The Pavilion

 Triangular Windows!

 The steel roof was completed beautifully, with each 
piece needing to be painstakingly measured and cut 
individually (Thank you Darcy and Dave at Focus 
Roofing!), and so we were finally ready to install 

all the windows and doors:

  

Kevin and Stephanie installing our triangular 

windows on the dome surface using a pallet 

on tractor forks to reach.

 

We worked with local window manufacturers Desmond 
Industries to come up with a triangular window/skylight 
design we all felt would work. 

Since the windows are on a steep slope, we designed 
windows that would be flashed on 2 sides, and have an 
overhanging glass edge on the low side to shed snow, 
ice and water, an oldschool skylight technique.


The Siding!

 

 

Here you can see the dome from the South with all 

the windows and the sliding glass door to the patio 

nicely installed!

At the same time, we started installing the reverse 

board and batten fir siding, which you can see Paul 

here working on in the 38 degree heat.

 First, we ripped all the 6" boards down into 4" and 2" 

widths to create the profile we desired, and stacked 

them so that the air could cure them before installing. 

Then, with the help of family and friends (Thank 

you Jen Weih, Marianne Bos and Joan Schmidt!), 

we stained front and back and all sides of each 

board...which only took about two weeks!

 

 

Ladder love...

 

 The rough-hewn, black stained fir will also be applied in wider, 

horizontal strips to cover the facia, above.

 

View from the North looking South down the Valley. 

Note the 2 skylights we installed in the addition: 

one in the kitchen, the other in the bath.  

Thanks for those, Ross!

 The siding crew enjoying a cold one (or three) at the end of a 

very hot day of installing black siding in the sun. 

Thanks Paul, Hank, Stephanie and Keith!

 The dome nearing the final stages of completing the exterior....

just a bit more siding to go!

Thanks to friends and family who made the trip up this year to pitch in and help: Ron and Joan Schmidt, Jen Weih, Kahn Lee, Marianne Bos, Suzanne Ward, and Brendan Tang, we could not have done this without your help!!

And of course a million thanks to Jane Irwin and Ross Hill, 

project patrons and amazing friends.