Drywall up and down done, painted inside and out with hardwood done. Cleaning day tomorrow, bathroom tile, doors, trim, electrical trim, kitchen, appliances and Done!! One more week or so. Tired but happy. It’s perfect! 
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Amazing what a few can do when you just keep at it.
TheCommonAtheist 
Beautiful Jim. Well done. Love those floors.
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They’ll be shiny tomorrow. From here on all the cutting done outside. Thanks Ben. I’m also building a pallet kitchen with a copper farm sink. Be my first attempt at such a rustic endeavor.
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Very nice. Very nice indeed.
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Oh that looks so good! Such a lot of work, but very well done! I love looking at homes, floor plans, décor, etc.
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My daughter drew this one. It’s hard to get a feel for it but it’s a great layout. I’ll try to do a video walkthrough when it’s done. (If I can walk anymore) wood floors hard on the old knees. Thanks Meow
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I’d really like to see a video, so much better than stills.
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I added a pic of the floorplan. Some minor changes but that pretty close. We added a cante lever in the master too
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That’s a great layout!
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I think it’s the best for 1400 feet and a family. Having that center for the stairs, laundry and bath was pretty genius. Open areas and private areas. Problem with a lot of open concept/greatrooms is you can hear everyone from everywhere. This solved a lot of that.
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Yes, open, & private where it needs to be. My house is 1120 sq. ft. but I wish it was a little larger. The layout isn’t bad but we don’t have en suite, & I wish we did, & definitely could use more kitchen space. Luckily the kids aren’t here, or I’d feel really crammed.
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Great job, Jim. In the home stretch yet? (sorry about the knees.)
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Two weeks tops (I hope). Finishing is a task all in itself. You get to do a lot of stuff no one likes to do. Thanks Bill
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Looks beautiful!
I don’t know why but my eyes always turn towards your hammock.😂
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Because hammocks should be in every home.
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Bravo, the floors look great. What type of wood?
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Hickory. They are beautiful. Thanks
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It’s coming along nicely, Jim! Superb workmanship!! I can’t wait to see the finished product. . . I do love any kind of building project.
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Thank you dear.
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Great looking house! I love that floor. That wood is beautiful. I’ve never seen hickory used for flooring before. Beautiful grain and color. Not very commonly used up here. We use mostly oak or maple for wood floors. I like that centrally located bathroom too.
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Very impressive. Almost like a real house.
Well done that man!
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Thanks Ark. I’m about ready to abuse that hammock for a week or two. I don’t think we’ve had a day off since starting. Regarding your post today, it’s too early here I guess to figure out what the hell he was saying—like a mad man. I’ll stumble back over and use my secret decoder ring and super anticontrafallicicular powers to unlock his ciphers.
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You can borrow my Bible with all the red felt tip dots if you like?
Better than the Da Vinci code!
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Uh, methinks that many red dots would put me into a frontal seizure. But, then I could prophecy it all up fresh like Mo and Mu
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When I first read it, I marked any verse or passage I needed to cross reference, check the name of spelling of etc.
At first, I sat with encyclopedias to one side and on occasion an atlas. Later, of course, I included the internet.
This is why when a Dickhead like Kilpatrick states that the bible says nothing about Israelites at Kadesh I simply shake my head and seriously wonder what the hell bible he is reading?
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I heard the Kilpatrick translation has omitted the most damming verses. Glossing over the wheres to find the confirmation biases is typical reading of the buybull.
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It is ridiculous and the surest sign of complete lack of confidence in the text.
There are at least four (that I know of ) views regarding the Exodus and each one falls flat.
You get someone such as Friedman who thinks it was just one tribe – the Levites.
You have the innerantist view – Like Kitchen and then there is the belief of Bryant Woods I think it is , who reckons on a different era.
And another who bases his view on all the Egyptian borrow words.
I forget his name.
And there are others I’m sure.
But each view encounters major problems when trying to line up with archaeology, as Albright discovered and Dever too.
Nothing matches! It just will not fit.
But each proponent of some sort of biblical view cherry-picks to suit their own agenda.
They even fight among themselves!
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The reed sea versus the Red Sea is another. Downsize the event enough to make it untraceable, and voila! There’s your proof.
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Wood uses the term Reed Sea. But no one has ever figured out where it is, and once you start meddling with the text … well, ‘t’aint quite the Word of the Lawd anymore, now is it?
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That’s looking fantastic. Is it real hardwood, or did you use the wood-look tiles?
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Engineered planks. They do go together pretty easy, but lots of work anyway. The old way is too expensive nowadays.
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They look great. I wish I could’ve talked my wife into those. The wood look tiles in my house turned out okay (I’m not a professional, to say the least), but I think I could’ve done a nicer job with wood.
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They are pretty precise. If you look at the plan, I started in the kitchen, went down the hall and into all the bedrooms, can out the other end of the hall and connected perfectly to the living room. Pretty amazing really.
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Looks beautiful. I’d say “hang in there,” but you’d head straight for the hammock.
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It’s practically ready to move in now! 😉 Those floors look gorgeous Jim! Four bedrooms for 2-6 kids/grandkids I suppose? 🤭
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Without a doubt … superb workmanship! 🙂
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Well the house looks nice!
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Beautiful Jim
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Me, or the house? Lol. Thanks Jonathan.
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Well Both
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