The GC should be out by Aug/Sep. Then my spouse and I have to go to work finishing things.
First Smoke on the New Porch!
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Just keep smoking! It'll show up soon!
Congratulations, I wish you many bowls in good health on your porch! Our new house is finished and I had an exhaust fan put in the den/office/guest bedroom, against my wife’s wishes and knowledge. She was pissed but I am on a mission to “be allowed” to smoke in this room, haha.
I am not here to steal your thunder so congratulations again on the build, super exciting.
I am not here to steal your thunder so congratulations again on the build, super exciting.
No worries, man! I know the option of "get your spouse to become a pipe smoker also" is not available to everyone, so I'm happy to hear about other strategies, too.
Please tell us more about how to deploy this strategy
Was she a smoker already?
Doors and a poured patio surface! There's wall board up on the inside, too. Plasterer starts tomorrow inside, GC's gonna put up the siding this week and next.
They started siding around the garage, which is the other side of our breezeway here. Behind me you can just make out the old walnut tree we used to find shade and cool breezes under in high summer whose location and orientation drove the design of this outdoor space.
The plasterer is just about done inside, so I can take measurements for the pipe and tobacco cabinet that will live just inside from this porch.
Thanks for the updates; it's been really fun to follow how things have progressed. I enjoy watching some of those home reno shows but sadly no one's done one with a pipe room as part of the work.
Yeah, they get really bland people to do those shows. I did about 7-8 years of installation work as part of my 20 years as a cabinet and furniture maker and I have had many conversations with folks about building displays or structures to show off their eccentric hobbies. Everything from model railroads to fully equipped BDSM dungeons.
A 2' wide pipe rack built-in ain't nothing.
A 2' wide pipe rack built-in ain't nothing.
Wow, that sounds like some pretty memorable stuff.
I totally agree with the people they get for the shows and I get why they do it. My wife is the determiner of who’s tolerable enough to watch and we actually don’t watch too many
Siding is on! Just gotta pick some lights and patio furniture, maybe a hvls outdoor fan.
KBB Van Gogh in a 4th Gen sandblasted bent brandy.
Looks wonderful! There's something about a porch that makes a pipe hit different, better somehow. You're living the life.
The someday pipes and tobaccos storage/display on the way out the door to the smoking porch.
It's not much of a picture, but it's important to know that it's been part of the plans all along.
Beautiful house, congratulations. I work in real estate, so these topics always interest me a lot.
I'm fascinated by all this; it seems that where you live, buying land and building a house is very simple. Where I live it would be simply unthinkable: building land is very rare and in any case you can't build the house the way you like it, there are often landscape constraints to respect, otherwise you won't get the permits.
I'm also very curious to understand why I see so many houses built of wood in America.
I'm fascinated by all this; it seems that where you live, buying land and building a house is very simple. Where I live it would be simply unthinkable: building land is very rare and in any case you can't build the house the way you like it, there are often landscape constraints to respect, otherwise you won't get the permits.
I'm also very curious to understand why I see so many houses built of wood in America.
It's above my pay grade, but I would imagine the availability issue has a lot to do with America having been settled by people who use property rights and build permanent dwellings about 1/10 as long as Italy.
The second question I actually feel comfortable answering - because Canada sells it cheap!
Last exterior details! Lights and a slow speed fan. Landscaping is done, also - so it's now a single step up and down from the porch.
Finally: the teak bench my father and I made together probably 25-odd years ago. Thinking of his memory as I celebrate the milestone with a bowl from a just opened tin of Russ Oullette's Acadian Gold I had been saving in the first pipe I ever bought or smoked way back in 1992.
We still have a ton of work to do on the inside, but the porch feels pretty done now, so this'll probably be the last update for a while. I don't even have the built-in pipe display case on my radar yet.
Thanks for virtually joining me on this journey to make a comfortable place to sit and smoke a pipe. PM me if you're ever passing through Green County, WI and I'll be happy to share the bench with you!