Many different interior tasks are now underway including painting, installing floors, trim carpentry, and tile work. We've made lots of progress in the last couple of weeks. It is hard to imagine why it will take until August to finish the home, but our builder is sticking to that date. Below are pictures showing various aspects of the interior work.
Finish Carpentry
Work started last week on trimming out the doors and windows, and we are quite pleased with the results so far. In particular, the three-panel walnut doors are beautiful.
Case and base moulding waiting to be installed
Interior doors lined up in garage (to be stained after fitting)
A basement bedroom door installed (basement doors are 7' tall and 1 3/8" thick;
upstairs doors are 8' tall and 1 3/4" thick)
Tile Work
Tricia says there are 37 different types of of tile and quartz in the home. The work is just now beginning.
Some of our tile in a warehouse in Denver
En suite bath in basement
Master bath showing tub and shower with underlayment for tile and heated floor
Flooring
The installation of the hardwood floors should be completed this week. The actual finishing of the wood will occur at the end of the project. We've put 5" white oak boards in the upstairs and in a section of the downstairs.
Cabinets
Like the doors, the cabinets are walnut. We found a local craftsman who built the boxes using a CNC machine out of 3/4" plywood. The building process is roughly as follows: design cabinets using software, feed CNC machine 3/4" plywood and it does the cutting, and assemble. The door fronts were made by someone he works with. We're quite pleased with the result.
Cabinets stacked in garage waiting for installation
A closeup of two of the cabinets
Utility Room
One feature of the home that I haven't mentioned is the utility room. At the very beginning of this blog there was video of rock hammering. That hammering made it possible to have a full basement, including a unfinished storage room that is about 1100 sq ft. Who knows what we'll do with this.
The unfinished utility room
Next Steps
Among our next tasks are selecting a railing for the interior staircase and thinking about landscaping. If we need to move rocks or more dirt around, it would be good to do this before asphalt is put on the driveway.
