![]() 10/25/2017 at 22:55 • Filed to: Houses | ![]() | ![]() |
Same builder as I’ve posted before, but a different project. Anyway, I still like it.
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I dig it.
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That is pretty nice.
![]() 10/25/2017 at 23:08 |
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Nice. If they could thin down the stringers it’d be even nicer.
![]() 10/25/2017 at 23:10 |
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Cedar?
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but how are the chandlers in this house?
![]() 10/25/2017 at 23:15 |
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Is that just pine stained to look like cedar? Because I think it is.
![]() 10/25/2017 at 23:17 |
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Posting your naked wood to oppo??! YOU DISGUST ME
![]() 10/25/2017 at 23:19 |
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Nope. I can’t do open stairs like that without the riser.
![]() 10/25/2017 at 23:31 |
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I like it. What kind of wood in those uprights?
![]() 10/25/2017 at 23:31 |
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Chandeliers?
![]() 10/25/2017 at 23:32 |
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Always liked that sort of staircase screen, sort of reminds me of the Blossom house.
![]() 10/25/2017 at 23:37 |
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I feel like I could drunkenly fall through that.
![]() 10/25/2017 at 23:43 |
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Very 70s Scandinavian feel
![]() 10/25/2017 at 23:47 |
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Nice Craftsman vibe. I hope the family doesn’t have any little kids.
![]() 10/25/2017 at 23:49 |
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They’re actually pretty stout, but I’m sure a motivated drinker would find a way.
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I forgot to ask the designer. I’ll be back at another project soon I’m sure, I’ll remember then.
![]() 10/25/2017 at 23:51 |
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Looks like Doug fir.
![]() 10/25/2017 at 23:52 |
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It looks like Doug fur.
![]() 10/26/2017 at 07:08 |
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Amazing he could find that many clean, knot-free, straight 2x4s... but my OCD would have insisted he replace the two blondes, or maybe reordered the whole row from dark to light... definitely. Thanks for sharing!
![]() 10/26/2017 at 07:24 |
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I couldn’t be certain. Nice Doug fir, if it is...
![]() 10/26/2017 at 07:37 |
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Those aren’t 2x4s, they’re a specific grade/type of wood used extensively for trim in PNW houses. It’s “VG [something]”, which means it’s wood that is primarily vertical grain with minimal, tight, knots. Everyone generically calls it “Veegee” or “Veegee [Insert conifer name, usually Fir or Pine]” around here...
![]() 10/26/2017 at 07:41 |
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I like it
for the next one, the guy should try setting the stringer in the wall and using the 2X2's (or what every they are) to hold up the treads
![]() 10/26/2017 at 07:47 |
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This is in severe need of railings.
It’s not bad and makes me wonder if walls are finally coming back after the open concept obsession in the last 30 or so years (that has been further pushed/maintained beyond reason due to HGTV reruns from the housing boom era keeping terrible style trends well past their reasonable expiration dates).
![]() 10/26/2017 at 07:54 |
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The treads look like Fir. The uprights look too nice, but I suppose you can buy anything if you throw enough money at it. It’s got the colour and grain right, anyway... I think fwiw I’d put my money on well selected Douglas Fir
![]() 10/26/2017 at 08:07 |
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The treads and stringers, I agree, are likely Doug fir. I’m wondering if the uprights might be spruce or something else, maybe even some kind of pine.
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Doug fur?
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I feel like it’s got too much colour variation and distinct grain for pine, at least for Eastern White. Spruce... maybe? Again it seems like too much red for that though. Cedar can have the colour variation but should overall be a deeper red... not cedar.
![]() 10/26/2017 at 08:51 |
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I trimmed out some doors and windows with similar, it’s just a very high grade/quality Doug fir.
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Nice stuff then. Must be pricey.
I love Doug Fir... smells amazing. Any time we do a job with the stuff it makes everything better while it’s here. Of course, you touch it and it runs a dagger through your hand, but still.
So nice
![]() 10/26/2017 at 09:18 |
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I buy tuba-foes
surface dry
at a lumber yard that come very straight, very tight grain and then I mill them into smaller pieces and make things out of it.
![]() 10/26/2017 at 09:19 |
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It may well be Doug. I’m looking at the pic on my PC monitor and it shows much better than on my phone. Kinda pinkish...
![]() 10/26/2017 at 09:24 |
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I’m in a wood industry but have no patience for actual woodworking... if I can’t do it with 2x and a hammer I don’t have much interest in it. I’d make a decent framer but a horrible finish carpenter.
More than anything I hate finishing things... stain can gtfo, clearcoat or spray bomb all the way. Or both.
![]() 10/26/2017 at 09:27 |
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I don’t envy the installer. The smell is wonderful when it’s being cut. The cuts themselves, not so much. Coarse grain softwood is horrible to work with imo
![]() 10/26/2017 at 09:44 |
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When I’m working with the material I described earlier, I’m using it usually on smaller, one-by sticks. Having said that, I have no idea what else one might use for those uprights that wouldn’t be a hardwood.
![]() 10/26/2017 at 10:29 |
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There is a local mom and pop mill near where I live that we bought it at. The other wood, like in Zoiberg’s post comes from the PNW area so the grain is not as tight. I have Sierra Pacific Windows and doors made from wood from northern california/oregon/washingtion , it is a beautiful wood, really goes red with age.