Cedar Ridge Farm

Everything went well on September 1, and we moved our things into our new home. It was an easy move – we only had to transfer things a 1,000 feet down the hill. We moved most things in our mini...

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We’ve finally done it – we’ve gotten the house ready to move in! The children and I have worked non-stop during the last two months in order to have the house move-in ready. All the doors...

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I thought a short video showing the floors as they look with a coat of oil would be appropriate. So, here it is:  

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On Monday (1-11-2016) we put a second coat of oil on the upstairs floors, the stairway, the guest room floor, and the master bedroom floor, and we put the first coat of oil on the rest of the gre...

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On Sunday (1-10-2016) we did some more cleaning in order to get as much dust as we could cleaned up. Then, we were excited to start oiling – we just couldn’t wait! So, beginning upstairs in o...

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2016/01/beginning-to-oil-floors.html

I made a walk through video of the house yesterday. I thought that some of you would like to see it with painted walls and sanded hardwood floors. I hope you enjoy it.

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2016/01/video-1-9-2016-house-walk-through.html

Across the hallway from the main bathroom is the pantry. This small room is intended for the storage of canned goods and other food items (including grains and beans stored in air-tight container...

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I keep working on the house as time allows. In September, I borrowed a friend's old flooring drum sander. It needed new foam on the drum. I bought some off of Ebay with its own adhesive, cut it ...

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At the beginning of December, we put down the first of the hardwood floor in our house. We worked to get one room painted and ready for the floor. We chose the guest room because it’s out of th...

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2014/12/beech-hardwood-floor-in-guest-room.html

At the beginning of August 2011, we put the first coat of plaster on a couple of the interior walls of the house. Well, 12 tons of dry material later, we’ve completed plastering the interior w...

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2014/09/we-finished-final-coat.html

Work on the house was delayed during much of the spring and early summer because of other demands upon my time. These were important activities, many of them involving spending time with and bein...

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2014/08/plaster-and-paint.html

I’ll refrain from offering excuses for my lack of blogging during the last however many months. Last week I began to work on the specific design of the kitchen cabinets for the house. The kit...

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2014/02/kitchen-cabinetsbuilt-in-construction.html

Well, the winter is over, although spring tried to drag it closer to summer. During the winter, I built a fire in the highly inefficient wood stove in the house occasionally. I would say once a w...

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2013/04/if-i-dont-blog-did-it-really-get-done.html

A video tour of the house filmed on September 7, 2012, just after we finished the 2nd coat of plaster on the downstairs walls.   http://youtu.be/8zv4w0z3T6Q

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We were able to get back to plastering this last week. We spent the previous week getting the cisterns hooked up . The week before that was occupied with making hay while the weather was good for...

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2012/09/second-coat-of-plaster-downstairs-is.html

Last summer, we buried three 1,500 gallon septic tanks (new ones) in front of the house to serve as a cistern for rain water collected off of the roof of the house. I also contracted with a loca...

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The second coat (also called the brown or infill coat) of plaster takes a lot of mud. Of course, we already knew that based upon our plastering experiences two years ago when we finished the exte...

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2012/08/twelve-batches-into-second-coat.html

On Wednesday this week, we decided to put the finish coat of plaster on the walls above the open, center section of the house. I wanted to get the scaffolding out, and we needed it for doing thes...

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-little-finish-coat-and-some-photos.html

We finished the first coat of plaster on the interior walls on Tuesday of this week. We’ve been working on this goal for the last month. It took 59 batches of plaster to get the first coat done...

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-24-first-coat-of-interior-plaster.html

When we finished plastering the kitchen walls, the only thing left to do downstairs was the pantry. We decided to save it until after we finished the first coat upstairs. I mixed up a batch of p...

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2012/07/mud-on-walls-in-upstairs-bedrooms.html

Last week we were able to get back to plastering the interior walls full time. We finished the small section in the master bathroom that needed done and moved on to the upstairs walls in the cent...

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2012/07/plaster-studs-in-kitchen-underlayment.html

I’ve let a few weeks pass without posting, but that doesn’t mean that we haven’t been working. Actually, there were two weeks that we took off from work on the house (not completely, but mo...

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2012/07/mud-in-june.html

There were several things to do this last week that did not involve the house, but we were still able to mix and apply several batches of plaster. On Monday, the boys and I worked all day plast...

http://cedar-ridge-farm.blogspot.com/2012/06/continuing-to-put-mud-on-walls.html

Since we have all the interior walls packed, it was time to focus on plastering. We did a little plastering a few weeks ago – just one batch. The boys both commented that they would rather play...

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I’ve been thinking about and intending to put together a video on using light straw clay, also known as slip straw, in interior walls. The boys and I have packed 1,100 square feet of walls now....

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