building for our future

I admire folks who do excellent finish carpentry and Michael’s crew is da best. Jim and Keith got most of the first floor trim completed this week and Keith started upstairs today. As you can see from the pictures below, we chose to go with a double bead casing and a tall base with the same bead at the top. And that bead on the base flows continuously into the outside bead of the casings. This means a little more work to fit everything together, but the end result is outstanding. I’m extremely pleased with how this is working out. Once again, I’ll note that all the trim is being prepared here on-site. Outside of a few small yellow pine moldings that were provided by the stair folks to trim out the stairway, there is no stock millwork involved. It’s all custom.

The other major event of the week was moving all the cabinetry I have been building for many months from my shop to the addition and starting installation of the same. The cabinetry is my personal contribution to the project, both to provide some uniqueness and to help with the budget. Custom cabinetry like this goes for major money and given my serious woodworking avocation and shop facilities, it made perfect sense for me to do this work. I did leave installation of the base cabinets to the crew as they are experts in squeezing cabinets and stretching walls :-), but I installed the wet bar upper cabinets in the multi-purpose room as well as the linen cabinet and shelving unit in the master bath toilet room. (carrying the same into the building, however, I enlisted Jim and Keith)

This coming week, Michael’s crew will continue with the trim work upstairs, the painters will get started on the first floor and the stone folks will be in to template for the vanity counters and the wet bar top. I can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel. Almost...