{"id":2326,"date":"2014-11-08T03:25:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T03:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2019-10-10T06:09:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:09:13","slug":"this-weeks-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=2326","title":{"rendered":"This Week’s Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the roof trusses up and the eaves and fascias and barge boards going up, the houses are really, really feeling good to us.<\/p>\n

The overhang framing adds such a dimension to the houses and the curb appeal. The stacked, double 2×8 fascias add a sense of mass to the houses that, I feel, is critical. One pet peeve I have as an architect is wimpy overhangs and fascias that are barely larger than the gutters; you can barely see that they’re even there!<\/p>\n

The roofs are going on; the cottage has the felt paper and the main house is getting close.<\/p>\n

We are also starting to make some of our selections of materials, even though we’ve had most everything picked for four years. We had a walnut selected for our cabinets that we LOVED. The grain, the hue (a very dark walnut) were perfect. Except. The sample was Peruvian Walnut. As in rain forest walnut.<\/p>\n

So we’re rethinking the walnut and looking at a domestic Black Walnut. Aside from the rain forest issue, my concern was the way walnut fades. We had cherry floors in our previous house and cherry darkens with age; no problem. In fact, it looked better and better year after year. But walnut fading doesn’t excite us too much.<\/p>\n

So I Googled it. (Google is a verb now). And I found that walnut apparently really only fades in direct sunlight and\/or UV. Well, none of our cabinets will see any direct sunlight. They are all internal to the house or under a large porch overhang. So I think we’re good.<\/p>\n

If you click on the picture above, you can see both houses. I did a panorama and it doesn’t fit well in my blog format.<\/p>\n

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With the roof trusses up and the eaves and fascias and barge boards going up, the houses are really, really feeling good to us. The overhang framing adds such a dimension to the houses and the curb appeal. The stacked, double 2×8 fascias add a sense of mass to the houses that, I feel, is … <\/p>\n

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