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, April 26, 2012

Twiggy

Today was spent working on the twigs for the stair rails. Each piece has to be fitted, mortised and set into position before the next piece can be added.

The twigs are still green and can be bent to some degree to aid in placement. I suspect that, once dry, they will not be going anywhere in our lifetime.



The photo to the right shows about 3 hours of work. We priced these twig rails and now I know why they cost so much.



I started on the next section up but did not take a photo. Tomorrow I'll keep going up the stairs. I have 3 more sections to make. I should be done with it by early next week.

The boss is coming this weekend so I have to look like I've been busy :^)


More coming,
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