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, July 30, 2012

Plugging along

We continue to plug along. We completed all the painting that we can reach without a sky hook this past weekend. The cabin exterior is finished up to the wrap around porch and the sheep shed pictured has it's paint, trim and barn quilt.

The plumber is coming today to connect all of the sinks, toilets, tub, hot water heater, pressure tank and well. This gets us one step closer to getting our OK to 'officially' move in. The next step will be the electrician to finish all of his connections.

Once plumbing and electrical are out of the way, we have to have a fireproof drop ceiling added to the basement, gutters, finish the last of the deck railing, add some handrail inside and we should be ready to get our power turned on and water running. We both love camping but we're ready to have some form of normalcy in our lives again.Winning the NC Education lottery would speed up the process considerably...fingers crossed!

More coming,
D&z

p.s. for those wondering: the big D represents Darlene, the supervisor and the little z represents the worker bee!
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