@ayankdownunder maybe it's that his other end wants to be elevated because it's so full of gas.

@Kurtroedeger 🤣 now I have the urge to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

@ayankdownunder Clark looks so skinny in that photo. He eats almost double what the chonkers on the couch eats 😂

@Kurtroedeger 😁 a very sweet looking trio!😍

@Teej_Muk no ridgeback in him
We did a dog DNA, he's about half boxer, some doberman.

@Teej_Muk the one in the chair is the laziest border collie mix you ever met. 100% chill.

@Teej_Muk here's his results

@Kurtroedeger
So a good ole mutt! Like so many other awesome doggos...

@raspberrypanda total doof

@Novels56 I love showing the house to people. Lot of work went into building it. Thread coming

@Novels56 living room view from my chair right now
Here is the fine selection of dog toys for the fuzzbutts
Entryway behind me with computer nook and kiddo.

@Novels56 please ignore the massive amount of clutter in the kitchen and dining room, and the laundry rack 😂. It has been some long weeks and .....::waves hand :: blah blah. I made the little doors below the stairs for the pantry from the same wood we used for the flooring.
Kitchen was an absolute steal for what we paid. Found factory cabinets, so not that custom markup. Tile, cabinets, counters AND appliances was $15k when we built. Backsplash is tin, easy self install, magnetic too.

@Kurtroedeger I’m liking everything I see….I don’t care about the clutter, it just means people live there. 🙂

@Kurtroedeger @Novels56

What a beautiful post and beam home! And it shouldn’t look like a magazine photo shoot. You LIVE in it!! Clutter comes and goes. Your home looks like love and family.❤️💕

@Beastalowrangler @Novels56 ♥️😍

@Novels56 wife wanted a curve shape or something 'not just a rectangle' to the patio, so I painted markings on the ground and it has two curves out like this. She agreed and I made sure not to point out that on aerial pic it would look like the house has boobs 🤭. And the Casita where I hide the inlaws in when they visit (which is often) 🤷‍♂️

@Novels56 master bedroom is on the first floor. Wife is drifting to sleep right now so not gonna go turn lights on for pics, had to dig through older ones. It's the doorway in the background of the kitchen pic, and just to the right of that door is the computer nook kiddo was at. Behind the fridge around the corner is the half bath. The vanity in there is one of my favorite things we made. Same with the old cedar shingle focal wall in the bedroom.

@Kurtroedeger that vanity is awesome!

@Novels56 used furniture store for something like $30. Stripped the mechanical guts out, took the legs off , cleaned and painted. Took 3 months to find a sink to fit it though. Then creative surgery on the back side to plumb it. I think it's just fun.

@Kurtroedeger it is..🙂

@Novels56 I forgot the mirror, that's an old window frame.from. my parents house I grew up in. 😂 It was laying around so I asked my dad. Yoink., now mine. There is probably lead paint underneath the paint I put on it 😬, but it just hangs there and no kids are gnawing on it. So it's ok.

@Kurtroedeger lol….I think it’s safe…I love the details of where you got things.

@Novels56 sorry if I'm rambling on too much. I get on a topic sometimes....
Here's a drone shot with the house on the right side. Sadly we lost the giant trees out front, emerald ash borer and lightning ☹️ they really set the house in the landscape.

@Kurtroedeger keep going…I don’t mind. I’m trying to figure out what the dark round looking things are in the bottom right of the picture.

@Novels56 alfalfa bales. Farmer wraps them in the plastic and they do a fermenting type thing like that for feed for the dairy cows he raises

@Kurtroedeger @Novels56

Sorry to jump in Kurt—did you build your home or refinish it? I can’t temember

@Minholkin @Novels56 built. Contractor did the timber frame and outside walls which are SIPs, super insulation. I did most of the rest. Not plumbing though, nor siding or tile, or drywall. I'm okay at those, but focused on other things instead. Had to balance cost of those trades vs what I knew and where I could save money. For example, I knew I could do plumbing or electrical, but not time for both, so I got quotes and hired the cheaper of the two and did the other one myself.

@Kurtroedeger @Novels56

Neat!! Did you hide things along the way so that someday, someone might encounter your whimsical humor as they update and renovate? Like, generations from now? 😄

@Minholkin @Novels56

🤫🤫🤫🤫

Yes.

@Kurtroedeger @Novels56

hee hee hee!!

@Minholkin @Novels56 in our first house we owned I installed crown molding in the bedroom, which is a tedious thing for me. I wrote in sharpy on the wall 'why would you take the molding off, do you know how long it took me to install!!!!'

@Kurtroedeger @Minholkin @Novels56

You know it'll be a box of mouldy cookies, right?! Right?!

#PandaSass 😝

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Also, nice house tour. 👍
Hats off to you on all the hard work you put in. 🙇‍♀️

@raspberrypanda @Minholkin @Novels56 please, like I'd leave uneaten cookies 🙄 you should know me better by now.

There is more than one time capsule, little things written here and there, a poem or two. Lots of things have the date installed written on them.

@Minholkin @Novels56 since the timber frame and outside walls make up the structure, I could gut the interior and rearrange walls however I want. Only supporting wall inside is the one along the stairs. It's why factory cabinets worked for me, because I could just shift a wall 3 or 4 inches and be fine and then could keep all those savings.

@Kurtroedeger , wise man. Pay the experts where expertise is needed. 😎🤓🥰@Minholkin @Novels56

@Kurtroedeger ahhh, I kind of thought that might be it but the dark color was throwing me off. I’ve only seen white colored wraps around here.

@Novels56 white are more the hay type. Not sure if it makes a difference, but I've seen him use the black for alfalfa. 🤷‍♂️. White looks like giant marshmallows 🤤. Imagine the s'mores those could make.

#subtoot
#stillbitter

@Kurtroedeger @Novels56

I see you over there fuming. 😂

Also, we see a lot of green wraps here.

http://www.donaghyscrop.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2018-DONAGHYS-Bale-Wrap.pdf

@Kurtroedeger Ha!

@Novels56 and panorama view (click to embiggen) out the front, so bedroom windows and living room just left of the chair I started this thread in. We are very spoiled with it. The backyard looks onto woods then.
If I remember I'll do upstairs tomorrow.

@Kurtroedeger Thank you for sharing. It’s such a nice view. I’m gonna sit over here and pretend not to be a bit jealous.

@Novels56 we oriented the house so the garage faces the one neighbor house on purpose. We can feel a bit more removed from it all. We know we are blessed to be able to build this here. Right now I can hear owls calling outside 😍
Fun fact. Someone was clearing a barn and gave me (FREE!) a bunch of rough sawn OLD oak. Super hard wood. That was used for the shelves to the left of the fire place, above the computer, for the floating tv stand in the bedroom, and the frame of the bed (not shown).

@Novels56 the fire place mantle is scrap from the beams used to build the house, and scrap 2x4 material stained and layered for texture too.

@Kurtroedeger you are blessed but I know you have worked hard to get what you have. Again, thank you for sharing pictures of your home.

@Novels56
It was fun, thanks for asking. Oh, just remembered, the dog bowl holder in the kitchen is scrap flooring too 😂 made use of every piece I had.
All the first floor doors are 36" wide so we can get old here and use mobility scooters just fine. Also makes moving furniture and appliances in and out.much easier. Big recommend for anyone building a house to give themselves that extra 6 inches on all the doors. Not much increase in price, but a subtle thing that just makes life easier.

@Kurtroedeger boobs 🤣