Building our dream home in the NC mountains

It's almost mid August 2011 and the love of my life and I are getting ready to begin a year long adventure building our dream cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. We're actually in Oregon, as we speak (8/11/11) wrapping up a glorious 10 day vacation with my wife's sister and brother-in-law at their cabin in the mountains.

Why the title "The Maple Tree Adventure"? Our property is on Maple Tree Lane at an elevation of 4200'...sounds like an adventure to us.

We've talked about this for a long time and now that it's a reality, we are excited to start the process. The process should take about 10 months. The build should be completed by next fall 2012.

Our goal is to offer up a blog entry daily. Some posts might include a photo, others may not. The adventure takes my wife and me in different directions for awhile. She teaches school and will finish out her career in June 2012 in Raleigh. I, on the other hand, will head to the mountains to get the cabin rolling in the next week or so (8/16/11).

Keep us in your prayers, leave your comments and plan to visit us next spring 2013.

Kent & Darlene
210 Maple Tree Lane
West Jefferson, NC 28694

(828) 406-4823

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Smith's Milling Company

Lots going on. We received our septic and well permit today. The well company has been alerted that we're a go and the well drilling should happen soon.

I took the permits over to the building inspection department but they wanted a couple more bits of information before they issue the building permit. Should be in the next day or so. Engineer is verifying and sending a letter so all will be ready.

Cutters that mill the tongue for the flooring
I had a few hours this afternoon and headed to Roaring River, NC to meet with the Smith's at Smith's Milling Company. Very interesting and impressed with the skills of Danny Smith. He operates a 1950's milling machine run by a diesel engine that turns out some very nice work. I placed an order with him to mill our flooring, wall pine and ceiling pine.

Pine being fed into the milling machine
Danny gave me the cook's tour of his shop. It's amazing what he can produce from rough lumber. We talked a bit about making some beams for the kitchen area and some other spots in the cabin. I'm going to wait until all the interior wood is installed before tweaking it with beams but he'll get the business

He'll have everything ready for us to install mid-November. I'm looking forward to working with him on our cabin.

Still looking for fourteen 9' locust posts in the 6-8" diameter range...any suggestions?

More coming,
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