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

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Sheep Shed (aka Kent's workshop)

After a day of rain, the skies turned a beautiful Carolina blue and we started on the sheep shed. The design is taken from old barns that were used to house sheep and farm equipment. This sheep shed will actually be used as a workshop. The sheep shed is up the drive to the left.

The first project will be to build our cabin's front door. The door will be 42" wide which is somewhat wider than standard front doors (36"). We wanted a larger entry door for the look and feel as well as the functionality.

The next project will probably be the kitchen cabinets. I'm excited to build these because they will be custom built with several interesting elements. We plan on i including a dumb waiter from the garage level to the first floor level through the island. The knobs on the cabinets will be made from river stones. The countertops will be from 2" thick milled black walnut harvested from NC.

This view is through the window in the workshop. I'll be able to keep an eye on the mountains as well as have cross ventilation. I'll have more photos as the space develops. We did discover a great place for our future root cellar...under the workshop in the corner where 2 of the walls will be block with earthen back fill...perfect for keeping vegetables fresh.



This is KD our construction, attack, guard, rescue dog that's by my side every day. She's taking a break!!!

More coming,
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