On January 9, again a wonderful day -- high 50's at 8 AM, into the sixties by the time I left a couple of hours later. Lots of pictures this time and a slower Internet connection, so I've played around a bit with the image quality versus file size, hope it all works out all right.
The rails on the street side of the house are to be painted white, so I asked Kaz what the right approach would be to minimize maintenance. He came up with a vinyl sheathing that looks quite nice and ought to be fairly trouble-free.
These are views of the entrance. You see the vinyl rails both around the sundown porch (left picture) and on the stairway to the main entrance (right picture).
Another look at the entrance rails on the left, and a look from the sundown porch looking to the northwest to the right.
Kaz helpfully got the cypress trim re-painted from white to gray. I'd felt that it looked kind of rough-hewn compared to the smooth lines of the rest of the house, and painting it white just made that stand out more. With gray paint on the trim around the windows, and with the vinyl fascia trim in place, the house looks almost done from the outside. (What is left? The front door is yet to be painted, the lights on the side of the door haven't arrived yet. There will be a basketweave trellis around the bottom, and an ugly gas tank I'll have to figure out how to hide.) Starting from the street side and working around:
Again, this is a view from the west looking east. Move north (left a bit), and it looks like the following picture.
For those
having orientation troubles, this is from the northwest looking
southeast. The street's on the right, the ocean is behind to the
left. And circling around to the east, a side view:
As always, the sun makes getting this shot difficult -- I'm usually down there in the morning, and in the winter the sun never gets that high, so a morning shot to the south and east will always be into the sun. Even with the polarizing filter this was the best I could do. It was nice to see that the white railing added the note that I hoped that it would. It's odd how this looks like a large house from some points of view (like this one) and not so very large from others -- like the following picture from the beach stairs and from the beach.
(It finally dawned on me that the "from the surf" pictures (a) weren't all that informative and (b) tended to include a lot of sand and sky, both of which are nice but need not waste so much download time.) From the dune line, it looks as follows:
Still to be done here: the walkway to the beach, the basketweave trellis, and the dog run. The walkway from the beach will extend from the lower deck, cutting into the current railing just to the left of the sliding doors. The dog run will be under the sliding glass doors and extend under the house a bit, where we'll have a doghouse.
Another view from the dune, and a final one from the road:
The drywall's up, and so the house looks more like a house. They haven't finished painting, so there's covering over the windows. I find it very difficult to photograph inside areas without a wide angle or fisheye lens, neither of which this camera has, so instead I've tried to take a series of pictures.
These three views look southeast/southwest. The wood doors are to the south. The series of windows to the left look out on the ocean. The thing in the plastic is the fireplace. The inner door to the right leads to the upstairs master bedroom. Turn a bit to the left (facing east more toward the ocean, and you see the following views.
As you're turning to the left, then looking right to left, you see to the extreme right the sliding door by the fireplace, then the row of windows on the ocean. In the middle picture, the windows again and another sliding door, this one from the dining room, which the picture shows the right-hand side of. The smaller picture to the left shows the dining room and my office, which is to the left. My office is next to the kitchen area, which will be clearer in the next set of pictures.
On the left is, again, my office and a part of the dining room. In the middle is the kitchen. On the left is just about all of the kitchen area, the skylight over the kitchen, and the "doorway" is the dumbwaiter shaft.
Turn
some more, and there's the entrance/two-story foyer. The doorway
on the right is, again, the dumbwaiter shaft. The open area is
the foyer, there will be a railing there eventually. Next trip:
Saturday, 24 January. It's probably only a month more to go!