August is definitely here

It's hard to imagine, just a week or so ago we were having trouble sleeping at night due to the heat and humidity. The weather all this week has been perfect- low humidity, 70's during the day, and cooling right off at night. This coming weekend, it may be 'unseasonably cold'.... August is definitly here!

Loralee and I are starting to burn out, burning both ends of the candle at the same time. We've felt a but under the weather this week, but we are getting through it.

The tapers are nearly done, although they are about a day behind. The first layer did not dry as well as they had hoped, and that put them behind. It should still all be good to go for painting this weekend. Meanwhile, we have been keeping up with the siding, painting it as it goes up. This has made the job a lot easier to manage.

Since we'll be painting the interior next week, we've also been struggling with what colors to paint. One thought is to just do the whole thing in Navajo White, and deal with colors later. However, we want do have some color, and use it as a strong accent for some of the rooms. So far, we have decided to do the master bedroom in a sort of sage green, and do the sitting alcove in front of the Masonry Heater in a sort of rust color. We have a big question mark for the rest of the house though... I just don't have the vision for it, we can't tell anything from those little paint chip samples. We need colors that will compliment the natural woods- the yellow of the pine and red of the cherry. My concern is using colors that will 'wash out' those tones. That leaves us with a pretty limited pallette- Earth tones and greens. Blues are nice, but too cool for the house in general. Ah well, we'll continue to work on this; We have a few days left to decide. One thing, if anyone is interested, check out some of the other OSB houses in the Gallery on www.oldschoolbuilders.com to see what other's have done with interior colors. two houses, the 'Vermont Cape' and 'Modern Cape' both did some amazing things with different shades of green. They're worth a look!

The masonry heater is really coming along- We love the look of the used brick. Oh, one more thing: Note in the image at the top of the page the main entrance. We are really happy with the roofline over the doorway, that turned out really nice. I am pretty disappointed that the electric company made us put the meter right next to the doorway. We are going to box it in so it's not as obvius.