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, January 7, 2012

Gloomy but busy

More going on today...the last of the walkway and front porch rafters were installed. The photo to the right shows what is really the front door and porch area. We plan on extending the front porch tin out a bit (you can see from the little jut out). The front door is being designed, as we speak, because it's 42" wide, not your normal 36" width. I'm researching sources for cherry, oak and walnut that will be used in the construction of the front door.


I got a chance to install the cross member for the front drive post today. The little fork to the left will have a 4" drop chain with a hanging light. That will be installed after we complete our final inspections.

Our neighbors from across the street dropped by today. I gave them the 'cook's tour'. Needless to say, they loved the cabin. Actually, they looked from our living room and said, "our cabin looks tiny from here". 

The view to the right is of the view side of the cabin. The guys will be installing the viewing porch rafters Monday and starting the tin installation. If you visit, you'll be able to sit out on the viewing porch, with wine in hand, and feast upon the mountains of NC and listen to all the stories about the wonderful mountain folk we've met!

We're just moving around the cabin to show the walkway porch that wraps the cabin...don't want to get wet when it rains!!!


Here's a view from the garage side showing the wrap around walkway covered porch.

We're getting close to finishing the exterior...another major milestone.

More coming,
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