Just wanted to show some details of the inside before we slap up some insulation this week. This is the ceiling of the entry way that extends into the bathroom and the pantry. I cut most of it with a chainsaw and a template so that the notches would all fall into the same place. Jonathan was so romantic back in Marshfield when he told me the first thing we were going to do when we get to Alaska is... teach you how to use a chainsaw. Well he followed through. So half way across the floor, he says "you're going too slow, give me that chainsaw" and he cut a hole right through the spalt. I finished the rest of the floor. Dat da da da.
The hearth is still under construction. Most of the beaches around here have rough angular rocks but we found a beach that has these nice smooth round rocks. We hand picked each one. We still have to put up the back wall but we ran out of cement. We will get it the next time we go to town, about 1.5 hours away on mostly gravel roads. Please tell me you can see the flower pattern. We still have to put Coca Cola on it to get the cement "dusty glaze" off the top. Coke eats cement. Do you eat Coke?
The smaller room will be the computer room. That floor in there is the top side of the spalt ceiling I cut from the chainsaw. The bigger room is the bedroom. The wood stove pipe goes through the room, we hope that it will help with heating. The door in the bedroom goes out to a little deck that looks over the creek. It's really there so Jonathan can pee outside at night, old habit I guess. The bridge is made of two more spalts. The center pole was around 25 feet long. Jonathan found it floating in the cove. We stood it up by ourselves, in the snow, very tricky.
There will be some railings around the upstairs floor, and I am sure by the time anyone sees them they will be covered with laundry drying. We aren't sure if our plan for electricity (a pelton wheel, like a water wheel in the creek) will produce enough power for a dryer. It rains too much for a clothes line. Jonathan's family had a wall behind their wood stove on the floathouse that opened up and had rows of line for hanging clothes. Just one of the details we have to figure out. We'll cross that bridge when we get there, thank god we already built the bridge. For now we are off to put in the wiring, switches and plug-ins. Even though we are not sure how we will get power to run through those wires, it is good to have wires in your walls before you cover them up.
Just wanted to show some details of the inside before we slap up some insulation this week. This is the ceiling of the entry way that extends into the bathroom and the pantry. I cut most of it with a chainsaw and a template so that the notches would all fall into the same place. Jonathan was so romantic back in Marshfield when he told me the first thing we were going to do when we get to Alaska is... teach you how to use a chainsaw. Well he followed through. So half way across the floor, he says "you're going too slow, give me that chainsaw" and he cut a hole right through the spalt. I finished the rest of the floor. Dat da da da.
The hearth is still under construction. Most of the beaches around here have rough angular rocks but we found a beach that has these nice smooth round rocks. We hand picked each one. We still have to put up the back wall but we ran out of cement. We will get it the next time we go to town, about 1.5 hours away on mostly gravel roads. Please tell me you can see the flower pattern. We still have to put Coca Cola on it to get the cement "dusty glaze" off the top. Coke eats cement. Do you eat Coke?
The smaller room will be the computer room. That floor in there is the top side of the spalt ceiling I cut from the chainsaw. The bigger room is the bedroom. The wood stove pipe goes through the room, we hope that it will help with heating. The door in the bedroom goes out to a little deck that looks over the creek. It's really there so Jonathan can pee outside at night, old habit I guess. The bridge is made of two more spalts. The center pole was around 25 feet long. Jonathan found it floating in the cove. We stood it up by ourselves, in the snow, very tricky.
There will be some railings around the upstairs floor, and I am sure by the time anyone sees them they will be covered with laundry drying. We aren't sure if our plan for electricity (a pelton wheel, like a water wheel in the creek) will produce enough power for a dryer. It rains too much for a clothes line. Jonathan's family had a wall behind their wood stove on the floathouse that opened up and had rows of line for hanging clothes. Just one of the details we have to figure out. We'll cross that bridge when we get there, thank god we already built the bridge. For now we are off to put in the wiring, switches and plug-ins. Even though we are not sure how we will get power to run through those wires, it is good to have wires in your walls before you cover them up.
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Wow Megan, that looks awesome! Thanks for sharing your stories. I look forward to reading more and hope that everything goes well with the house.
im sleeping inside i dont care if its in a ball on the corner of your bed. im scared of nature at night. lauren
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