Its 11:24 on Saturday night and we spent 16 hours today working on the cabin. Minus a trip to the Depot to get some more lumber and a slight detour to Sequoia Sandwich for one of the greatest sandwiches in Bakersfield. And minus a trip to Chili's for Dinner... So I guess its not really 16 hours but more like...13.5.
Let's give today a theme: How about "EXHAUSTING CHANGE OF PLAN."
Lets step back a minute so you can get the whole picture. When we started this idea over a year ago, we started drawing plans. 18 changes later, we had our shell delivered as you have read.
Note: What looks good on paper, doesn't always work out perfectly in reality.
Once the shell arrived we quickly realized that the bathroom and kitchen design, wasn't going to work.
It would have left the living room too small and well... there were other things too. SOOOOO, what did we do?
Same thing everyone would do right? Tossed the plans in the trash and started from scratch!
We kept the overall feel concept but started changes dimensions real fast. Some of those as we were framing things.
Those caught up with us tonight. Not in a bad way but in a good way.
One of the dilemmas we were dealing with was the bathroom. We had originally drawn in an "L" shaped cabinet arrangement based on a picture we say on Pinterest. However, we just couldn't get it to layout in a way that we feel would allow us to take advantage of the space, serve in a function fashion and not cost an arm and a leg to have built.
Soooo, while at the Depot today we took a look at the custom order Bathroom cabinets and I think we have come up with a concept. Rather than do a custom built "L" shape vanity , I think we're changing to a straight 48" Vanity with a 15" Linen closet.
So where does that leave us?
Well, today we framed the bathroom walls, minus 3 studs against the outside wall. I just did this to give me room to move in and out with tools, etc. as well as the shower base.
The shower is framed from Pressure Treated Lumber. Its 42" Tall and will have glass from the top of the rail to the ceiling. Something along the lines of THIS. We'll be adding a Rain style shower head. We got the drain plumbing in today as well as the first part of the vent line.
The 12" Tall curbing at the bottom is because we will have the shower pan hot mopped in. I use a gentleman that comes in, lines the inside with felt, hot mops the pan in and sets the drain. Its almost 100% leak proof.
I also got the sheeting on the top of the bottom half of the closet.
From here I will frame the top half of the closet, to fit the vanity / chest of drawers combination.
I will resemble something like THIS. Ours will vary because the front bottom open spaces will have shoe holders / organizers in them. The right and left lower sections will have doors for storage and the top section will be out closet slash entertainment center. Out TV will go above the drawers.
Its hard to see the vision now but as we make progress, we'll update you for sure!
Im not as witty as Kinley so sorry for the lack of funny facts!
However, I got lots of technical mumbo jumbo that I can throw at you as we'll see if anything sticks or if you end up thinking Im a construction nerd!
We haven't really given you a feel for what we want the inside to look like to both Kinley and I have started a Pinterest Board with thoughts and ideas. You'll find out what we go with as we update you.
Here's a couple links to help you follow the design ideas:
KINLEY PINTEREST
ALAN PINTEREST - Sorry, I'm not as organized as my wife!
Let's see...Tomorrow's Schedule. 9:30 AM we have a brief meeting before we head out in the Ministry for a few hours and then we're back at it.
SUNDAY's GOALS:
1) Finish frame missing section of bathroom wall.
2) Finish framing the shower section.
3) Frame the ceiling of the bathroom
4) Start the closet. I would like to believe I can finish it tomorrow BUT I don't even know what Im going to be completely do on it so.. Looks like we're shooting from the hip on that one.
Anyway, its now almost 1 AM and I have to be up at 6:30 so, I'm going to sign off and we'll talk soon!
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