The Main Cabin: A Pictorial Update

"The Doctor is in"

Me and my "posse"

Adirondack Sunrise

Front elevation, thus far. Log stairs and railing to be added. Shrubs will be planted below wood siding.

Home made solar rack for 400 watts total. That's at least 1200W daily! Who says we can't watch TV?  Trench is now dug the 55ft to cabin. Controllers, invertor and batteries will be located in basement.

Creek? What creek? Oh yeah, the one visible from all the rooms. Love it!

General layout of the main area. All furniture pieces are adopted and refinished as my side hobby.

Stovepipe is in but still needs to be set straight once I'm done sliding the stove back and forth and flooring is in. I'm glad I used single wall pipe. Like the stove, it throws off lots of heat and costed less.

Side elevation

Frontal view. Two rear vertical logs missing. Also still missing, log rails and stairs.

Heat proof stone wall I'm making. 

Getting the boards planed and ready for the walls. I stained 34 of them that evening.

The stones roughly laid out the way they will be put up. Some stones were swapped out for better blending.

Using a float, I'm pushing wet cement into the wire lath to make a scratch coat.

Finished scratch coat will allow bonding of river rock to the wall. Behind the wall are metal beams and a 3 inch space that exceeds building codes for fire safety.

Insulating well is worth all the itching. I'm only half done but ran out of insulation batts.