My latest project. Woodworking on a slightly larger scale.

[Larry Edgerton]

I thought some may get a kick out of this project. Its a hard one to get pictures of as it is actually taller than it is wide. It has 36' ceilings from the living room floor. Its only about seven thousand feet, but it has a lot of cubic feet!

The picture is actually of the master bedroom taken from the downstairs floor.217052 From the living room floor it takes 5 sections of scaffold with a ladder on top to reach the peak. Thats me up on top, and I am getting to old for this stuff!

Larry

[Peter Quinn]

I'm too old to get high on the job anymore. :eek: Do you bungee jump to get down? How do you heat a house with ceilings that high?

[Jim Matthews]

What's it like, living in a cathedral?

[Richard Wolf]

Looks good Larry. Here's a word of advice, carry an extra pencil, you are sure to drop the first, and it's a long way down to get another.

[Ryan Hellmer]

"only 7 thousand feet" nice to see how the other half lives.

[Larry Edgerton]

Peter, I'm 55, and my knees let me know this is not something I am going to be able to pull off much longer. The house is in the process of being insulated right now, 2" of spray foam up against the roof sheeting and the remainder if the 14" TJI rafters are being netted and filled with cellulose.

The wall behind where the picture is taken from is North facing and all glass, looking right at Lake Michigan and the cold winds that that brings. The first floor walls are 13 inch white oak logs, which transfer cold fairly well as they are so dense. I don't expect that it is going to be too cheap to heat. It has infloor heat throughout the whole house that helps, but the design is just not efficient. I just a carpenter.......

Richard, I may want to pick your brain if I get stumped on the stairs. They have some ugly cedar bell logs, logs with the part of the stump on the bottom, that they want me to incorporate into the stairs and I don't want to. They are totally wrong for this house, and whoever took a drawknife to them stole all of the character from them anyway. I have to come up with a design so cool that they totally forget the silly cedar logs. Given the character of the house and all of its beam work I think some post and beam sort of affair with wedged through mortices would be a better fit but I am not committed to any design just yet. Its an L shaped stair with one landing and turn. I have a lot of work to do before I get to that, I like to do the stairs last, so maybe something will click. If I still can not see them done when it is time I'll get ahold of you.

Larry

[Richard Wolf]

Larry. I'm always up for a road trip!

[Richard Wolf]

I ran across some custom carved newel posts made by a member. They sure have character, maybe they will work for you.
http://stromcarver.com/newel-posts

[Neil Brooks]

Larry:

I've been camping out in there, since framing went up. I dare you to find me ;)

[Michael O'Neill]

Wow Larry, thats really cool but what are you doing for fall protection? Us old guys dont land as well as we used too.......

[Jim Becker]

Quite the project, Larry!

[Jim Matthews]

Wow Larry, thats really cool but what are you doing for fall protection? Us old guys dont land as well as we used too.......

I'm much better at falling, now that I'm pushin' fifty.
It's the getting up that's harder.

[scott vroom]

You 50's-something kids are making me feel old. I just turned 61 and am wondering how much longer before I have to lay down my toolbelt and start making furniture :)

[Dave Mura]

It looks great!
http://chdsolutions.com/img/11d867796d85db8cad5280ac44cec7c1.jpghttp://chdsolutions.com/img/a57d48399922b03419153a9760c5ce53.jpghttp://chdsolutions.com/img/beda24c1e1b46055dff2c39c98fd6fc1.jpg

[Larry Edgerton]

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I ran across some custom carved newel posts made by a member. They sure have character, maybe they will work for you.
http://stromcarver.com/newel-posts

Richard

The fellow that carved these panels for me is working with me on this project as well, but that link that you posted has some cool stuff. I like the wood spirit carvings. I figure he will do some work on the stairs.

My fall protection is that I own the company and I do all the high stuff myself.:p

Larry

[David Hostetler]

I seriously suspect the bill to heat that thing would be higher than my mortgage.