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

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Bark and trim

Today was one of those gorgeous days in the mountains. Absolutely deep blue sky but on the cool side...beats rain any day!

The top inside of the viewing porch is almost complete except for a few pieces of poplar siding. We ordered and used 100 sq.ft in three locations on the cabin and came up short BUT a stroke of good luck found us the pieces we need at our local lumber yard. They had some left over from another customer order. Now those missing pieces will be filled in tomorrow.

Today the guys continued to install exterior trim around the windows, corner boards, etc. Tomorrow they'll start the battens that add the finishing touch to our 'board and batten' look.

We have one more side of soffit to finish and the exterior is pretty much complete and ready for inspection. Speaking of inspection, we've scheduled our framing and hvac inspection for this Friday. The plumber has been notified to start the rough in plumbing. Probably next week is my guess.


I mentioned, in a previous post, that the underside of our walkway and viewing porch will show the slats and tin to resemble a barn interior. This photo gives you a better feel for the look. Remember, painting of all the exterior wood will be completed early spring once the temperatures moderate.

More coming,
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