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, April 9, 2012

Twig railing

After getting the tree installed on the second floor it was time to start the railing. You'll remember the post about the rhododendron twigs that I harvested a few weeks back. Well today I started installing the rails and then adding the rhododendron twigs to the railing.



 The photo to the right shows the top and bottom rail installed and connected to the tree.









It took about 4 hours to install what you see to the left. Code requires that a 4" sphere NOT be able to pass through any given area and this first section meets that requirement.

Now only 4 more sections to go...

More coming,
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