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Hope I'm not boring ya'll. My husband built these while I worked the evening shift as a RN.

Not boring at all....

In fact, I'd like to know where your husband got the plans for the boats? Very nice... boats and pond.

GaryTexas

He stated he got the plans from a magazine. The magazine had a picture and a drawing of the blue print. He's looking for the magazine now. Will let you know if he finds it.

Gary
We can't find the name of the magazine but the article was written by Gil Gilpatrick called Building A Strip Canoe. It was publish by DeLorme Publishing Co.in 1985. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the effort.

I'll do a google to see if I can find the article.

Thanks again. GaryTexas

j smith

One of the best projects yet!!!

Gary Texas
When you find the info let us know.

Otto

dream over. renovation time (before shots on page 1 of this rag.....)











after shots will follow...after..

will have a bluish asc panel metal roof to replace the old comp asphalt, and certainteed cement lap to replace the rotten weyerhauser hardboard siding. couple new decks, carport....guess we'll stay a while.

Honest, Dave...my first question was gonna be "cementitious siding and metal roof?"
Outstanding project. I wanna watch this one unfold...err...fold.

That's a big project DIED! Bet you can't wait to see it complete!
But then, IME they're never complete.

I found an intresting link where a guy documents with pic's how he built his conoe. http://www.aracnet.com/~ncglad/canoe/index.htm

And here's a link to Gil Gilpatrick's book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0899333494/ref=sib_dp_pt/105-0543176-4277211#reader-link

I'm glad you posted this Dave.

Forum members: Dave's place is gonna be beautiful when done. He only briefly mentioned that he is replacing the roof with a metal roof and going to cement lap siding - think fire resistant and long life to boot.

He is also going to be adding a large room addition that will be above a covered carport, decking around the house, etc. There is a laundry list of things that he is doing. His home is going to be drop dead gorgeous when done.

Also what you cannot see in the photos is that from his front porch area he has a view of his neighbors 5 acre pond. His property is surrounded on three sides by one of the largest ranches in El Dorado county (I think it's over 1,000 acres).

I'll be up next week Dave to see if you still have any of your sanity left (not that I'd be a very good judge of that but it's the thought that counts).

well thanks JHAP yer helpin me w/ the props. you must have rose colored glasses or something like that.

it's gonna be a much safer and more useable house, i wouldnt call it drop dead gorgeous. i actually like the dripping nail plywood ted kazinsky look, but my wife wont let me leave it like that.

looking forward to yer visit.

tar paper went on roof today as well as modified varge rafters, facia.....getting close to transformation. roofing probably next week, after the higher elevations are sided, trimmed out and painted.

so here's a question for you pondmeisters.

out of the 4 shown, which one do you like? it'l have white trim and the blue roof. have to tell the painter later tonight, not much time, but thought i'd throw it yer way.........





here's a couple shots of things to come.....i'm thinkin the certainteed siding and rough sawn spruce trim really looks nice.



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perhaps a new motif?.....or when the guys get bored on break time........

I vote Flying Vee Sitar siding

...need a little more description on the color combos, where they start/stop in the pic samples above, where they will be applied

the siding was put up pre-primed. the background blue gray color is the prime coat. those first two pics show 4 color swatches the painter put on the pre-primed siding this afternoon. there are two tan colors on the left versus the pale yellow and super light gray brown on the right.....these 4 colors DWIED and DIED picked out from those paper samples you can get.

one of these 4 colors will be used to paint all the siding on the walls. all window and door trim, facia etc will be painted white...the roof will be blue.

some of the guys here today said they liked the color of the primer, but with the blue roof i think it'd be HOWDY DOODY....THIS IS A BLUE HOUSE...so we opted for something similar to the original color scheme of the house.

this is as close a pic i could readily find showing the original siding color:

...agreed; and we surely don't want Howdy Doody having breakfast at IHOP.

nobody wanted to commit huh? understood. gonna see if painter has time to throw up a couple more samples tomorrow a.m. otherwise the exec. decision is made.

FYI, i wanted the upper left, wife wanted lower right, hey, what are friends and family for.......a couple friends chimed in for mine, another couple friends chimed in for the wife's ......DIEDs mother chimed in for the prime coat color......so we absorb all the input and compromise.....we picked the upper right but maybe a shade or two darker......its all good,

i'd rather be fishin.....

I think he was more of a Denny's kind of guy.

well its done. painter managed a couple more test spots this morning, DWIED and DIED agreed to disagree (DWIED won) and it'l be the upper right color but a little darker........specifically pittsburgh paint manor house brand color "pony tail".....cute huh...

too dark for pics tonight, portions of house already painted today

thanks for yer support guys

That was the one I liked!! Tell DWIED that she made a good call.
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Hey....who deleted my post? Theo???

I'se innocent.

brief update.....DWIED's always right.

i reckon it looks purty good.







that'l be that til the roof is on

i'll go back to my corner now.

Dave,
It looks great. I knew that WE picked out the right color combo.
Who's doing the work?

ok, in their defense......its a local contractor here running the carpentry, and he is doing a great job so far. not the cheapest guy in town, but he has a good journeyman crew who enjoy their work and they treat the project like their own homes. one good aspect is i'm able to go direct at his costs to suppliers and subs.

these are cool:



this is not cool: