These are some informal pictures, taken at different times, of the mountain retreat that Dr. Bob and his wife Janet are constructing with their own bare hands (plus occasional helpers and a few power tools). This is an ongoing work in progress. Click on thumbnails to see a larger picture slide show.

Dr. Bob and Janet, the owners/builders		Outside looking west. The great room is in the nearest section and the sun room is in the farthest section. The garage is on the far right.The hot tub will be on the second story between the cabin and garage. (Yes, that's a big barbeque grill on a trailer)
Closer view of the Hot Tub cover and a corner of the garage. Note the stone work in the chimney that Dr. Bob built.		View of the garage pine paneling ceiling. The garage is still under construction.
View of concrete patio in front of the great room looking east toward the garage. The block pattern is stenciled into the concrete.		Standing in the west end of the great room looking west into the sun room. The kitchen is to the right. The purple bedroom is through the white door in the right wall. Note the mountain slate stone floor and pine paneling.
Looking right into the kitchen. Note the shiny counter tops Dr. Bob made of concrete. Also note the custom maple faces Dr. Bob made for the refrigerator. The door on the right goes into the pantry/utility room.		Looking down, a view of the pegged maple floor where it joins the mountain slate floor. Of course Dr. Bob put down both of these.
Looking through the kitchen. The entrance to the sunroom is visible along the left edge of the picture.		More kitchen, more maple flooring. The cabinets were all custom made by Dr. Bob from maple wood.
Kitchen view from second floor. Note the pegged maple wood floor and the mountain slate stone floor. Also note the concrete counter top and custom built maple face for the dishwasher.		Looking up above the kitchen at the yellow poplar wall paneling and pine ceiling.
Standing in the east end of the great room facing west and looking up. Dr. Bob designed the roof support system. The beams are hemlock and the ceiling paneling is pine.		Standing in the great room facing northwest and looking up. Note the railing balusters made of copper tubing. The door in the center of the picture is a bathroom. Looking through the railing, just to the left of the wreath on the right, is the door to the sauna.
Standing in the great room looking at the north wall with its stucco finish in a beautiful faux leather look.		Looking more to the north east, the wall is yellow poplar paneling. Note custom seat bottoms made by Dr. Bob's sister.
View looking northwest at the door to the downstairs bathroom in the next slide.		A green concrete shower stall in the east most downstairs bathroom. This is not complete yet. It will be a handicap accessible shower.
Looking at the northeast corner of the great room is the door leading to the garage. This door has not recieved its final color treatment.		The fireplace in the east wall. Dr. Bob designed it and did the stone work (with a little help).
Closer view of fireplace that Dr. Bob built. Note the concrete hearth, and the old time swing out pot hanger in the fireplace.		Back to the north west corner of the cabin are bedroom and bathroom doors underneath the stairs
A little closer look into the purple bedroom with the purple mountain slate floor. Note the custom door that Dr. Bob built and the little cedar night table Dr. Bob's dad made.		View of the purple bedroom from the sunroom.
The pine stairs up to the second level.		A sleeping area to the left at the top of the stairs.
Standing upstairs to the east of the top of the stairs and looking west. A view of the grapevine railing and pegged cherry flooring and sleeping areas.		Looking to the right, i.e. north east, a sleeping nook. Note the hinges to a bathroom door on the left edge of the picture. Go through the doorway on the right to the next picture.
An upstairs bedroom area seen from standing near the west end of the cabin looking east. The door in the wall on the right side of the picture is the upstairs bathroom door seen from downstairs. The white door with window further to the right is the door to the hot tub outside.		Part of the bathroom behind the door in the previous picture. Note the concrete counter top the vertical yellow poplar panneling and the horizontal pine paneling.
More of that upstairs bathroom with pine and yellow poplar paneling. The green shower bathroom is directly below this bathroom.		A stitched picture of the steam shower in this bathroom. Note the poplar and pine panneling.
The eastern most bedroom area, with yellow poplar floors. Note the door to the hot tub (which needs its final color treatment), the copper tubing railing, and the heat return register in the floor (black rectangle).		That heat return register in the upstairs yellow poplar floor near the east end of the house.
Looking back northeast from the heat register, one sees the door to the sauna.		Looking southeast from the heat register we see the coper tubing railing and stone chimney.