Ready for company!

The long awaited sauna project is finally finished! We took our first sauna this week and it works well. I wanted to post a few pictures showing Dave's craftmanship. It was hard to get pictures to really show how it looks since the room is small and I couldn't get far enough away to get a full wall.

The walls are lined with cedar and the benches are built of cedar. Dave had lots of pieces left from when he made cedar picnic tables and chairs and this was a good use for some of them. It hardly made a dent in the stack, though!

The wall behind the sauna unit and the facing long wall are done in a herringbone pattern. I helped Dave putting these up - he would resaw the wood, cut the boards, miter the ends, router the edges, sand them off, then I would glue them in place and measure and mark the next boards for him to cut. It took a bit of figuring to get the pattern started - we used my quilting ruler to get the exact angles - but I think it really looks nice now that it is all finished.

The sauna is off the shower room - and this wall in the shower room matches, as we lined it with cedar also.

We have two bedrooms, so room for quite a few guests. We put a double bed and a day bed in this room. So far we have twin beds in the other room.

This is the commons room - has a washer and dryer, kitchen sink, microwave, coffee pot... a place to sit and eat or write or whatever.

Here is Dave's interpretation of raised gardening beds. He built this one last night and plans to make 5 or 6 more. His idea is to make the beds so he can move them around as needed with his forklift. We can have the garden at the end of the shop in the summer, then he can move the boxes and stack them up somewhere in the winter and he can park the bus in the same spot at the end of the shop in the winter when it needs the protection from the wind.