Progress!

Things are starting to look like something! After doing a dry fit for House 1, we decided that the bays do not need to be beveled after all. Hooray!  

We made alterations between the original plan and the final cut to reduce the width of each of the bays, hoping for a better fit than the pilot house has. It worked, we think. (Yes!) As anticipated, the new approach means that  some filling between the wall segments will likely be required. I brought some raw lumber for precisely that purpose. Filling is a ton better than beveling, especially for the odd angles of the bays.                                                (It took two sets of hands to dry fit and photograph at the same time, so these are Michael's hands, not mine, by the way.)

Since the dreaded beveling isn't going to be necessary at least for the moment (the base of the sunroom will still need beveling, but goodness, there's so much less of that, I am happy to do that by hand and count my blessings while I do it), I got on with painting. 

Even though I did all the priming and staining for all three houses at the same time, I decided to move ahead one house at a time for a bit while I make sure the final cut and related plans really work out as hoped. 

Once I made that decision, I went ahead and sorted out all the inserts and frames for all the windows and doors by house (THAT was satisfying). As a process, that wasn't very photogenic, so I didn't document it, nor did I take a picture of completing the shingling on one more roof plane on House 2, while I participated (well, listened to) a really boring conference call to which I was committed.

Tomorrow will likely see less progress, as there's more work to do that will interfere with my fun, but today saw so much progress, I'll manage. It always takes me a while to get the paint color mixed just right, so I'll likely need another coat of color to the components for House 1 to get it just right before I start dressing the sides with bandboard and trim. Just seeing  the color emerging and is a great thing. The spray paint primer coat seems really to help with the warping, by the way. After the pieces dried, even though they warped a bit when the color went on, they're almost all totally flat.  More soon.