I can see CEDAR now.

From the very beginning of the project I knew I wanted Red Cedar on our house and it has been quite a journey working out the sourcing, finishing, profile selection, application techniques, etc. but finally the day has arrived.  Our cedar was prefinished in Greensboro and broght to the site last week.

 

We are using vertical grain clear Western Red Cedar on the entire bridge volume, the soffits for the two stucco pods, on the underside of the bridge on both interior and exterior runs, and to fabricate the dining canopy. We prevailed on Leon to use blind nailing to apply the siding and he even found some nails with colored nail heads.  Dwayne, Steve, and Joe started with the high soffits on the west side of the guest pod and it looks absolutely stunning.

For these soffits we are using a "V" joint profile while on the vertical siding we are using a "fineline" profile which has a very fine reveal.  On the siding we are also using a home slicker product  which allows for drainage behind the siding but makes for a challening installation to keep everything flat.

Here they are working on the North side of the master bedroom above the screened porch.  Myron helps Steve rip a piece of siding to make the NW corner.

I don't know the time table on the installation of the decorative cedar ceiling under the bridge but there has been some serious head scratching going on trying to figure out what is parallel to what and how they are going to get the vertical ribs on the cedar in the kitchen to line up perfectly to form the canopy over the dining table while navigating the light fixture trim rings in the kitchen ceiling.  Leon really has been sweating the details on the light fixture integration into the canopy as well.  He had Dwayne carve out a hole in the studs adjacent to where the canopy emerges so the the electical box for the low voltage lighting track that is on the side of the canopy could be installed with no visible wiring.  Kevin with P&L installed the box yesterday.

As of yesterday we have had 2250 visitors to the blog. There certainly seems to be loyal readership on the jobsite as everyone asks me about it.  Thanks to everyone for going along for the ride.

Frank