California Log Homes

More Aug '10 Pictures

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Aug. 2010

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Photos #3 Aug. '10

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Random photos #2

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Random photos 12/09 - 8/10

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We had Easter at our house. Hooray!!! We are almost ready to move in!

March 14, 2009

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Here are our latest photos.
Master Bedroom

Master Bath

Guest Bath

Upstairs

Hearth Room

Upstairs Bath

Looking down on the entry.

Hearth Room

Living Room

Dining Room

Work Day

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This last weekend our children organized a work day for us. We had approximately 43 people who came on Saturday morning. They accomplished in one day what would have taken Ron and I together about a month or more to do. We are SOOO grateful to all of those who worked so hard and seemed to have such a great time doing it! What a blessing! Our daughter-in-law, Tracy fixed an amazing lunch for everyone and Aaron, Christa and her husband Aaron chipped in with everyone else. Our son, Sheldon got up at 3:30 am to drive from the coast to help too. You can see that we had a few hams in the group but mostly just a lot of hard working friends. You can see more pictures if you go to Christa's blog on the right of this page. Thank you to all our wonderful friends! You can also see at the bottom of these the view we had from our house of the valley fog. Later the sun broke through and it was a beautiful day.

November 2008

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Here some of the most recent photos we have. You'll see we've put down linoleum in the upstairs bathroom and laundry room and wood floor down in two bedrooms, hall bathroom and office. The kitchen cabinets are installed and most of the appliances.

Progress as of September

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Here are the latest pictures. All of the logs on the west end of the house are complete thanks to our friend Tim Cook who came from Poole, England to help.
All of the painting inside is complete and we're ready to start putting down floor
coverings and about half of the kitchen is installed. Also there are pictures of the ceilings. We're about half way through them as well. It's a three man job and we can only progress when Ron has help. Ron's son, Sheldon came last Saturday and, between the two of them, much of the ceiling was put up. On a family note, our daughter, son-in-law, youngest son, daughter-in-law and grandkids came up while Sheldon was here and had lunch together. What fun! I'll have more pictures soon.

July 2008

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We have been busy and I've been slow in getting these pictures posted.
This is how it looks as of today. All of the stucco is complete!
We have all of the basement painted and baseboards down. The shiny floor you see is stained concrete and we are so happy with the results. The red room you see is on the first floor and it is the dining room. The third floor is still being sheet rocked so I don't have any pictures of it. The blue room with the pedestal sink and toilet is obviously a bathroom. It's in the basement and has an infrared sauna and will have a glass block shower enclosure. The one room with a bed is where we sleep when the heat is unbearable. That is a guest bedroom. The room with boxes and a shelf is a storage room in the basement. The largest room is a game room and will have a soda bar where you see a black pipe coming out of the floor.
Please forgive the duplicates. I had a hard time editing this.

May 2008

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The following are pictures of our latest progress. Our son, Aaron came up once to help Ron put logs on the south and west sides of the house and then again to help prime the basement walls that finally have sheet rock. Then our good friends John and Karen Wall came up today (5/10) to help us paint. We now have the first coat on most all the basement walls. It looks great!!

Inside view

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You can see how many logs we've completed. We still have all the inside to do because the county won't let us do anything inside until all the logs are on the outside. Bummer!
Here are views of the loft, main floor and basement.
Also, here is Ron up on the fork lift 30 ft. in the air. Debbie's driving!

Feb. Progress - Much Better!

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We have all the logs on the front, halfway up the east side and part of the south side started.
We also graded the driveway and had an open house this weekend.

The logs go on!!

2008-01-21T08:20:00.000-08:00

We started on the front porch and now the porch walls are complete, and the garage. We've worked some on the east wall and almost finished all the front of the house.

You can see that we have a roof and the facia has been painted. Hooray!!!!

November - The roof goes on!

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We DO have some fall color in the valley!!!

Sept./Oct. Progress

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After the footings and garage floor were poured the framing for the garage and front porch began.

Aaron and Tracy came up yesterday (10/19) to help us install the front door and the last of the windows
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This is help? All the way to the ground Aaron!

Voila! Adding the garage and front porch sure changed the look of the house! Now they're working on the deck in the back.

August progress

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Our great son-in-law, Aaron Wiens spent part of his labor day weekend helping Ron lay out the footings for the garage and front porch. It was between 106 and 110 degrees and they just kept plugging along. Thanks so much, Aaron!

Doesn't Aaron have a great smile!?!

A lot of the progress this month you cannot see. The rough plumbing is complete, the heating and air is about half way finished and we should have a garage and a deck soon!

July Progress

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We now have all the windows and doors installed (with the exception of the front and garage doors).
We're ready to dig pier footings for the deck on this side of the house.

We are also ready to dig footings for the garage which will attach to the right front side where you see the single door space.
The plumbers have been here all week and the painters have primed the facia.

2007-06-24T19:46:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of pics to bring you a little more up-to-date on our progress.
We are just about to put the roof sheeting on and are backfilling the foundation. The garage concrete will go in next and work will begin on the back porch. There is a great deal of log work on the rear and a little log work on the front porch. We'll have pictures of that FOR SURE.

Our May Progress

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Welding the saddle for the ridge beam!

Third floor has begun and we're ready for rafters to go on!

You can see that the waterproofing is completed on the basement. Ron and I did it ourselves.

2007-05-08T22:09:00.000-07:00

Beginning framing is sooooo exciting!! As of this posting, the main floor is on and the walls will be going up beginning tomorrow. Yea!

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Our grandaughter, Charlotte, came to visit and brought her parents! What a GREAT weekend with Uncle Aaron, Aunt Tracy, Aaron Wiens, Christa, Aunt Lisa and cousins Austin and Dillon spending time with Grandad and Grammy. Charlotte loved her new wagon too!

The "REAL" inspectors arrive.

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Two of our grandsons help (?) Grandad !

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The logs arrive and the basement floor is stained.

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2007-04-17T22:10:00.000-07:00

First we had to build Ron's shop. It is a 30' X 60' metal building. The east side will have logs & stone to match the house.

Finally we were able to start on our house!

2007-04-15T11:36:00.000-07:00

WELCOME! We are in the process of building our log home. You are invited to follow our progress. We are dealers for Wilderness Log Homes. Our home will also be our model, located in Sanger. CA.
If you are interested in a log home please check out our company web site at www.wildernessloghomes.com. You can obtain our contact information there.
First of all, you can see why we loved this location. Enjoy the view!

More exciting photos to come!