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, March 3, 2012

Rhododendron and Cedar

I received a call recently from a guy in Laurel Springs that has a slew of Rhododendron bushes and wants to clear some of them out. We'll be using the branches / twigs to make the railing for the stair system. Basically, you take the twigs and interlock them to fill the space between the top rail and the bottom rail of the stair handles.

I loaded as much as I could safely transport. Once back at the cabin, I pruned all of the leaves off and set the branches aside for use later.

Today (Saturday) I spent the day prepping an unusual three topped cedar post for the bottom post to the stair system and also set several of the pine posts. The next step will be to fit the top and bottom rails between each post and then start adding the Rhododendron twigs as filler. The posts all get cut shorter after I'm happy that everything fits. I'll post some photos soon and it will make more sense.

More coming,
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