A Log Home has a lot of wood; wooden walls, wooden ceilings, so I thought it would be a nice change to not make the floor wood as well. Also, this is Texas, and summers get a little hot sometimes, so why not tiles? They are easy to clean, cool 😎 to the touch and I received so many positive comments on the tiles in the bathroom that I will put the same tiles in the great room (living room).
As tiles can break when laid directly on a wooden subfloor, the first thing to put in is concrete boards. 32 hardie backer boards actually, looking like this and weighing a ton ( or actually 563 kilogram or 1248 lbs)

All the boards are in now, but again it was too dark to take a picture, so here’s about halfway.
This also shows my Poang Ikea chair, really comfy (posting from it now) and matched the cedar brown and Chink color perfectly.

After finishing a coding project I started tiling this afternoon. Almost 1/4 is in now.
As you can see I started in the center, as that makes for symmetric tiles on all sides.
A bit more tile cutting, but doable.

Remember Dynasty? This TV series almost was as famous as Dallas. Last March, based on looks and name, I bought a 60” fan with the name Carrington. Which was Blake and Alexis family name. The fan has two purposes: create a breeze when it’s hot ( most of the summer) and push hot air down when it’s cold. At night it can get nippy here and even hit freezing point, although usually it warms up to the 60’s during the day ( that’s more than 16 celcius) when you hear air downstairs, it will rise and without the fan you would be mostly heating the second floor. The fan forces the air down, spreading the warmth.

The master bath room has been tiled. This morning I put in the grout. It kinda looks nice if I do say so myself.

The broken second sink and mirror will be arriving in Houston in a few days,
so they will be put in next time.

The master bedroom received its first line of tiles. These are sloped down slightly towards the wall.
The reason for this is that there will be an open rainfall shower up from where you see the drain.
By making it sloped, most dripped water flows down to the drain.

The tiles are grey/brown, matching the grey of the vanity and the brown of the stained logs.

If you didn’t know any better, you’d think Ozuye lodge is in the middle of the woods.
This is what it looks like from the outside today:

See how the Gable end siding already faded due to not being stained?
I might still do that if I can find the time.

The home is now finally closed to the point that all floors stay dry no matter from which direction the wind blows if it rains.
Another pale used on this wall, and only 2 pales left, which will never be enough for the inside,  but that’s more a cosmetic than an essential.

Now the only chinking on the outside is the top log just underneath the roof line.
I will do that tomorrow, and then also make the drip Federal Blue.

The deck is made of pressure treated pine, which starts green and would eventually turn grey and decay. To avoid that, I stained it today in Federal blue.

This 180 pano was taken at 5, about 1 hour before sunset. (Daylight savings ended today here)

Sometimes it’s good to listen to others advices. Both Arnoud and Paulette suggested I would cover the piers not on the outside of the deck, but where the house wall starts.

As you can see it is more balanced this way. The boards are white now, but will be painted grey tomorrow. The color will visually match the chink lines.

The west wall is finally chinked top to bottom. This means that with the most common north eastern wind, the house stays dry until now, the inside floor would get wet on that side if enough wind during rain.

Those ugly OSB boards in the front will cover up the piers of the foundation. That’s by presidential order: the president of the subdivision demands all piers covered. Guess he doesn’t like piers.

If you are of the same age I am or older, you will probably know Vanity 6. These 3 ladies had a few hits in the 80’s wearing lingerie. Don’t ask me any song titles, I only remember the important stuff 😁

But this vanity is of a different kind: it normally has two sinks and two mirrors, but thanks to careless couriers, I now have vanity 3: one sink and one mirror.

The other sink and mirror arrived like this:

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