopic space, it’s a little uncanny how much complex finish carpentry and how much cabinetry have been part of this final stretch in the icehouse rehab. Actually… it’s precisely *BECAUSE* of the nanoscopic proportions that we’ve emphasized builtins and detailed finish work. And degree-by-degree we’re measuring progress toward completion. Even the cabinetry…
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Coving Complete
More good news this morning: the icehouse coving is complete! It looks so seamless, so simple now that the woodwork is joined, the discrete elements have coalesced, and the paint has dried. Integration. Cohesion. Hurrah! Only a few months ago, this vision — more mirage than meaningful map forward — danced in my imagination. It…
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Variable Width Flooring
I shared a “Flooring Sneak Peek” a couple weeks ago when the first two rows of ash and elm flooring had been installed. Now that our homegrown hardwood installation is advancing I’d like to share a few progress photos and explain the choice of variable width floorboards. Why Variable Width Flooring? You may recall that…
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Garapa Paneled Bathroom, Pt. 2
Just over a week ago I posted a prologue to today’s garapa paneled bathroom update. I apologize if it felt a little half baked. For just a little longer, I’ll keep you in suspense before I share photos of the now completed garapa installation. Remember, anticipation is half the pleasure! (Source: Garapa Paneled Bathroom, Pt.…
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Flooring Sneak Peek
It’s a little premature to start celebrating the soon-to-be-completed hardwood flooring in the icehouse. With only the first two rows installed (and a third in the works), a superstitious soul might delay an update in the interest of humility (or outwitting fate). But it’s been so many months in the planning and preparation that I’ve…
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East Door Installed
Rosslyn’s icehouse looks a little different this evening. The east entrance door was installed by Peter, subtly transforming the most visible elevation of the building and finally illuminating the entrance hallway with natural light after months in a “cloistered” work environment without any natural light. Although there remains some additional shimming and trimming (plus removing…