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Feb 07

New Project – West Seattle Home Remodel – Taking Walls Down and so much more

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Fine Construction is very excited about a new interesting project we are working on in West Seattle. We are taking down the walls in the middle of the house to open up the floor plan, enlarging the kitchen, installing skylights, enlarging the master suite and doing custom tile for the back-splash and fireplace. We will also install new exterior doors with a new fir front door with lead glass.

Take a look at this PDF that shows the new fireplace tiles and the idea of the design and colors that we are going to use. It is a very personal project and important to us that the client gets what they want here. The client is really excited about the fireplace and the tiles. He fell in love with the tiles after spotting them at a little neighborhood store, Statements, they are handmade, beautiful, unique tiles. Fine Construction is spending some extra time with this client to ensure they get the design and finished product they are extremely happy with for years and years. This is so worth it us, and we are really enjoying the interaction and excitement that the client is interjecting about the layout design and ideas that we have to make this project unique and specifically designed for them and their home.

Feb 03

Need A New Deck This Year – Azek Decking, A Wood Alternative

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Tired of spending your summer staining your deck again? Azek Building Products, in business since the mid 1980’s, began offering Azek decking in 2007. If you need to remodel your rotten deck, create an add-on to your current deck, or even design and create a new one, Fine Construction can help you discover if Azek decking is the best product for you.

Azek decking is made from cellular PVC, a type of plastic, and has many upsides compared to wood and wood composites. Unlike wood, Azek decking is mold and mildew resistant. This is great for Northwest weather! Stain and scratch resistant products like Azek take into account your lifestyle — you aren’t just going to look at the deck, you’re going to use it! Azek eliminates problems like pet damage, grease, food, and drink stains as well as upkeep. Why spend every summer sanding, staining, or painting your deck when you could spend your free time in better ways?

Azek Building Products also commits to sustainability from the corporate offices to the very products they create. Azek decks will last over twenty five years and can even be recycled at the end of their usefulness. Fine Construction is proud to use Azek deck products to continue their twenty-year history of green building.

Aug 11

3rd Story Addition in West Seattle, Completed and Goergous!

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Brazilian Cherry landing and Stairs

This project was a great project from start to finish. The client were great to deal with and we exceeded their expectations.

The entry was very important to the clients. In the original design of the house, when you arrived at the front of the house you didn’t know where the front door was. We moved the front door towards the front of the house by 25′. The exterior has colored concrete with large slate pieces laid in the concrete walkway. In addition to the walkway, we poured a curved concrete wall with LED lights in the concrete wall.

Beautiful Fir Stained Doors and Slate Floor

The entry is so sweet! There is a lot of room in this entryway to comfortably remove your coat, shoes, hat, backpack, skies, snowshoes and roller blades. Now you are ready to stroll thru what we’ve completed. The entry has Fir doors a with clear coat. The floors are a slate 12″ x 24″ tiles. The door has a remote entry so all you do is come near the door and it unlocks. A great feature is the mail slot located outside (of course, better outside than inside) and we made a custom metal chute for the mail to slide to a convenient out of site place for the mail. Another great feature is the video camera the front door with video monitors on each floor so the homeowners can see who is at he front door and communicate with whom ever is at the front door.

A stairway to relaxation

The railing was a great part of this project, we brought the railing design to the clients and together the team approach developed a beautiful piece of art. The top rail is Brazilian cherry mounted to black powder coated steel and stainless steel cables integrated horizontally.

A great place to relax and get reinvigorated

The Soaking tub in this master is just what the homeowners were looking for when we designed this master bath. The added benefit is the window, they can open the window a little and have a view of the sound and the Olympic mountains, soaking doesn’t get any better than that. Quartz counter top with under mount sink and the in-wall faucets set this bathroom apart form your typical bathroom.

Showering in Style, Custom Glass Panel on the Right Wall

The shower provides an experience on it’s own with the tiles on the wall cascading down tot he floor giving the illusion of a waterfall. But look to your left and out the window and you’ll see the Puget Sound waterway and beyond that the Olympic mountains. Showering doesn’t get any better than this.

This project was a true pleasure form the design to the end and now the our clients get to enjoy these wonderful spaces with their family and friends.

Jun 10

West Seattle Remodel, Great Strides, Cool Railings

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In West Seattle, home of Alki Beach, The Fne House and a cool remodel in West Seattle. The stairway railings got installed this week, though the top rail still needs to be installed. The top rail will be custom milled Brazzillian Cherry hand rail.

Jun 04

Progress is Great!

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We’ve got 4 projects going with a couple in design. The economy is picking up, at least that’s the way it feels and that is making a lot of people including myself happy.

Sips for Beacon Hill

The Beacon Avenue Project is coming close to completion. This is our Sips project and it’s located near the flight path of Boeing Field, so outside and on the first floor you can hear the planes gcoming and going. But on the second floor it’s a whole new house. No airplane noise! The walls are SIP’s (Structural Insulated Panels) on each side of the walls their is OSB (Oriented Strand Boards) otherwise known as chip board) and inbetween is 5″ of insulation. This for the walls is an incredible for sound deadening and air infiltration. Then we have an R-38 insulation value in the attic, this is over 16″ of insulation. The floor system has been blown inbetween the first floor cieling and the second floor. Oh I almost forgot about the windows, these are Milgard triple pane with Low E and Argon. With all of these energy efficient products we are not only going to lower the heating bills but we ahve made major strides in reducing the noise infiltraton.

In our Seattle climate, lots of rain and cloudy days, this project should not need much heat to warm this new addition.

May 28

A Fine Fence made from Azek

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Fine Construction has designed and produced a beautiful fence that keep’s the children safe and the dog from wondering off, looking to find new friends. The fence is made out of Azek material which is made of plastic. One of the great benefits of this product is that their is no need for painting, just think of that, not having to ever paint your fence again.

A Fine Fence True Art

We were introduced to this material on a new house that we built on Three Tree Point. The house at Three Tree Point is located adjacent to Puget Sound and south of Seattle. The salt water takes it toll on building products.

The benefits of Azek is it is easy to use, it’s life span is very long, it requires very low maintenance and should last forever.

Back to the fence, the panels are T & G (tongue and groove) bead board and the fence is made up of multiple layers to provide more depth perception. We used, 5/4 boards, 1x boards, T & G the list goes on. Presently the front yard is complete and now we are working on the back gate that is an automatic gate for the driveway. The back gate will match the front fence and the owners will be able to pull up and the gate automatically opens, so sweet!

Scallop Gate

As any project the first step is design. Finding out what the clients needs are, so we are not over building. That’s why it is critical that every project reflect the owners personal style and the project has a sense of personality. Whether it’s a fence or a kitchen or a remodel, taking the time to find the clients style, and bring their feeling into the project, with the material, color and the finishes. Fine Construction serves Seattle metro area and the Eastside.

May 13

Updates on Fine Projects and Remodeling Ideas

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Wow so many things have happened since my last post. World events, Oil gushing in the ocean and BP doesn’t know how to stop it. How many golf balls will it take to stuff the leaky pipe? The winner receives gas for a lifetime!

Well for my projects, exciting progress, has keep me busy not to mention the phone ringing and meeting potential clients. It ’s great that the economy is changing and people are feeling comfortable with it. So what’s new on Beacon Hill (Sips project) this project is great, it is so quite in the house after the insulation and drywall was installed. This house is adjacent to the flight path of Boeing Field in Seattle. Big and small planes, even the new 777 has test flights from this landing strip, so imagine the noise some of these jets produce. So the house on Beacon Hill has the siding installed, the waterproof decking was applied, the exterior doors put into place and she’s all wrapped up. The interior will look great. The owner has picked out nice finished, with granite counter tops, tile heated floors for the bathrooms. The master shower, anyone would enjoy!

The Talk of the Neighborhood

Wrap it, opps I forgot a bow!

Mar 04

Master Suite Update, All inspections pass

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Our West Seattle Master Suite Addition passed inspection today. We are now in gear to get the insulation installed and then move right into drywall. The wiring for the door switches (The entry closet door lights will come on when the door is opened) Some cool features that the clients have chosen are remote access tot he front door, with a key-chain the front door will unlock. Also there will monitoring of the front door, if someone comes to the front door, the homeowners can view who is at the front door from 3 locations (Each floor) and unlock the door so the visitor can come in the house.

The 7.1 surround system is being installed with the recess speakers. The accent lighting for the front foyer is roughed in and we are waiting for the new custom front door. The garage doors jsut got installed

The Kids better not break these with a skate board!

Better pickers to follow for the garage doors.

The siding crew has started to install the new siding, we are using Hardie plank smooth siding and the corners will be metal comers with clean simple trim around the windows and doors. We wil be building a trellis in front opf the garage door.

The entry will have a tile floor and when you approach the steps leading to the landing this will transition into hardwoods, the handrails will be metal with stainless steel cables topped with wood.

Entry floor tob tile with vaulted ceiling

This is a nice project an d great clients to deal with, it doesn’t get any better than that.

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Feb 25

Beacon Hill Sips Project, Update

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Wow, it’s cool, the panels are light, of course they are, they have two sheets of OSB with 5-1/2″ of Styrofoam. Two guys can trow them around like a door. While I was in a networking meeting with Kathy Banak (Authentic Home) and Julie Bennet introducing them to each other and as you would know it they are in a spinning class together. Well I got a call int he middle of the meeting that the Flatbed with the Sips was leaving Tacoma and heading to Seattle to my project, Cool!

I headed over to Beacon Hill and there is the truck with two loads of panels.

Sips Coming of the truck

After unloading the panels, the building inspector showed up and was looking to see what’s going on? We didn’t call for an inspection, but that’s cool, we had everything going by the book. It was great that he stopped by and chatted with Dan (Fine Construction PM) and I. Just a week ago we tour off the roof and hopefully by Saturday the trusses will be installed and the roof will have felt installed, so the roof and structure is weathered in, 2 weeks form tearing off a roof to trusses felted in, that’s aggressive!

Dan Discussing the project with the Building Inspector

The panels are being installed and it’s cool, I can’t wait to do more.

First Structual Insulated Panel being installed

More panels going up.

West Wall Second Story panels

Fine Construction is proud of their construction projects and if the project is clean and organized the carpenters can find what they are looking for and we can see what we have. I was down near the water and I stopped to talk to this carpenter about the project they were doing and then I looked around and there was garbage everywhere, then one of the carpenters was upset because he couldn’t find anything.

Lumber pile, nice and organized

Tomorrow the balance of wall panels, Trusses come at 8am and hopefully Ron our framing lead will have the guys installing the trusses and most of them will be in-place tomorrow afternoon. I might have to bring lots of coffee and donuts.

Feb 23

West Seattle 3rd Story Master Suite Addition With Incredible Views, Update

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This West Seattle remodel is sweet! Here is the update on this project, we are all framed up, the addition is in the process of getting inspections for plumbing and electrical. We are also expanding the entry by adding a vaulted foyer, adding a heat pump unit to not only help on the heating side but to help provide cooling for the summer days.

The Insulation and drywall will be starting in just a couple of weeks. The interior of this project is going t be beautiful, you don’t have to take my word for it, just wait and see. The stair system will be an cable system. The living room will have 7.1 surround sound system.

The owners get to wake up to this great view!

One nice featured that was added is the intercom system, from any one of the 3 locations (one location per floor) the homeowners will be able to view and communicate with whom may be at the front door and unlock the door.