Corbels & Tile

Today was a perfect Colorado spring day.  It is 75 in Denver and the sun is shining.  I headed up to Breckenridge where it was about 60 degrees in town and around 50 up at our house.  What a gorgeous day for a drive.

This first picture shows the corbels that are now installed on the front of the garage.  The guys were also working on the 'truss' timbers that will make sort of a triangle connecting the timber at the roof peak with those at the midpoints below.

In the mudroom, the cabinet is now installed that will hold the sink and sit next to the stacking washer and dryer.  Candice worked with the finish carpenter to lay out the built ins (benches and cubbies) which he will build to match the finish on this cabinet.

In our master bath, Al got the bench installed.  It's made out of Cambria which is a solid surface quartz material.  It's the same style that we're going to have in our kitchen on all the countertops.  He just needs to finish a little grouting and then caulk everything and he'll be done with all the bathroom work.

For the master shower floor, we selected this natural 'pebble' material and it came out really great.

Upstairs in the guest suite, this bathroom is really coming together as well.  The cabinet color looks great with the floor tiles.

Here's another detail showing how the corbels hold up the timbers on the exterior of the garage.

Here's a llama.

Deck Framing & Roof Shingles

We spent last weekend skiing at Vail and couldn't manage to find time to make it up to our place to check on progress.  I wasn't sure what to expect when I made a quick run up the hill this morning to see the house.  The good news is that there's been a lot of movement since our last visit two weeks ago.

First, the roof is shingled!  This is a pretty big step since it required all the facia boards to be installed on the exterior and the drip edge.  It looks to me like the shingles are maybe 75% done so my guess is they'll be complete this week.

This first picture below shows the shingles on the main roof and on the connector roof.  It also shows the detail of the drip edge on the garage roof (near where the ladder is leaning).

There has also been significant progress on the tile work.   This first picture shows the master bathroom shower.  The large tile has been set and Al is going to work on the accent tile today and tomorrow.

The pony wall has also been built out.  This is where the bench will be.  Al says that the countertop company will measure for the bench this week since we're getting it from them.

Upstairs, the guest master bath is nearly complete.  The tile is installed & grouted and it really came out great.  There is paper over the floor so I didn't get a picture of that.

In the guest suite, Greg installed a couple of the doors and trimmed them out.  After the bathroom is complete, all this room will need is paint, stain & carpet to be wrapped up.

It is a beautiful day up there, sunny & warm.  Mark and Shane took advantage of the great weather and were working on getting the deck framed.  They had the exterior framing / posts completed and were working on the joists.  They were probably going to get the framing mostly completed next week and start installing the Trex.

Tile? Smile!

We made a quick stop at the house on Saturday on our way to visit friends of ours up in Frisco.  The girls stayed in the car watching Madagascar which gave us a chance to walk through the house and see some of the progress.  We also brought Bailey into the house for the first time to let him have a look around.

The main area of progress has been interior trim and tile.   This first picture shows the girls' bathroom with the tile mostly installed (not yet grouted) in the wall.  Natalie & Isabel are especially excited about the "sparkly" tile that we used for the accents.

This next picture shows the interior window trim in the office.

This next picture shows the floor tile in the guest master bathroom.

This is the shower floor in that same bathroom.

I realized that we haven't posted a picture in a while of the exterior of the house so I made a point to take this picture and post it.  You can see that the team has made a lot of progress on the siding.  Just about the entire house is completely covered in siding with the exception of a few areas on the front (you can see here between the two gables).  Also missing is the metal that will be down below and on the bumpout.  That won't be installed until it gets a little warmer, probably in April.

This detail picture shows you what the completed exterior finish looks like including the timbers, the tongue & groove cedar under the roof and the facia boards capping the roof ends.