Pumpkin Ridge Post and Beam
Building on tradition.
Handcrafted post and beam, timber frame, and log homes.
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The ceilings are very
high, too high for ladders, so scaffolding was constructed.
So now the next step, run
the electrical wiring, sand the roof trusses and cross beams.
Even with
the scaffold ladders were necessary.
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Electrical wiring for
the ceiling fans and lighting go in next. |
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Insulation being
applied to the side walls.
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The scaffolding helps
reach the high places.
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The client wanted a
front entranceway that resembled the interior construction, and here
it is without the front door. |
The ceiling after insulation is finished
with real pretty tongue and groove spruce boards.
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A different view of the
ceiling. Notice the truss trim boards. |
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Another view of the
ceiling. The trusses really make a bold visual statement. |
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Here is a side view of
the ceiling. The truss trim boards are more clearly seen. |
Now that the ceiling is finished, it's
time to cut out the plywood and prepare for windows.
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Checking out the view! |
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Lower windows
installed, viewed from the bedroom. |
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Kitchen window prep.
The
ceiling is not finished yet in kitchen. |
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Here's the kitchen with
windows and ceiling installed. The kitchen will have ample room for
cooks and cookery. But there are no wall cabinets. The client
preferred windows to wall units, to create a clean bright kitchen,
with great views of the woods beyond. |
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The entranceway ceiling is
also spruce board. |
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Now it's time for a few interior
walls. This house has a large wall that separates the bedroom from the
living room, and then it's further divided with walls between the
bathroom and closet. Partial walls define the
entranceway. A wall in the mudroom encloses another bathroom and that's
it. |
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Here is a view from the kitchen
looking through to the living room. |
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Ralph and Earl took advantage of a
beautiful day in December to seal the windows on the back of the
house.
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Time to start the siding, pretty cedar was chosen for its beauty and low maintenance.
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Here is the southwest side, finished and looking good. |
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Siding, looking from the south side, the papered area is where the screened porch from the bedroom is going.
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Here is the mud room entranceway or eastside of the house..
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Here is what the northern exposure looks like with entranceway almost complete and front door in place. Two passing ballplayers checking it out, they approve.
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To enhance its appeal and also to blend with the overall theme of the structure, it was decided to finish the top portion of the sidewalls with overlapping cedar board, the board used for the siding. So this view details, the yellow pine roof trusses backed with spruce tongue and groove, continuing with the spruce to the top douglas fir horizontal timber, then the upper wall is finished with overlapping cedar. Beneath the lower beam will be traditional drywall. |
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This is the entranceway detail with spruce ceiling giving way to cedar upper walls, and then beneath will be drywall.
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Rather than use tongue and groove spruce for the upper wall detail, we didn't want the drywall guy to get up on a ladder, so we decided to trim it with the cedar board, same as the exterior siding. |
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Got carried away and used it around the house everywhere down to the drywall level. The house looks and smells terrific |
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We didn't need to but we decided to embellish the frame a bit. |
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Another look at the frame embellishment. |
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