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Much better! The house really needed the breathing room created by loosing the retaining wall. Have you cleared the site to the radiused edge on all sides of the house? The original radial planned lot has been staked. Currently the North and West areas of the plan have been completed. I am planning...

Correct. The exterior only soffit's are 3/8" fir striated plywood. The interior ceilings are 3/8" mahogany plywood. With the exception of phase 3 carport enclosure which became the master bedroom. The ceiling in this space is flat and the plywood material is soffit textured plywood. When W...

I have door hardware close-ups that I would like to share. I was very fortunate that the local salvage/ restoration company had several parts and pieces of hardware that where missing. The best find however was the mint bathroom casement window crank assembly. The Heritage Company just happen to hav...

McCartney was designed in three phases. There are two types of perforated blocks used in McCartney. The First Phase as designed is identical perforation to the Winn house. I have all of the molds used to fabricate the blocks, and the patterns that where set into the mold to create the fabricated blo...

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What is your study / need for the sizing of the perforated blocks of the Kalamazoo & Galesburg houses? Just curious? I'm jumping in the thread a bit late.

thanks,

John

Dave - great article! Hopeful we can hit the 9 year mark with the McCartney as you have with the Nelson/Kirkpatrick..... True Passion! FYI - if you were to tune the vermiculite finish a plasterer by the name of Will Moss is just around the corner on Rambling Road. I have used him on several plasteri...

Dan - Thank You for the kind words and vote of confidence.....extremely stressful project just as you know because of your NO heat situation. To add to the stress I started pulling the mahogany ceiling panels and insulating the ceiling so the living conditions for the past few weeks were sketchy. Wh...

UPDATE 1.The existing boiler (Munchkin 140m) floor mounted unit was removed and replaced with a Slant/Fin VSL-160C wall mounted boiler. The existing 40 gallon water heater was also removed. The compact and efficient wall hung Slant/Fin boiler will serve the 1. radiant floor and the 2. domestic hot w...

Lot's of high winds, rain but no property damage....

Tom = God Awful, hope we can all poke around your home & post such positive & inspiring comments! Classic Form knocked a home run with 9yrs of blood sweat & tears & one can only imagine monetary outlay. The commit & dedication, absolutely! New Rules wright chatters! ----- drop th...

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Eric, we recently purchased the McCartney House. The owner's built 60% of the listed furniture. They never executed the chairs. Margo has searched Archives for the missing Chair that was called out on several of the plan sheets for the McCartney house. Would love to build two for McCartney someday.

Currently using the Falu Rodfarg Red on the restoration of a 1880's Michigan Barn. Product is available in the US thru solvent free paint. Additionally the using the Linseed Red Stain Wax #50549 as an almost exact match for the cherokee colored floors in the McCartney house. Testing out the Linseed ...

Classic Form - if you want to swing thru just PM me & I'll share my phone #. Dleach - CorTen was purchased from Alro Steel. 2 sheets were purchased, the balance I am currently using for radial drive / lot approach as seen on original site plan. Look up Alro on line or a major steel supplier in y...

I have 3 photo's from last year as I was working on this. Who do I forward to have them posted??

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