Exciting news: we went to look at flooring and discuss the sequence of projects with Daniel Millican who supplied our siding. We chose 5" red oak planks. Russ is going to do an oil and wax finish. It should be beautiful! That floor has to go in before we do the hearth and wood burning stove, we found. So we will pick up 19 bundles of flooring on December 5th.
After a restful night at the
Settlement at Monk's Cove (Carolyn's new favorite place) and a hearty breakfast, it was back to work on a rainy but not too cold Sunday. Fortunately, we were inside with lights and heaters on.
Carolyn started insulating around the windows. Wall is 2 x 6" studs so the windows will have to be built out on the inside to look good with our planned wall and trim (we are doing wavy board around the windows inside!) We are talking about pine plank wainscotting and chair rail, then dry wall above, painted an earthy sage green. And we have ivory beadboard ceiling we are about to put up. Won't that look good?
Meanwhile, Russ began installing the drop down stairs. We have a great shortage of storage space at Richmond Woods and a nice little attic space in this small cottage: 8 x 24' So it's plenty of room to put quite a few things away once we get the stairs in!
Above: Russ scoping it out from all angles. Below: He put up some support wood strips, set in the steps and temporarily screwed in on one side. Then lowered them part way to check the diagonals (to make sure they were square in the opening) and added shims til squareness achieved.
Finally he adjusted the length of the stair (had to cut off two steps) and put on the feet. It's very sturdy. Here's Carolyn, starting to put things away.
It was nice on this gloomy day (it actually was grayer than shown in this photo) to have on lights and heaters in the cabin, powered by Russ's large generator.
