The Exterior of the Stable is Done!

The upper border around all four sides of the stable was finished Friday. The stable is Andy's pride and joy at Laughing Fox. I plan to take pictures this weekend and will post them. The cornerstone was layed and completed the day before. Here are a couple of pictures of that.

Tennessee Stone Company in Nashville, TN owned by Larry Mashburn did the stone work. We would highly recommend them for stone work. They were conscientious, hard-working, dependable and did everything that we asked for them to do. Thanks, TN Stone!

Also here is a photo of the stained glass above the front door of Four Flues. So far this is my favorite part of the house...of course it's no where near done!

The Time Capsule

April 14, 2009: Andy and I are going to Laughing Fox today to have the cornerstone placed at the stable. We are going to have our time capsule ready that includes this blog and other hard pictures that we have. It will be placed behind the cornerstone. We hope that the stable will not come to grief, but if it does hopefully someone will find this time capsule, find it interesting and use it to their advantage.

What is left to do:

Finish the interior of the stable
Finish restoring and hanging the interior doors at Four Flues
Finish restoring and hanging the windows and shutters
Interior painting, refinishing the floors, reworking the fireplaces, hang the banister, hang lighting, hang wall paper in the foyer, move in!!!

Thank you for visiting and hopefully following our blog!

Clarice and Andy

Restoration Stages

These photos are of various restoration stages that were taken about September,2008, just bout the time we started the project

Progress Continues

Andy and Michael have been working on the stable this week along with the stonemasons. The outside is almost done and it looks fantastically!!! The inside has the board walls hung almost completely around where the stalls will be. When it is finished, I will post the good and the "could be improved" comments.

The wallpaper came for the foyer of the house. It is beautiful and I can't wait to see it hung! Doug, I promise as soon as Andy gives me the go ahead, I'll call you! I also picked up the paint for the kitchen, getting ready to order the vent for above the stove, and Jess and Seth Brown are working on the drawings for the cabinets and the vanities. What I have learned here is that there are about a million range vents!

The wind was so hard today that it bent the hinges on the gates going into where the stable is...it's always something!! But the upside is that we can clearly see the Duck River from the house, what a beautiful site!

Stable progress