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New arch

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

We’ve been working on the new arch over the main entrance to the new house.

As you might remember, this kind of “architectural detail” is added by nailing thick styrofoam down on the exterior wall before stucco.

Last time, Brad did a great job of basically freehanding the design. This time with a wider door, we were having a harder time with it, so we decided to apply technology.

First I found an arch we liked on the computer.

Then we projected it onto the stryrofoam piece. Lots of trick size matching to do here.

Then Brad did the tracing.

And here’s the final result. Well, not quite final, but you get the idea.

 

Archway Designs

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Today, days and days of rain and wind culminated in snow in the mountains, and later in the day, a wild fit of snow flurries at our house.

We worked inside and built our first indoor arched doorway.

final

To start, Brad drew the arch shape onto 1/4″ plywood (he’s getting very good at this) and then cut it with a jigsaw.

jigsaw

Then we ripped a couple 2x4s to be 1/2″ less than normal. This was so we could use them as framing inside, and when the two pieces of plywood were attached, the whole thing would be the same width as a 2×4.

attaching 2bys

Then we screwed the plywood down to the framing…

kmf_screws

and attached it to the doorway framing.

kmf_attaching

It looks fabulous.

beforeandafter

We have at least one more arch to make for Tumbleweed (or maybe more??) and many in the main house. I’m looking forward to finishing these with drywall, paint or clay, some tile accents, and who knows what else!