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In the fine tradition of the run on sentence I offer the run on blog--I am so woefully behind on updating the blog that I just need to do a quick and dirty summary as the progress is amazing and I am unlikely to ever catch up and it doesn't seem to be stressful enough to have not sold our current house and be one week away from final punch on our new house that they had to throw in a global financial MELTDOWN in the mix so we should just forget about all that and let you know that the carport is now done and looking great and that there is a storage area at the back with 4 sliding doors which will be painted bright orange to give us a punch of color and all of the wood work will be painted Cedar Bark color and that we had another low voltage wireathon a few weekends ago and Julian, Cici, Erik, Scott, and I did final wiring for security, cable TV, telephone, speakers, and Lutron low voltage wiring and we installed this new wizbang audio control from Niles Audio that mimicks the full screen of an Apple iPod in every room and is quite a leap from my 14 year old Sony Receiver and it was great to hear music careening down the halls of the gallery
while Myron and Robert were installing the outdoor shower.......................
and in case you are worried about birthday suit exposure we have been meeting with artist Al Frega and he has nearly completed our shower shroud and speaking of beautiful metal objects our friends at Fireplace Editions installed our Rais Pina wood stove and we concealed its turnstile under the tree grate so we can swivel it toward the living or dining area and I have to give a shout out to Anna Wirth for coming up with that idea and to the fabulous team at FE for executing it so beautifully
but before we go much further we should talk about the amazingly beautiful floors
courtesy of Bill Campbell and Select Forest Products in Chapel Hill where we have Pennsylvania Cherry on the upper level and Ash on the lower level and on the softer side,Ricky Creech (the floors not Ricky) of Frazee Carpet in Durham did a magnificent job on our Expanko XCR4 composite cork/rubber flooring in the basement
and on the Bolyu carpet in our bedrooms (big thanks to Dianne Bostrom for her help on finding these products) while the millwork boys were finishing up our
cutom cabinetry including this amazing cherry slatted HVAC grill in our main entry,
the bookshelves in the library,
the flatfile cabinet in the project gallery,
and the frig surround in the main pod while in the next room Robert #1 installed our
super water efficient dual flush Toto toilets and Frank's pride and joy Agape Spoon tub and
Robert #2 installed the beautiful custom cut Rex Ceramiche (from Best Tile in Raleigh) elongated mosaic tile backsplash in the lower bath
and our friends at ClearVue Glass put in the frameless shower surrounds throughout the house
and last but not least on the outside of the house Joe, Dwayne and Steve have wrapped up the project installing the ipe rail cap on our cable rail system on all of the decks.
We will really miss these guys. They built the bulk of our house and it is extraordinarily beautiful.
I can't do the progress in this last stage justice by this summary but I hope you can get a glimpse of how far we have come in the last few weeks. Please stay tuned as I cover the final punch out phase of the project!
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