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Koss Residence
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Framing and concrete work are completed on the main house. The pool steel is in place and shot-crete is blown in. Next door, Richard McAniff's project gets underway.
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May 2, 2000 Excavation begins next door. |
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May 2, 2000 Ray (project manager for both projects), Doug (next-door supervisor), and Mr X. have a discussion on Doug's elaborate "construction porch". |
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May 2, 2000 Waterproofing and drain for walkway and "water-feature" in courtyard. |
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May 2, 2000 Beam is stripped - but still supported by scaffolding.
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May 3, 2000 Beginning framing on Chris's bedroom and guest bedroom. |
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May 3, 2000 View from guest bedroom. |
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May 3, 2000 House from the dock. |
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May 5, 2000 Guest and Chris bedroom framing. |
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May 5, 2000 Living room ceiling joists. |
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May 12, 2000 Lunch spread for our "topping-out" party. The house is all framed now! |
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May 12, 2000 Pipes coming into the mechanical room for the pool equipment. |
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May 12, 2000 Climbing the rafters in Chris's room. |
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May 17, 2000 While cleaning up the site, we found a Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) nest. Mike Flohr carefully marked out the area with paint and boards. Even though we had some big machinery just a few feet from the nest, the parents did not give up on it and the babies hatched on May 25th.
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May 17, 2000 North-west corner of the house (study on main floor, guest room and Chris's room above). |
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May 17, 2000 The "super-highway". We have room for two lanes of traffic in our north setback - great access to the lake if we decide to bring a drive down (current plan is grass and plantings only). |
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May 17, 2000 The study has a south-facing glass wall into the courtyard. The center section will hold an operable sliding glass door. |
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May 17, 2000 View from just inside the front door, looking along the main first-floor hallway to the north. The stairs at the end lead up to the guest bedroom and Chris's room. When the house is complete, there will be a "bridge" spanning the space on the second floor. |
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May 17, 2000 View from the front entrance. This is our "entry-hall". The stairway to the second floor that is here now is temporary - the final stair is build from steel stringers and will connect into the second floor bridge. |
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May 17, 2000 Dining room (facing south). |
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May 17, 2000 This won't be a view you'll normally be able to see. I'm standing on top of scaffolding at the east end of the living room, looking back to the west. |
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May 17, 2000 Site cleanup (Killdeer nest is visible just behind the loader's cab). |
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May 17, 2000 North living room wall. The opening at the bottom is for a fireplace. The slot above will bring reflected light into the living room. The final product will look something like the computer generated image below (from the Design Web).
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May 17, 2000 North end of pool room has concrete block-outs for ventilation and diving board plinth. |
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May 17, 2000 Chris's bedroom window. |
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May 17, 2000 Spa plumbing. |
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May 17, 2000 Pool steel and piping in place. |
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May 17, 2000 A couple of boats from the "marina" at the south end of Cozy Cove. |
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May 17, 2000 Excavation progress on Richard's lot. |
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May 17, 2000 Scaffolding from beam is gone. |
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May 17, 2000 More fun toys. The top one reminds me the Flintstone's car! |
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May 17, 2000 We haven't done anything here yet - this is how the driveway looks now. It's taken quite a beating with dump trucks and other heave vehicles running over it these last six months. |
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May 18, 2000 Chris in the media room. The movie screen will descend from ceiling at the far end of the room. |
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May 18, 2000 Barb and Steve bring their new boat (Andante) to our dock to take us on a cruise. Happily, she fits in our dock slip - but only just. Click on the image below to see the full size image of the Seattle skyline from Lake Union (167K bytes).
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May 23, 2000 Spunstrand ductwork installation at north pool wall. |
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May 23, 2000 Chris is thrilled to receive his Krekow Jennings customized hard hat.
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May 24, 2000 Now that the steel and plumbing are complete in the pool, it has to be filled with concrete. Concrete (or shotcrete) is sprayed through a hose under 500 lbs of air pressure. It takes over 90 yards of concrete to finish the job (which all has to be complete in one day for structural integrity)...it was a very long day getting this done.
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May 24, 2000 Spunstrand in place (and Easter-Egg'ed). |
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May 25, 2000 Here I am, swimming in the deep end (some might say I'm off the deep end). |
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May 25, 2000 Kent and Mike inspect the spa wall. |
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May 25, 2000 Mock-up of pool ceiling. We're using HardiPlank boards (in the final installation they'll be stained/painted - here they are untreated) over a layer of Tectum wall panel (Tectum makes a sound absorbing material that looks like shredded wheat or compressed string). Protruding through the ceiling we have an array of custom-made light fixtures that use a low-voltage bulb behind a solid hemisphere of cast glass. |
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May 25, 2000 Stone samples for the pool deck. We're using a variegated blue stone in a running bond pattern. The large (and thicker) pieces will be used as coping around the pool. |
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May 25, 2000 Contest: Explain this image. What is it, and what's special about it? |
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May 25, 2000 Rhododendrons in bloom along our south property line. |
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May 25, 2000 The "front" yard is cleaned up. |
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May 25, 2000 Concrete stairs coming off of the deck. |
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May 25, 2000 Concrete-closet under the deck. |
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May 25, 2000 Spa filled with concrete. |
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