Great room - ceiling done!

Made it up to the island just for Friday night with the plan to leave mid-day Saturday. The goal was to finish the ceiling and work on a few other odds and ends. Chris and Tim were cool enough to join me and were critical to wrap-up the ceiling work. On the way, we had to stop at Menards to buy more ceiling boards and miscellaneous trim pieces since we did not know exactly what we needed until we got back at it.

Around 9:00 pm on Friday night, the ceiling was looking good and nearing completion. We did not have time to pre-stain the final wood planks so we hung them unfinished and then I stained them later in place.

Chris measuring up the trim approach

Representing the "last spike", very similar to the completion if the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, here is a photo of me putting in the "last nail" of the ceiling project.

Putting in the LAST nail

Here is a fresh photo from Saturday morning after staining the final boards. This great-room ceiling is really the first finished surface in the entire cottage so far. I am super happy with the results.

Looking good

At the peak of the ceiling where the two adjoining surfaces meet, there is no easy way to trim this out due to the weird angles and trying to avoid making long thin rips of the ceiling boards. We decided to use 1 x 6 pine, cut them to length, and nail between the fan boxes already in place. The fan boxes were great because they had a nice flat square surface to match up.

 The final final!

Saturday morning, I managed to slap up the last few pieces of drywall in Anna's room that close off the plumbing exposed behind the main bath shower. You'll notice I had to "piece together" several scraps of drywall. I realize the drywall pictures are not very exciting, but this was the last open wall and I was able to use up and put away all the remaining sheets of drywall and scraps.

Anna's room - drywall done

This season is rapidly coming to a close. Next trip up will be the last for the year. I plan to winterize and close up the cottage for the season.

Stay tuned.