Here is a shot into the kitchen of the cottage. The baseboard trim here has only been primed and will need to get painted the same color as the wall. The reason for this is that Kai had to have the cupboards installed in order to cut and install this piece correctly. The same holds true for the baseboard on the opposite wall.

Here is the Sombreuil rose again with a good crop of weeds around its base. This rose is so much happier under the new watering regime. I am not quite sure why because I thought it was getting plenty of water before . . .

Looking down on the soon-to-be-floor of the house, it looks like they are ready for inspection. One thing you can’t see in a photo is that the radiant heat pipes are all under pressure.

In order to pass inspection, they are filled with air and need to show a certain amount of pressure to pass. This is because once the system is functioning, it will be filled with a lot of hot water which had better not leak! The pressure is a way to make sure the system is up to the load of heavy water it will carry in the future. Also, I imagine that the pressure helps the hoses stay expanded during the pour when all the heavy concrete is landing on them. The system would not function very well if the pipes collapsed during the pour and the concrete hardened around them like that.

So much work went into the forms for the carport piers and to make sure the posts stay vertical. As you can see from this photo, there are numerous braces and supports for each post.

Here is one more rainbow dirt shot. This picture is along the south footing for the veranda. This ditch was hand dug during the last week and you can see the colors of dirt vary along this twenty foot span, although it looks much more impressive in real life.

The orange fence in the background is to keep workers out of the area to the south of the house.

Looking through the closet in the guest bedroom through the house and out the dining room, this is the other part of the view that the dining room will have.

You are also looking down the walkway in the courtyard which goes by the living room. The foyer is that narrow area by the closer corner of the walkway and the front door to the house will be near that corner.