SHAZAM!!!

It's been over a year since we decided to build this cabin.  For all of that time I've been agonizing over every single detail of it, down to door knobs and drawer pulls.  We're preparing to return to Colorado in 11 days (but who's counting?), and it was Come to Jesus time on some of the purchases we're responsible for.  As it is frankly easier to get small stuff here, where Lowes and Home Depot are 13 minutes away, rather than wait to get to Colorado and then spend whole days in Colorado Springs instead of in the mountains with our project, we spent the morning buying everything from dead bolts and lock safes to faucets and sink strainers.  You wouldn't think this would be too arduous, but after all this time it was hard to actually commit, for SURE, to brushed nickel everything.  Plain wore us out.

We arrived back home, taking refuge inside from the triple digit heat.  Checking our email we found a note from our contractor, Brian Shelton, with four -- count 'em, FOUR -- photos attached.  We've been away from the project three weeks now, and Brian was away for over a week of that on a trip to visit family, so we were not expecting the progress we saw in the photos.  We were blown away!  When I handed my husband the printed photos you'd have thought I was handing him his newborn child -- and since that is completely out of the question, the cabin is clearly his new "baby".


The second floor is framed and the trusses and huge Versa Lam beam up.  You can see the shape of the whole cabin now, and we LOVE it.  From the front it is classic Cape Cod -- the front door smack in the center with two same-sized windows equidistant on either side, and a steeply pitched (45 degree) roof, pretty much what most kids would draw when they drew a house.

From the back, what you'll see when you come up the drive, the raised portion of the roof, the better to accommodate the loft, is quite obvious.

This shot was taken standing outside at the back of our bedroom looking up at the loft.

Of course now all we want to do is pack the car with our door knobs and plumbing fixtures and head north.  Now, right this very minute.  It's going to be a long week and a half.