Life Update: The House Goes On

It's been over a month since my last blog post. Yikes! But not to worry; tiny house construction is still under way, just more slowly, with less blogging activity to accompany it.

My plan for the summer was to work basically full-time on the house, to blog exhaustively about the whole process, and to hold off on other demands on my time, primarily (I thought) job searching. To that, Life has said: "Yeah, right!" And I have replied: "...Yeah! Right!" Because now, instead of having one project--to use the term loosely--I have four. 

No Worms in the Loft!

The loft joists were one of the first interior structural components that I added to my house. Pretty soon, though, I realized that those joists would just be in the way until I installed a floor over them.

Plywood? Meh. Store-bought decking? Maybe. Hardwood floorboards? Probably too thin unless I lay down a plywood subfloor, and then I'll be staring at plywood from my bed underneath--nah.

But then I learned that my Uncle Chuck had in his keeping a pile of gorgeous 1 1/4" thick, 13-15" wide pine boards that had been ripped out of the floor of a church in Oregon. History, character, conservation of resources!

Hard work!

Window Trim ("Rustic Style")

Window trim is one of those funny architectural components that I never gave much thought to--yeah, yeah, windows have trim, whatever--until I realized that--wait a minute--I have to install some, right now, before I can proceed with the rainscreen and siding and all that. Oh no!

So online I went and executed a flurry of searches--"exterior window trim style," "window trim simple," "shou sugi ban window trim," "modern window trim"...

And pretty much realized that I could do whatever I wanted. Heck yes!