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

Monday, February 20, 2012

The ceiling's the limit

Work began today on the ceiling at Maple Tree. Tim and I started installing the 1" x 6" pine tongue and groove ceiling boards. Because of the high ceiling in the living room we had to use scaffolding. Fortunately, Tim has the right equipment for the job.
Photo by Darlene Zotter

Over the past few months, I've been asked if I ever do anything to help with the build of our cabin. Today's photo clearly shows me on the scaffold with Tim working my butt off.

Darlene was here this weekend and we had a great visit. I enjoyed some superb meals not to mention her wonderful company. I sure do miss her and her cooking!

We'll be back at it tomorrow as we are nearing the ridge of the ceiling. We'll be adding some trim around the skylights and some poplar trim around the fan box on the ceiling while we can easily reach it with the scaffold.

More coming,
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