The Palamino House

Week 25 – (Tongue and) groove is in the heart!

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What sold us on the Palomino plan http://www.houseplans.com/plan/2587-square-feet-3-bedrooms-2-bathroom-modern-house-plan-2-garage-32953 by Robert Nebolon, aside from the mid-century look, were the vaulted tongue and groove ceilings! Our previous McMansion had two story ceilings in the family room, which was a little over the top. Trying to change a lightbulb was an EVENT! The ceilings on the main floor start at 8′ 1″ and gradually go up. It’s one thing to have vaulted ceilings with drywall. Add some tongue and groove paneling to them and the ceiling becomes a focal point of the whole house. Warm and inviting, with lots of character.

As mentioned in previous posts we decided on an unadvertised product from Duragroove that is sort of a white washed prefinished knotty pine. When the product arrived it surpassed our expectations. Really beautiful stuff. There is going to be some challenges trimming it out since, unlike real Eichler houses, the paneling runs parallel with the structural beams of the house. When the tongue and groove is spanning between two beams, at least ONE of them is going to receive a rip.

Along with the paneling going up the master bath floor got tiled, the hallway bath got a Ditra treatment, and the garage got stuffed with interior doors, exterior doors, windows, closet sliders, and LOTs of tile.

Liam’s room is one of the first to receive the full T&G treatment!

Hello trellis beam. You don’t look so well. I got news for the trim guys…this one is getting replaced

Trellis members on south elevation

One of the areas where we are going to have to figure out the trim. I found some cool 3/4″ square stain grade pine trim pieces at Lowes that might fit the bill

The beautiful T&G in the guest bedroom

Another view of the guest room paneling where the structural beam splits the ceiling

T&G almost looks pink sometimes but it goes GREAT with the “Utterly beige” selected for the walls

View of Liam’s big window and the paneling installed. Going to be a great room to grow up in!

Lot’s of T&G left to install…

More paneling has made it’s way onto the ceiling in the family room. Quite the intricate scaffolding system the trim guys have created

A ton of cuts on Saturday to prep for Monday morning install

Gotta lock your stuff up around here, as we’ve found out the hard way. I can appreciate the engineering that goes into creating scaffolding from scrap wood pieces and ladders. I just wish they wouldn’t nail/screw into our new, gorgeous Douglas Fir beams. They will get covered by 1x6s eventually, but not on that end! <sigh>

It’s hard to see but there is a string that goes from the peak of the eave all the way to the other end of the house so tongue and groove can get installed perfectly straight at the ridge

Ridge paneling is a work in progress. Gotta get this part right!

Our Eichler siding has become quite the wood shaving collector. Useful stuff! 😉

Lots of ripping going on…..

Paneling in the family room

Ditra gets installed in the hallway bath

Tile gets installed in laundry room. Lighting not so good today. Quite the poo-poo weather weekend again…

So this is our biggest issue I’m dealing with right now. I’m just not feeling the ultra white beams with the vintage white paneling. Considering the financial hole we are in we might just leave as-is and revisit in five years when its time to stain again

A closer view of the ultra white beams next to the tongue and groove

More Versalok ready to go on the 140′ retaining wall
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Detail view of the now FULLY populated trellis area on the north elevation

View of the makeshift scaffolding system the trim guys created

12×24″ floor tile got installed in the master bath. Not much character here, but nice clean lines

Close-up view of bronze aluminum clad windows

Weathershield baby! While these are at the low end of the spectrum price-wise they are at the high end of the spectrum for energy performance

The huge window for the master bath. Can’t wait to see this installed!

The garage is STUFFED FULL of doors, windows, and tile waiting to be installed

Windows for north and west corners of master bedroom

Window sills cut, stacked and ready to be installed

Another view of master bath floor tile

Zo-e shield coating should help with energy bills and keep our cork floors from fading. That crazy looking thing on the right is the grinder pump. I nice $2,300 bill we were not expecting!

The 3×3 tile “3rds” from a local wholesaler doesn’t look like much now but we think it’s going to really POP in Liam’s hallway bath

The $12 a square foot tile for the kitchen backsplash. It comes in single color sheets that will have to be broken apart to assemble a multi-colored pattern