Newest progression pics for those that follow my project. Wired up insulating and covering with actual boards. I hung antique rusty wagon wheels with boat anchors and antique chains to turn into chandeliers in the kitchen, dining, and Livingroom. Started make my own kitchen cabinets too to keep the rustic narrative going as well, I am looking at cabinet door designs and hardware presently for the doors to the cabinets I have built so far. Livingroom area.
Dining room area
Kitchen and dining rooms
Kitchen
Antique metal wheels I hung with boat anchors and chain for chandeliers over dining room and kitchen.
Over kitchen towards dining room
Smaller wheels over the living room for lights. You can see the stair railing in the background. Going into the woods today to harvest more poplar trees to finish up the railing upstairs.
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@akindheart Multi talented my lady. this is a 32-foot wide by 48 feet long house, so there is 1536 feet of living space on the first floor alone. A quarter of that will be my master suite. the second floor is a half loft with 768 feet being two bedrooms and a full bath with a sitting area as well. From the floor to the peak I have a 26 foot 6-inch height inside of the house. Standing on my catwalk looking at the bedroom and full bath and seating area on second floor.
@akindheart Started from the ground up built the trusses laying flat in two rows on the second floor, each truss was 2500 pounds apiece and I took a crane rental to set them in place in one day there are 14 total trusses which created the second floor for me. I have a full album of the process here viewable by all in my pics section sweetheart. pics of all phases of this.
@4meAndyou Well thank you very much, I believe so too and why I call it a dream home. All my relatives/ancestors before me built their own homes. Even my grandfather's and uncles (heck even my German grandfather in Germany after World War Two was over as a mason helped rebuild a country, so I call it a rite of passage as well.
@4meAndyou Thank you it is truly a full circle type deal. I always heard every time we walked in the ancestor's home the words hey your uncle or grandfather built this house and that house from Massachusetts to Louisiana to Indiana to Ohio to Tennessee to Florida. So, yes very well connecting to them. It is as if I can feel them mentoring me as I ponder what and how to do something next.
