Happy New Year!

morning fog 1.5.12
Double Deer Ranch, Fredericksburg, TX
The early morning sun slowly burned off the fog.

Hook 'em!

Twig (recently re-named)

The front door is salvaged long leaf pine.

 The fireplace really makes the room...

Fireplace screen detail....

 Hard to see the sconces are very pretty... love the granite.

 Big tub :)

 The chandelier really deserves another look, don't ya think?

Paloma (recently re-named)

I'm not great photographer -- my color is all off throughout, but you can get the gist of it.

 I am crazy over the granite in the sink.  It has lots of crystal looking bits...

 Great tub, great view, great tile.. awful picture.

I love the kitchenette colors - green/blue and espresso.

Coyote

We are getting very close to being finished.

 Lights have gone up and floors have been polished....

 The slate looks a little overwhelming in the photo, but it's truly beautiful in person.

 Our farmhouse-industrial look is carried on throughout -- including the bathroom vanity.

Paint & Dirt

The past couple of weeks have been filled with lots of paint & dirt. While fresh paint is exciting, it's a little challenging to capture. Seems like I'm always chasing the light trying to get it "just right."

The kitchenette is coming along -- the wall color is a soft green-blue and I'll trim it in espresso.

The counter tops just got installed, too.

The tile I found for the tub surround was a surprise.  I instantly liked it at the tile store, but didn't have an idea of where I might use it.  Inspiration struck and the tub surround was IT!  It really offers a rustic feel to the bath.  Everyone who has seen it in person has really liked it.

And for the "dirt" portion -- I'll spare you pictures of the septic system and water lines,

but hey, it IS really exciting!

Painting Progress

Spent a good bit of the weekend painting the great room. 
It's a Ralph Lauren color (Devonshire) that looks like a buckskin horse.

Recycle and Reuse

Salvage was added around the bathroom entrance. 

The mantle is in place -- more salvaged wood.

More Progress

A few more things are getting put into place...
bath vanity (sans granite & sink), kitchen cabinets, and front door transom.

Over the Weekend

Stained a closet door..

 Stained a few more celing boards....

Ceiling is mostly done... very pretty.

Still Here

Paloma has been getting all of the attention lately, with a new rock wall
and the beginnings of a fireplace.

This is my ceiling in my (still kind of unnamed cabin). 
The pine boards got a nice warm stain this weekend. 

Fireplace

Rock work is complete.  On hunt for mantle.

Fireplace Going Up

Barn Wall

I love this wall on the barn - so cool.

More Progress

Sheet rock is more exciting than you think, right?
Actually it really gives me a better sense of walls and room divisions. I can start measuring to see if that piece of furniture will really fit..... fingers crossed! 

While sheet rock and roofs (or would it be rooves?) are nice,

the barn acquired the most interesting addition--

these awesome custom doors made of antique oak. 

Let Me Introduce You....

.... to the other two. While one cabin would be nice, three are better.  Right?
This is Paloma:

 And this is Coyote....

Catching Up

My cabin has been in a holding pattern waiting for the other two cabins to catch up.
Small, slightly unexciting things have been happening, though.
Exterior painting finished and excess rock shards picked up.

 Interior insulation and floor staining.

Rock and Paint

Finished with most of the painting....

 Rock work lookin' good!

More and More Rock

There's lots of uninteresting, albeit important, stuff going on inside - air conditioning, electrical, plumbing roughing in.... but the outside of the cabin is showing the most exciting  activity.

Hard to see in the above photo, but I have been painitng the exterior bits while more rock is going up.
My test color painting is visible below right-- a grey-brown with a hint of green
(God Bless Ralph Lauren's colorists).

More Rock