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

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Getting toasty

I worked on more walls today AND set up the fireplace for the first fire. Our fireplace is a high efficiency wood burning fireplace. You load wood in, set the air control for how fast the fire burns and sit back and enjoy. It has an automatic fan that comes on and sends out 'firebox' heat that is normally sent up the chimney. The power isn't turned on yet so that feature will get tested when we throw the switch.

It burned for several hours on scrap wood and I felt like the temperature in the cabin went up. It definitely was warmer after a few hours.

I installed the walnut mantle also. It's 2" thick and has a beautiful grain pattern. The 'show' edge was left natural and has some interesting character as well.

We'll put the finish on when we start painting the interior.

Tomorrow I'll be back to installing more wall pine and picking up some more poplar siding for cabinet faces. I got a good deal on the remainder of some poplar siding that will make great looking cabinet door faces.

Still have to harvest our wainscoting from an old barn nearby. The owner sold me some wood and I need to pick it up. I'll save that for Darlene's visit this weekend.

More coming,
z

p.s. we passed our insulation inspection today...
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