Our cabin in the woods is coming right along. This weekend was very productive for us. Yesterday we went to a estate sale and scored big. We picked up new windows for our cabin in the woods for less than 1/2 price, along with plywood.
Below you can see a picture of framing in the windows.
Cabin In The Woods
The steps we are going through to add these windows…
- Determining our windows locations.
- Measuring the windows and building our box frame for these windows.
- Dry fit windows before adding plywood.
- Installing the 1/2″ OSB plywood on sides.
- Using house wrap to cover the sides once all plywood is installed.
- Adding smart siding.
- Going around all seams with paint-able and weather resistant seam sealer.
- Installing windows using window sealant.
- Make trim to go around all windows and for corners, and around bottom of cabin.
- Clean, prime and paint the cabin in the woods.
Once we have finished the outside, and shingled the roof, then we move to the inside.
Inside The Cabin
Our plans for the inside of our little cabin is to keep it simple. We will use ceramic tile throughout the cabin…using various colored pattern. This cabin in the woods will be a very open floor plan to make it look and feel much bigger than it really is. This cabin will have one bedroom, one bathroom, and a kitchen that is open to the living room/dining room.
Pictures below are this evening after framing windows and adding plywood. We still have more plywood to install, but at least you can see what it’s starting to look like.
We will post more pictures along the way of this fun project. As mentioned in previous blog post this cabin Addition has been very cheap due to the free Shed Rhonda found for us. This free shed allowed us to have nearly all of the lumber needed for this project.
In the tear down and moving process we tore up some plywood and had to tear off all the roofing materials. By doing this we’ve had to buy some plywood and still have to buy some roof shingles and roofing paper…and more. See list below…
Additional Materials Needed
Below are the Addition materials we have had to buy and some we still have to purchase for this cabin in the woods project.
- OSB 1/2 Plywood
- Roofing paper
- Shingles
- House wrap
- Gravel
- Seam sealer
- Windows
- Cement backer board
- Thin-set
- Grout for ceramic tile
This free shed we tore apart and moved here for this project was framed and had smart siding on it. We have chosen to add windows, plywood walls, house wrap, then add smart siding over that. Inside we will add insulation and then more than likely some type of barn wood or shiplap wood for a very rustic/cabin look.
As we finish up this project we will share total cabin in the woods cost and detailed list of free stuff and purchased stuff with you.
Feel free to comment below and let us know what you think of this project…
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