There was a ton done last week. They finished the insulation under the bridge and canopies, most of the roofing was completed, work continued on the decorative cedar ceiling, they started framing the screened porch, they started the delicate work of fabricating the dining canopy lattice, and an amazing amount of trim work got done.
Mark has moved from steps to dining canopy and has notched the slats for horizontal supports, predrilled for the support rod, and fabricated an electrical chase to acommodate wiring for the canopy's 3 light fixtures and track in anticipation of assembly today. The canopy is critical as it drives the location of vertical members of the ceiling in the kitchen.
Update--Mark came in today to assemble the canopy and it looks fantastic!
Above is a view from the peek-through passage in the master bedroom.The extensions on the south side of the canopy will stagger the interface to the main kitchen ceiling so we won't have a butt connection.
As part of our "value engineering" on the millwork we converted a number of custom millwork pieces into adapted pieces from IKEA. One of these is next to the laundry room. It is (surprise) not a rectilinier cavity and so we wanted to place the IKEA stock cabinet in there at an angle parallel to the wall and then fill in the gaps with pie slice shelves. Scott was working on this and the custom base trim on Friday and it looks really great. By a wierd quirk of fate and bad packaging on IKEA's part, we had 3 extra groovy blue plastic and aluminum doors as IKEA had to ship them three times to get enough undamaged ones (all had dented aluminum strips). We decided to make our shelves out of these damaged doors and have a super custom IKEA installation complete with aluminum edge trim.
Scott also finished up the trim, 3 sliding doors, and fixed panel (to be painted super high gloss white) on the laundry and he put the saloon hinge and panel on the cat door.
The closer you get to the edge, the better the view.
--David Napp
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