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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Wow!! Love it!! Can't wait to see how the inside blends with the outside. Love the use of timber so close to its natural forms. So nice to see someone turning their fantasy dream home into reality.
Only one suggestion: if multi-level, be warned that you may one day not be able to safely go up and/or down on your own so at least think ahead for how you will be able to handle that. Maybe pick out where you plan to put a freight elevator when that day comes?
@Heartlander No need for a freight elevator. Been though 11 major surgeries from my career and seeing a surgeon tomorrow about nerve and tendon damage from the military in my right foot. But I remain 100% pain medication free exercise at least two to 6 hours a day. I thought it out well and have all that I used or need on the ground floor. I will pay some Amish girls around where I live to clean the house when and if I can't, so I have thought it out well.
@Heartlander :) also an army of family members who are polio survivors, artificial hips and knees, and wheelchair-bound old-old people. For all of the above, the freight elevator is the best overkill.
@WillaKissing Smart .... I'm not an architect but I paid the tuition for one, so that entitled me to ask. My father in-law who was, loved to point to this leaky roof and water stained ceiling and say: "and the shoemaker's children go barefooted."
Another favorite saying was to "never buy a house built by an architect for himself."
@Heartlander Hey, wait my father was a shoemaker that immigrated to the US in 1957 at the age of 20. His shoemaking business went under with tennis shoes in the early 1960's, but my mother's father got him a job on the railroad shoveling coal into the steam engines (called a fireman on the engine) and worked his way up to become a railway engineer driving the train.
@WillaKissing One of my old best friends likewise worked himself up on the Rock Island line. Another good friend's father spent his life as a porter on a Pullman. Great railroad stories.
@Heartlander Yes, they are. During WW2 the US government would not allow my grandfather (Mother's father) to leave the railroad as a conductor on the trains to enlist in the military. The Conductor was the one responsible for the entire train passengers and freight and getting it to its destination on time. After WW2 he became the first NTSB man to investigate train and airplanes crashed both. When he went to the Pennsylvania railyard in Columbus, Ohio later to become Conrail and now Norfolk and Southern and said my son in law need s job. The yard master said send him to me tomorrow morning and he will be put to work. Great stories, and in 1989 when I was in South Korea on the DMZ my father by coincidence only on my father's 50th birthday he drove the Presidents train through Ohio.
@WillaKissing My friend with Rock Island had worked his way to conductor just before they folded. And likewise had spent years as an engineer. Our porter's daughter friend was one of of the benefactors of what I understood to be a massive settlement of a class action lawsuit seeking a payoff for porters having to live on the train without pay. Imagine flight attendants having to live on the plane between flights?
I recall the train political campaigns. They took the whole campaign with them, even the bands. I believe Steve Goodman's memoir "Facing the Music" had a bit about being on a train campaign with Edmond Musky .
