Trost House

Trost House

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Yes!

 Finally, I started the parts that make it look like our house. I got all the windows into three sides of the house, got some of the little bits that somehow escaped the painting fixed up and glued on, and trimmed out a few of the windows. The south side windows are fully trimmed, and they need only windows and curtains. The side still needs bandboard and corner trim and, of course, the sunroom.

The front of the house house has all the windows in and framed. The bandboard is complicated on the front and I haven't figured out how I'm going to get it to match at the edges better than the pilot house, so I'm going to leave that for a bit. Oh, and I got all the gables done, too.
Gable trimmed out.
South Side and Front.

The east (driveway) side has all the windows in (save the basement and I'm still thinking about whether my plan for those is sensible enough to proceed) and has the same bandboard needs--and dilemmas. 

East (driveway) side
All in all, it was very satisfying. It went a bit faster than I remembered, in part because most of the many (many) windows on the east side aren't individually trimmed with the uniform blue touch: they have bandboard at their tops and a continuous blue trim on top of that. So, once I figure out how to deal with the continuity problems of the bays, that will go faster than cutting the blue trim for each window. The blue doesn't show very well in this picture, but it does top the bandboard at both levels.


I need to think about how to stage the other two houses: I think I'll start the priming and painting and intersperse it along with continuing the roofing, so the houses can each progress a bit. I need to get through some of the construction with the new cut, to make sure it's going to work and don't want to do anything that will have to be redone on the following houses.

All in all, a very satisfying day!

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