Thanks to Our Test Guests
Ill have more to say about this after I get debriefed, but our first visitors seem to have had a wonderful time. Here are a couple more pics of what they arrived to find. The stairs turned out well:
As did the tv room downstairs (though I didnt have time to fish the dvd hdmi cable through the wall):
Lots of trim work and other finishing items to take care of, and I still need to finish the bathroom and hookup the washer and dryer. Hopefully the next couple of weeks will find us really finishing the last of these things...
Thanks to Our Test Guests
Hard to keep kids off as you build...
Probably a little overbuilt, and itll be a pain to take apart if our landlord makes us dismantle it before we move on to greener pastures.
The floor is 7/8" BC board (sometimes called project board), which has a nice smooth finish and is plenty sturdy. Most of my power tools are out in WV (including my jig saw), which meant some tricky and not-recommended improvisation with an old skil saw to shape the floor around the trees...
The plan is to use 1x2 slats in a rain-screen application for the walls, and to screen it in (mosquitoes are tough in these parts). About $350 in lumber and misc. materials. I fastened the beams with 1/2 x 6" lag screws. Not much to it after that. Framed the floor, roof and ladder; the roof will be corrugated plastic. Should finish today or tomorrow...