6 or 7″ new snow yesterday. Wet stuff. Hurts your back just to look at it knowing it’s just a little too much to just leave and wait for it to melt. But I am done doing super clean-up jobs on these snow falls… I will do just enough to get by… Hopefully it will … Read more
Once there was a small town on the iron range in northern Minnesota.There came a time when they began thinking that their City hall building was getting old and needed to be replaced. It was not an entirely popular way of thinking. At the time the old City Hall was built it was considered one … Read more
An update on this covered porch project. It is all finished except for some new steps and the staining so that it matches the rest of the house. Both of those things will have to wait for a little bit warmer weather. Here are some pictures: …and just to refresh our memories on what it … Read more
A few years ago I first looked at this house with some people who had just bought it. They were having a hard time figuring out what to do with it. It was one of those homes that only the architect who designed it could love. Multi split level with no real rooms or separated … Read more
The first three are grown now, young adults in their 20s… the fourth one in high school. But there are still plenty of remnants of childhood around here. Last fall, these two toy trucks sitting in the dried leaves and sunlight caught my attention: “Leftover Trucks”, 19″ x 11.5″, pencil on paper by John Huisman … Read more
Overall, it’s been a slow winter.We are keeping busy with some smaller projects and making our way in to spring.A small covered entry porch that I mentioned back on this post, is now underway.Here is a picture I took yesterday on the site: It is actually a nice spot for winter work. The sun is … Read more
It takes me a while every year… to get used to the idea of winter.…maybe it even takes a little longer every year. I think the last few winters have been difficult to appreciate because we never got the real cold. This year we actually had that week or more of weather where it never … Read more
I have been posting in a new gallery on my facebook page of this little renovation project.It was a little bunkhouse/sauna building by the lake that was still in good enough shape to fix up and make into something. The roof had a little damage where a mischievous beaver had dropped a large Aspen on … Read more
An interesting article on a subject we struggle with constantly: http://www.loghome.com/building-cost-per-square-foot/ http://huismanconcepts.com/
We have been framing a deck overlooking the lake on this recently completed house. We were able to get the footings done before it got too cold… There hasn’t been a lot of snow yet this year so the outside work hasn’t been to difficult. These last two photos were taken with my phone so … Read more