Fryeburg Fair and friends

Check out our friends Megan and Dave's blog at http://19ridgeroad.blogspot.com/
Look under the 10/05/07 date and watch our day at the fayah!
Their house is beautiful.

Also wanted to mention that our friends Cindi and Nick Rathbone are moving to Brunswick, ME. She is due to have their baby in December and will live in the house that Nick has built. Check out their blog at http://www.balooboat.blogspot.com/

Fall foliage aerials

Our friend Megan Simone got a ride in a helicoptor from our friend Ned Sullivan and took a few aerial shots this fall. The colors were spectacular.

Roof and trim

Nothing like a 3 month hiatus from blogging. Sorry about that. It's a new year with new resolutions. Anyways this is Rob Duff, owner of Specialized Painting, applying the first coat of paint to the trim. Charlie, his dog, loved to bask in the sun on the roof. As you can tell the chimney top is on. The roof is on before the snow flies! Yea!!!!
We had the big piles of rock/dirt leveled. Below are mostly the remains of the rocks from the blasting.
More copper trim and valleys.
This is the family/great room getting lots of afternoon sun. Can't wait for the 8' French Doors.

Chimney and trim

Pop goes the chimney. As you walk into the house from the front door you will be welcomed with a warm, glowing fire in the woodstove.
Kevin has been steadily binning and priming the trim. Kevin loves trim.
He also loves phat returns and copper. Nice aren't they?
Back view. Trim being applied. It is a very precise, measured process.
Nice and simple.

Ell and porch

The back wall of the ell is shown. It has turned out to be a bit bigger than we thought. This will be a nice transition from the barn into the house. Oops this is a repeat and I haven't figured out how to delete pictures.
Side view with beginnings of porch frame.
The basic ell. There are windows on either side of the door. Felt material was laid on the ground with stone for the porch frame. This helps with ventilation and weed control.
Porch is up. Side view. The front and most of the side will be full-length screens.
What do you think? Nice breakfast on the porch soaking up the sun, magazine reading, margaritas, and maybe porch sleeping! Oh ya!!!!!

Dormers

Kevin's beloved dormers. They are similar to the dormers at John Brooks Farmhouse up the road. Speaking of Jon....Jon-Paul (my not so little brother) started his first day of highschool on Tuesday 9/4/07....Unbelievable
Our barn gets mutilated. Shingles had to come off because codes mandates that a layer of drywall be in place between the ell and barn :( And a window from the barn had to be removed as it was too close to the ell. But we get to keep the door.
Another tough day for Clarke at the job site. Actually he loves the new house. He is constantly rubbing all the new wood. He has caught his fair share of mice, but has been avoiding the chipmunks. We just caught the 6th chipmunk in our have-a-heart trap.

Framing of the ell. It will house a 3/4 bath and a washer/dryer. It will be slate stone of some sort and basically be the mudroom.
Starting of farmers porch.

2nd floor framing

South facing gable houses 3 windows. The big one is for the 2nd bedroom. The middle window is for our walk in closet and the 3rd window view will keep Kevin entertained as he sits on the toilet in the master bath.
North facing gable. Window to the left is for the 1st bedroom. Middle window is the 2nd bathroom and the small window is part of our bedroom.
Back of house includes bump out windows. Top floor window will be our view of Spruce Mountain from the master bedroom. From the other window I will be soaking in my vintage claw-foot tub admiring the backyard!
Full view from barn side. Ell not yet framed.
Here come the dormers! Isn't she cute!