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All I did today was collect material, siding and a front door. I scored some sweet salvaged cedar lap siding with a great patina and some nice graying. I'm planning on installing it as is, giving it a quick once over with the pressure washer and then just putting a clear finish on it so it keeps the weathered look. I scored the front door from Habitat for Humanity, it's a solid wood full light door that has been painted a bunch of times on one side giving that side a nice, "shabby chic" look. I built a jamb for it and made the painted side the inside, the outside is still a nice looking natural finish but I think I'm going to go bright red, forest green, or some sort of blue with it.....but, I have also been eyeing the giant pile of paint cans in my garage from the 45 years of my house's life. I think I will try to burn up as many of those as possible on this project so we will see what I find. I'll try to post a picture of the door later.
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1/19/2018 03:49:05 am
Nice effort leading to a full fledged tree house, it would be interesting to know about your experiences living there, is it off the grid? 1/24/2018 11:33:38 am
Thank you, I am glad you like our treehouse! We don't actually live in it, it is in our backyard. It serves as a playhouse and place to get away as we have a strict no cell phones rule when in there. We do family movie nights and such. As far as being off-grid...kinda. We have it completely wired into a panel that is fed through an RV plug. We are in the planning stages of having it craned out of it's existing spot and moved to our lake property where it will be off-grid run off of a generator until we build the house and can run power to it. Leave a Reply. |
AuthorI'm Kris, the owner, contractor, and lead carpenter here at A Home to Envy. Archives
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