okie boarder's house

Duane in Indy wrote: Sand blast the boards for a weathered barn wood effect.

Just plain ol sandblasting?

8122pbrainard wrote: Andy, A full overlay is where the door is almost the same size as the cabinet typical of a less expensive box cabinet. A partial overlay is used on face frame cabinets where you see a portion of the face frame. IE: If you have 1&1/2" stiles and rails on the face frame and the doors/drawer faces are a 1/2" overlay, you will see 1" of the face frame.

Ah, OK. I like more of an overlay, but not 100% sure what we'll do.

Andy,
Here's a partial overlay door on a face frame cabinet.

8122pbrainard wrote: Okie Boarder wrote: Duane in Indy wrote: Sand blast the boards for a weathered barn wood effect. Just plain ol sandblasting? Andy, Sandblasting wood removes the softer summer wood and leaves the harder winter wood proud. Depending on what wood your contractor is going to use, the effect can be different. From your pictures of the wash stain you've experimented with, it looks like a "sugar" pine? Do some experimenting if you think sandblasting is a way you may want to go. There are other distressing techniques. EDIT: As Duane mentioned, think of the weathered barn wood look with sandblasting.

Hmmm, might have to try this. The plan right now is pine and we're going to just cut it out of standard lumber. The thought was we would paint it white, but now with this experimenting, we're thinking of doing the faux barnwood look. We may go ahead and stick with pine...we like how it looks.

Andy
You should consider low voltage lights in the toe kick space. Looks great gives the custom look

Will do...thanks for the suggestions all.

8122pbrainard wrote: 8122pbrainard wrote: I noticed Duane mentions stone for counter top. Besides the higher cost, keep in mind it's porous so it can be a microbial breeding ground and is a PITA to maintain. Consider a solid surface. Duane in Indy wrote: Granite??? Pete, maybe you misread my post. Granite is the best top you can buy. IMO Duane, I've been neglect in my duty to back up my opinion with fact. Here's a link to an article by the solid surface association with links to scientific studies. Link to article on bacterial growth in counter tops. How's that bacterial laboratory you have in your kitchen working out?

Actually Pete I am the one that has been neglect. Certainly don't want you to ever think that I take your wisdom lightly That is why we now prepare all of our meals on our 100 yr. old maple meat block. That microbial stuff is scary. Sure appreciate you correcting my negligence in researching my materials. We can all sleep better knowing we are doing things healthier. Thanks again, Duane

Okie Boarder wrote: Siding is progressing, among other odds and ends. We managed to get the garage insulation done this weekend and this next week, hopefully exterior doors go in and patios get poured. Once the patios are done, brick can be installed.

What are the dimensions for the garage?

Brick has been started and hopefully exterior doors go on this week. It took a while for the front and rear entry doors to come in, but they're here now. The weather doesn't look like it is going to cooperate much this week, but hopefully some good progress can still be made.

They got the brick done, after having to wait for one last delivery of brick that was out of stock. Now the focus is on finishing a few interior items, and sheet rock as far as the inside is concerned. The exterior is being trimmed out and prepped for paint. We're liking the way the trim looks and anxious to see it painted. We decided to do board and batten around the whole house at 2' centers. We also decided to trim out the transition from the shake shingle look in the gables and the board and batten siding.

Yeah roof lines in NE are steep and with as few valleys as possible. Whoever designed my roof must not have been from snow country. I've had to install flashing that was never installed from the get go.

Okie Boarder--tell us about your storm shelter?

Sheet rock is underway. It's fun to see the spacial feeling in the house change as the walls are closed up.

Tape, mud and texture is done. We're about to be really busy as we go into this finishing stage.

We've been making some good progress since the last post and hit a major milestone completion this weekend. We have the kitchen cabinets about 90% complete, with just a bit more work from our contractor this week. He built all the bulkheads with some of his guys, which now includes our older son for the summer. We, then, took over and tackled the rest of the cabinet build, completing the "trim out" (all face frames and trim). Over this long weekend, we were able to get everything done except the corner cabinets, which our contractor wanted to handle. We should be able to get everything prepped for paint this week and hopefully have them painted by the end of the week or next weekend. The coolest part of this is both our boys were able to be shown certain tasks and then pretty much work on their own. That was a very proud parent moment and really helped us move along at a good pace.

Several rooms, including the pantry, are all built with shelving, etc and painted now, as well. Next on the list is finishing the bathrooms.

Looking great!