When we started, we had extension cords from the old cabin. The power lines that had been trenched from the yard pole to the cabin site had not been touched. None of us knew at the beginning of the day what we would have at the end of the day.
Hopefully these pictures will help you see what we did.
Glen brought everything we needed for electrical rough-in. Chris and Matt brought all we needed for the low voltage stuff.
Just a picture of the shed roof. We plan to have an entry that would be about 8' X 12'.
Here's the south end of the cabin and a door which would lead to the 10' X 32' future deck.
This is the east side. The Tyvek covers the large window in the area above the kitchen. The OSB board on the lower left covers the area where the patio door will be. This has been left out so we can use sissor lifts for insulation and sheetrock.
This is the South end of the cabin. These windows really let in a lot of sun.
We are just getting started. Here you are looking through the kitchen into the mudroom. To the left of the mudroom is the full bath. On the back side of the mud room is a 3/4 bath.
This is the lower level and the bedroom on the northwest corner of the cabin. You can see here we have started pounding boxes in. Glen did a great job giving all of us jobs pounding boxes, pulling wires, etc.
This is the lower level west bedroom which is next to the stairs.
This is lower level northeast bedroom.
This is lower level northeast bedroom looking south into the mudroom.
As you walk into the cabin from the west, the stairs go up to the loft.
This the loft area called the "Tree Stand". The leftmost 2x4 is the area and you can see the size of the window that's yet to be installed (it came cracked and has recently been replaced).
This is the loft area. When we were starting the rough-in process we realized we really need to define the rooms in the loft to allow us to provide proper wiring. These three 2X4's roughly show the two 3/4 baths we will have in the loft.
The loft area showing where we put temporary bottom plates to outline a bedroom in the northeast corner of the loft.
You can see the pile of sheetrock in the loft area. They do this when it's easy to forklift it up to the loft. Behind this pile will be another bedroom in the northwest which will be a mirror image of the one in the northeast corner. There will be a hallway which will go between the bedrooms and out onto the deck.
This is an area next to the stairs. We decided to build a 48" stub wall and will leave this area open. The stub wall will allow us to have electrical hookups should we decide at a later date to convert this to a bedroom.
This is starting to show the wiring. We will have fan/light combinations in all the bedrooms. Each bedroom will also have electric baseboard heat in addition to radiant floor heat. Each bedroom has double hung windows along with electrical service to a room air conditioner. We also wired smoke detectors for each bedroom. These smoke detectors are interconnected so if one goes off they all go off. Additionally, we will have CO detectors in the hallways in the bedroom areas. Here you can see that Glen hooked the power up to the meter box on the yard pole and viola! we have some lights.
More lights
More lights. Not a lot of the breakers are in; I think just enough to allow us to have the inspection.
Here's the mudroom. You can also see the white low voltage panel on the right.
So if you look at the picture below we have fast forwarded a week. We decided we should have our first meal in the cabin. We set up in the kitchen area and although we didn't have heat, limited furniture, and lights, we had a great time.
Kyla and Paige waiting for food.
Nick, Leah, and Benjamin
We cooked a "Kenneth Berg" turkey. Years ago Kenneth showed us how to do a turkey on the grill. We implanted a half dozen slivers of garlic into the meat. Rubbed the bird with peanut oil and finally covered it with season salt. Along with this we had tin foil potatoes and onions and corn. But we are not done, Tom Baker wrapped some of last year's tenderloin chunks with bacon and cooked them on the grill. It was really good!
Here you can see Juli cutting up the turkey and John dishing up his plate.
Do you remember our annual meeting when we gave the approval for the cabin and Peggy said we better hurry? I think she's happy with the progress we are making but I can almost hear her say, "but you are not done".
Nicole and Nathan dishing up.
Paige, Matt, Sarah, Kyla, and Leah
To think this started when Floyd told us there was an 80 for sale.
Jamie and Darin
Bacon wrapped venison tenderloins. Mickey, Tom, Tom Jr, and friend. (I'm sorry I don't remember his name).
Dick. Dick found the perfect guy to get the rough-in electrical stuff done. None of us imagined we would have completed all this work in one day! We had invited Tom Vig out for this meal but he worked all day and wasn't sure if he would be able to join us. He wasn't able to.
Jamie, Bob, Floyd, Nicole, Nathan, and Darin
Leah, Benjamin, Bob, Jamie, and Darin
The first supper.
Tom Jr, Tom, Floyd
So that's it. Lots of stuff left to do but lots of good work done already.
