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

Friday, October 14, 2011

First blocks of the foundation

Today started out a bit rainy but has ended up very windy and cool. We had a load of block, sand and mortar mix delivered this morning for our long awaited foundation. Tim (in the trench) and James are laying the block. What you're seeing is the first course of block going down. Tim and James will also help with setting the SIPS later this month.

They project completion of the foundation by next week. Hopefully we'll have good weather for awhile and can meet our deadline of early November for dry-in.

Our neighbors, from Miami, are here and have been very kind to let us use their water for mixing mortar. 

Laney, the 911 Address Coordinator for the county came out and marked the cabin and workshop on official GPS. We'll be assigned an address on Monday and the tax department will be notified that we have added to our property. I guess our taxes will go down...

The power company has the order to turn on the juice. I didn't see them today but Monday was the next day for schedule.

I heard from a man in Zionville, NC who has locust posts with bark and other fancy woods. I'm going to take a drive there in the morning to check it out. The locust posts are for our wrap around porch.

Maurice will be back next week to dig for the septic tank and drain field. Then it will be inspected and we're done with the Health Department.

more coming,
z

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