tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79427121628978214012024-03-05T20:05:51.108-06:00Projects, progress, thoughts, stuffThis is a place where I will post progress on projects, thoughts, ideas, pictures, and whatever else I feel like posting at any time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger219125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942712162897821401.post-38775752490934400272019-11-10T07:25:00.000-06:002019-11-24T16:16:54.759-06:00Some pictures:<br />
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Last Thanksgiving weekend, (Thanksgiving of 2017), my wife and I made a
trip to southern Louisiana to do a final cleaning out of her fathers
house before the closing of the sale. We flew down to New Orleans,
rented a car and drove to Houma. We had arranged for a Penske truck
rental for the trip back to Minnesota not knowing exactly what was left
there in the house and how much we would want to bring back. Probably
the vast majority of what we took could have been left there but having
the truck, we took more than we otherwise might have. Interestingly, we
also packed a truck of the same size, about 14', that St. Vincent's sent
with their two guys to help. In our initial walk through of the house
we would never have expected we would have filled two trucks like that
with what was left.<br />
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With the help of Claire's three uncles we managed to get the work done in surprisingly efficient manner. We even had some time for some enjoyable socializing, spending a memorable evening further south down the bayou where some of them still live and where Claire grew up, where the houses are all built on stilts eight feet in the air and in reminiscing of the past, time isn't marked in years or decades but with names like Juan or Rita or Andrew.<br />
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We were there only three days and then on the road with our rented yellow truck.<br />
Among the many things we recovered, most of which were probably unimportant, there were hundreds of family pictures, childhood rag dolls but most importantly, I thought, some paintings her father did so many years ago.<br />
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Leaves one wondering about the passing of time, possessions, why we make art, what we leave behind and what it will be like for someone who will be going through our possessions after I we are gone and how much of it will be thrown away or hauled to a Goodwill store.<br />
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In the interest of preserving things of value for as long as possible, as long as my pinterest page is up, a small gallery of the few paintings that survived the life and floods of southern Louisiana will be available for viewing<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/jhuisman/the-art-of-robert-j-boudreaux-jr/" target="_blank"> here. The art work of the late great Robert J. Boudreaux Jr.</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942712162897821401.post-17508042049578345272018-02-03T15:23:00.002-06:002018-02-03T15:24:12.017-06:00Blog post, new gallery, old project: Gazebo built around a huge rock fireplaceUploading some pictures into the <a href="http://huismanconcepts.com/custom-home-galleries/" target="_blank">new galleries</a> of a project we completed a few years back. It is a gazebo or screen house built around a huge rock fireplace.<br />
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This was a <a href="http://huismanconcepts.com/gazebo-built-around-a-huge-rock-fireplace/" target="_blank">pretty cool little project </a>constructed mostly around the massive fireplace and base footings which were built by Mike Braun of Ely.<br />
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More pictures in the gallery here: <a href="http://huismanconcepts.com/gazebo-built-around-a-huge-rock-fireplace/">http://huismanconcepts.com/gazebo-built-around-a-huge-rock-fireplace/</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942712162897821401.post-23311298887047385982018-02-02T07:16:00.001-06:002018-02-02T16:25:39.210-06:00Rebuilding the websiteFor the last year or so I have been working on rebuilding the <a href="http://huismanconcepts.com/">huismanconcepts.com</a> website.<br />
I think for now I am going to leave out a lot of the text that was in the old site, people mostly want to look at pictures anyway. Maybe eventually I can write some new text to put back in.<br />
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I'm sure there are some website people out there who would have something to say about that line of thinking but I don't get a lot of my contacts through the website or google searches, mostly a website for me is more like a business card or a brochure, just something we need to have.<br />
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The old website required me to load all my pictures to facebook and access those galleries for the website which was a tedious process and required all the wordpress plugins to be working right etc.<br />
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Anyway, I am not a web developer but I like to do things myself so, as crude as it may be, that will have to be how it is...<br />
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So, the new home building galleries for Huisman Concepts are here. http://huismanconcepts.com/custom-home-galleries/<br />
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I have some new pictures as well as some older projects that need to be added yet. I have not been keeping up well with current projects...<br />
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Days are getting noticeably longer though we still have February ahead of us... Seems to be plenty of snow everywhere this year if you are in to that sort of thing...<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942712162897821401.post-69968482278900159172016-10-04T18:56:00.000-05:002016-10-04T18:56:02.631-05:00Interesting stuff going on...I am fortunate to have had a few of my pieces selected for a couple upcoming art exhibits.<br />
One piece was chosen for the <a href="http://www.flowartspace.com/" target="_blank">Flow Art Space Gallery</a> group showing which will be one of many galleries and studios open for viewing during the <a href="http://www.saintpaulartcrawl.org/" target="_blank">25th Anniversary St. Paul Art Crawl</a>.<br />
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they are located at: 308 Prince Street, Suite 226 St Paul, MN 55101,<br />(right next to the <a href="http://chsfield.com/">http://chsfield.com</a>/ where the Saints play).<br />
I think I am on about page 15 of this <a href="https://issuu.com/saintpaulartcrawl/docs/f16_catalog-issuu/1" target="_blank">catalogue</a>. <br />
So that is cool. Even though it is just one piece, I feel pretty good about being a part of that show.<br />
It should be a great few days, lots of great art, walking around the Lowertown area there, and great places to eat.<br />
The whole thing runs October 14th, 15th. & 16th.<br />
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And then over in Minneapolis, the <a href="http://bvasmn.com/" target="_blank">Burnsville Visual Arts Society</a> will be having a<a href="https://www.facebook.com/burnsvillevas/photos/a.186229164748535.38166.181660515205400/1209409119097196/?type=3&theater" target="_blank"> show</a> in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/burnsvillevas/photos/a.186229164748535.38166.181660515205400/1209409119097196/?type=3&theater" target="_blank">Northrup King Building. This runs October 6th through the 15th.</a><br />
They have accepted a couple of my pieces for that show.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942712162897821401.post-37431051823281952502016-09-23T17:46:00.002-05:002016-09-23T17:46:47.112-05:00"In Flight", 15" x 30" oil on canvas boardIt's been quite a while since I have worked much with color.<br />
I recently decided to drag out the oils and see what would come of it.<br />
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I had been playing around with this idea with some sketches: <br />
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...and in colored pencil:<br />
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It is enjoyable working with the creamy and their intense colors. I am not sure I am completely happy with this piece but I am ready to keep going.<br />
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Finally getting to some of the finishing details on this project we have
been working on for the past ... well it's a lot closer to being a year
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Looking through the kitchen area to the living room. Waiting for some granite counter-tops and appliances to finish off the cabinet area. A coat of sealer on the stone pizza oven on the left really deepens the color of the rock.<br />
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A few shots of the master bedroom area on the 2nd floor... amazing detail work with the Doug Fir trim, the rustic painted wood ceiling and the oak flooring.<br />
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Quite a view out over the lake from here...<br />
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One wall of the master bedroom was done with reclaimed barn wood. A nice touch.<br />
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The master bath is coming along...<br />
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...and as much as I would like to, I can hardly take credit for any of this work even though my name is on it all. The credit all goes to the three great guys that I am lucky to have working for me, Scott Quick, Chris Olson and Greg Dammann. Tile work was done by Ken Kochendorfer, plumbing by Ron Dubbin and electrical by Cunningham Electric.<br />
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Consistently in the 50s now overnight. I saw a hummingbird at the feeder briefly yesterday but I think they are mostly gone now. The days are getting noticeably shorter. I know it happens every year but it still seems uniquely significant... In Northern Minnesota, winter is always either here or just around the corner. Summer is a brief event.<br />
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Because of the size, I had to try something different. The smooth Bristol board that I like doesn't come in sizes this large so this project was done on 1/4" hardboard. I applied about 10 coats of gesso and then sanded it smooth. I should have paid more attention to the sanding, there were a few rough spots, but where it was the smoothest, it took the graphite like a dream.<br />
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More of my pencil renderings can be seen <a href="http://huismanconcepts.com/artwork-gallery/?aid1=386768710764" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942712162897821401.post-28035690363529432272016-04-03T08:28:00.000-05:002016-04-07T22:46:18.439-05:00masonry heater/pizza oven, bell-coteOngoing project developments, we have a pizza oven/masonry heater installed by <a href="http://solidrockmasonry.com/" target="_blank">Solid Rock Masonry</a>:<br />
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Above is the start of the project showing the firebricks and the structure and below is the finished unit with the stone and firebox, oven and wood box. This is in the kitchen of the home.<br />
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A shot here of the "bell cote" with the gable shingles and Doug Fir knee braces:<br />
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...and a distant shot of that same gable end:<br />
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This area is the master bedroom on the second level with balcony doors and windows overlooking the lake:<br />
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The siding is going up on the other side of the building and some of the windows installed.<br />
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The ice was starting to darken up just a bit last week but a little bit of snow makes it appear that winter still has some way to go on Burntside Lake:<br />
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And it's looking like we will not see much in the way of ice melting temps for the next week or so...<br />
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The roof is all sheathed and "dried in". <br />
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Most of the fascia, soffets and roof edging is done: <br />
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Here is a shot of a Doug Fir timber knee brace and beam system under the garage eve:<br />
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Some warm weather as I write this, in the 50s and sunny, Saturday March 12th. Above average temps and it has been a mild winter but we will take it as it comes. I'm sure winter is not over yet...<br />
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Building the "look-outs" around the eves:<br />
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My son, Patrick, took a picture of this Barred Owl by our driveway last week. An amazing setting blended into the snowy trees like this.<br />
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he lake was not yet frozen, (it was by far the latest I have seen it freeze over), but we were starting to get some snow and wintry weather.<br />
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A few days of crane time were required to put this puzzle of a truss system together. <br />
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In November there was a lot of work being done that couldn't be seen, demo and reconstruction in the existing basement and rebuilding that floor structure and then, finally, the framing could begin:<br />
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...and one exciting day, the roof and floor trusses arrived. We made sure the hill was sanded well and we had a great "can do" sort of a truck driver who strapped the old tire chains on and backed right in there and slid them off the back of his truck...<br />
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Once the dirt is filled in, compacted and leveled nicely, the foam insulation goes down on the ground and the tubes for the in-floor heat are stapled to the foam insulation. When everything is done, hot water will be pumped through the tubes to heat the concrete slab floor.<br />
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...and then we are ready for pouring the concrete slab. The pictures here are a couple days after the slab was poured and we had gotten a little rain... Now we are ready to start framing walls.<br />
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Back to present time, it is winter and we had our first below zero weather over the past week or so... I think it reached about 26 below a few days ago which seems cold this year but is really pretty normal for January. It has been unseasonably warm and we haven't gotten a lot of snow yet but I have a feeling we will see a late blast of real winter before it is all over...<br />
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The first post was <a href="http://huismanconcepts.com/late-summer-project-start/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
After the digging was done, the forms are put in place for the footings for the addition and garage parts of the project:<br />
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Those footing forms are filled with concrete and then the <a href="http://www.standardicf.net/" target="_blank">insulated concrete forms</a>, (<a href="http://www.standardicf.net/techinfo.php" target="_blank">ICF</a>s) go up. They are basically blocks made of foam insulation that stack up to form an inside and outside layer of insulation that will stay in place once the concrete is poured between them resulting in a solid 8" thick concrete wall with foam insulation on both sides. Here the forms are being put in place:<br />
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Then using a boom truck to place the concrete, the ICF forms are filled and leveled off:<br />
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The foundation walls are now ready for back-filling once the bracing is stripped away:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942712162897821401.post-17565487843708888412016-01-02T09:01:00.001-06:002016-01-02T09:01:16.892-06:00Late summer project startSome progress pictures of a project we started in the late summer of the past year, (2015, seems like only yesterday...).<br />
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It is a partial tear down of an existing structure and then a rebuild.<br />
Here are a couple pictures of the garage and part of the house as it looked before we started:<br />
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Here part of the house is gone and the entire garage has been removed: <br />
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...and the digging for the footings is complete:<br />
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Things look a little different out there today on this second day of 2016, but at least the sun looks like it intends to shine for a while...seems like it has been weeks since we have seen much of that.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942712162897821401.post-5234701133560979222015-12-31T21:58:00.003-06:002015-12-31T21:58:41.151-06:00Happy New YearsI found myself alone at the fire tonight.<br /> It's the yearly New years bonfire.<br /> It is warm for a December 31st night, a balmy 15 degrees above zero, (F). <br /> A blanke<span class="text_exposed_show">t of clouds kept the stars from sight but offered in exchange, some very light flakes floating down around me. <br /> The wind picked up for a while which help my poorly fueled fire for a while.</span><br />
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I thought about an old, old tune by Bruce Cockburn called simply "Christmas Song"... <br />
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Seems like it is often hard to find good solid heavy wood screen doors that are just right for the project and
so, when the need comes up for one, I usually just build it myself. Over the
past year I built four screen doors. I'm sure that is a record number for me by a
good margin. Mostly they are very simple, solid, cedar doors. One had a
little more interesting elements and then one was for a different
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For a nice screen porch on this log lake cabin:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942712162897821401.post-38090437206345901152015-11-29T07:31:00.001-06:002015-11-29T07:31:02.772-06:00Old refurbished sauna buildingA new gallery on my website:<br />
This is an old sauna building that we re-sided with log siding to make
it look like a real log building,. We also refurbished the deck and the
interior. The project was completed in 2004 near Ely Minnesota. The
exterior is Western Red Cedar logs and the interior is cedar paneling
and benches.<br />
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I was stumbling around the railroad tracks in Minneapolis one evening this past summer...<br />
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I had the opportunity this past summer on a couple of occasions, to spend a little time around the railroad tracks in the U of M area watching some baseball games at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebert_Field" target="_blank">Siebert Field</a>.<br />
Having a little time to kill before a game, trains and tracks being things that seem to call to me, I wandered over to the other side of the dirt road behind the ball field.<br />
Climbing over a couple flat cars and moving closer to the center of the grouping of tracks offered what I thought to be an interesting perspective of the old <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/comogreenvillage.info/como-history/home/places/bunge-elevator" target="_blank">Bunge Building.</a><br />
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It seemed like it would make a good subject for a larger scale pencil rendering:<br />
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Winter came at the end of this week.<br />
After another week in the 50s, rainy, after an unseasonable warm extended fall, the temperature dropped and the wind picked up and the snow, though just flurries, and feel of winter hit one seriously and painfully in the face. On Thursday afternoon, (11/19/15), I ventured down to the waters edge on a project site on Burntside Lake before I left for the day and snapped this shot. Three foot rollers and whitecaps and stinging snow and wind. The kind of thing that must be felt to be appreciated. A picture does not fully convey the feel of the moment.<br />
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This is a building I built many many years ago. It has to be over 25 years ago now. Back then we didn't have digital cameras and phone cameras, (or phones for that matter), that were with us all the time and sometimes pictures just never got taken... <br />
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It is a very large building at least in footprint. I think it is something like 65' wide and 120' long. <br />
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My partner in business at the time and I spent a summer driving every day to Embarrass and carving logs with chain saws and chisels and axes... The scribing and fitting of logs is a rather tedious process and hard work. In my prime, (as I said, this was a LONG time ago), I could get two 30' long logs picked out and set up and scribed and carved and fit in place in one day and maybe start on a third. One round of logs on this building took about a week to get done if two of us were working on it steady. So for a whole summer I drove down there every day and "pounded notches" as we used to say, sweating it out in the Embarrass sun and sand flies till the log work was done. The roof and finish work were done by others so after that summer it became just a place I drive by once in a while.<br />
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I finally took the time to stop on this beautiful autumn day to take a few pictures:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942712162897821401.post-48651388017947078442015-09-25T19:56:00.002-05:002015-09-25T19:56:55.964-05:00A Screen HouseThis summer we got sidetracked for a little while on this screen house that ended up being a pretty cool project. The log home was already there and the desire was to build either a screen porch addition or some sort of external shelter. Designing something that would be attached was difficult without risking giving up the character of the log home as it was so we opted for a stand alone structure. Well, not completely stand alone, it was connected with a deck.<br />
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Here is the house before we got started. You can see some of the footings to the left/center, 12" concrete piers: <br />
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And here is a shot from pretty much the same position on the of the new deck and the log supports and roof in place. We took off the old cedar decking and re-framed the deck extending it out to flow right into the screen house. The new decking is <a href="http://www.activupdate.com/content/midwestlumberinc.com/files/IPE%20F%26B%2011-3-06.pdf" target="_blank">Ipe</a>. (More info on Ipe <a href="http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/ipe/" target="_blank">here</a>).<br />
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The logs are all Northern White Cedar.<br />
Finishing off the "Knee-wall" and ready for screen:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7942712162897821401.post-51689943072514508572015-08-31T19:34:00.001-05:002015-08-31T19:34:11.207-05:00New gallery in the custom home sectionI just posted a new album in the Custom Homes gallery of my website.<br />
It is a small one room design on a lake near Ely Minnesota.<br />
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