Moving along with our kitchen cabinets build, today I set out to make the cabinet face frame.  This isn’t an astonishingly difficult task, but I was apprehensive because of the fact that this is where the money’s at as far as cabinets are concerned.  With the carcass, any small mistakes can be covered up by the countertop, the drawers and the face frame.  If you screw up the cabinet face frame, there’s not many options for rectifying it. (more…)

Prior to beginning day 18, I made sure to take stock of my material pile.  What had begun as several piles of what would comprise our house was now dwindling daily.  Large stock was taken down as the lower rafters were framed.  I knew that by day’s end my pile of rafters would no longer be on the ground; they would be on the house. (more…)

For as tired and irritable as I was on day 16, day 17 found me refreshed and invigorated.  Even though my framing never turns out perfectly, I still enjoy it.  Throughout the entire process of building our house, framing has been the most joyous of all tasks.  What begins small ends up being the skeletal, structural bones of our entire house, and it fills me with happiness to see it done. (more…)

I was sore.  Tired and sore.  Cranky, tired and sore.  Sheeting takes a toll on the body as well as the mind.  For as simple a task as it is, it weighs upon you.  The physical labor is fleeting.  The monotony of the task lasts long afterwards. (more…)