Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The Front of the House: Door and Decorative Roof Strip

Not a major workday, but small updates to report:
we forgot to seal the raw wood on the windows so we've masked off the glass and are painting those with a couple coats of BioShield Aqua Resin. Masking is a bit tedious, but it's getting done in the name of giving eternal life to the windows.

Here's what the front of the house looks like at the present time (picture taken one hour ago!):


Behold! The deadbolt was installed in the door. The porch light is visible in this image as well (thank you, Ace Hardware and compact fluorescent light bulb). We have yet to install the top of the door jamb but we'll get on that soon.
The diamond and octagon windows seem to look nice together -- a good thing as this was not really planned or drawn out in advance, it just happened. The two windows on the far right are for the bay window seating area. In the Tumbleweed plans it called for slightly larger windows which had a long lead time from the vendor we chose; these smaller windows were available sooner.
Great! We didn't get any tar paper on today after all but that is still in the cards for the proximate future.

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