DeJoux House

I know it's been a while since I updated, but frankly very little has actually happened.   Apart from the end of year summary, we've done nothing but sit by the pond and marvel at our property, which is beautiful in every season. The front of the house The back of the house The view from the porch Across the lake in the snow The view from our field, looking to the house Daniel bought the most beautiful fire pit...simple, modern, elegant.  We spent the whole weekend last weekend sat around it in the snow.  I can't wait until the pond is good for skating...It's going to be the best place to warm aching feet after a day of ice skating.   Construction update There were a number of delays getting prices and getting started.  The major problem was that Eight Point Construction became busy and told us they could not start until May/June 2011.  This put us in rather a difficult position.  We had to go back to the drawing board and b...

Memorial day weekend was a frenzy. Daniel and I drove over to Pine Plains, NY to see if we could find a place that could supply wide plank, old growth floors to patch our original floors. The big challenge is that our floors are not your ordinary floors as they are very wide plank, up to 22 inches in places and both structural (they are the floor) as well as aesthetic. Our first stop turned out to be our best stop. Antique and Vintage Woods specialize in exactly what we were looking for...(well, not exactly. They'd just sold exactly what we were looking for)...We walked in with a small sample and met a youngish guy called Andrew (which turned out to be our second piece of luck that day). Andrew shaved off the end of the wood and immediately identified the wood as Antique Heart Pine by the smell and the closeness of the grain. Apparently this is a type of wood that grows an inch in diameter every 30 years and has not been available for over 100 years because we used it all up...