Beginning of the Endgame

A beautiful, bluebird day for working on KnArrow Haus doing what can only be characterized as the endgame. 

In the Wintertime, a mountain to the Sourth shields the cabin from direct sunlight
starting early afternoon, even though we have daylight until early evening.

View from the inside.

Mackenley digging in the snowbank created by the roof shedding.

Started off the workday with a gimme: Installing the microwave. We've been using a cheapo-temp microwave during construction that will now be relegated to the basement. I searched high and low, long and hard to find a black stainless steel that was 18" wide or narrower. They don't exist. This LG model that is _exactly_ 18" wide and has a 1000 watts of power. 

The next order of business was far less glamorous. I applied another coat of epoxy to the drain trough and pipe flange in the bunk bathroom sink -- don't want to take any chances with it leaking (again) after my first failed attempt at repair. (Really annoyed that a sink that expensive wasn't perfect out of the box.)  

Sorry, no pics. 

With Katie's help, I mounted the sliding door track for the bunk bathroom.

Mounting the track for the sliding bathroom door.

I did a lot of measuring, planning, and remeasuring to make sure the wheels on the track would clear the perpendicular vent pipe; and so the door would also be at the right height for the opening. Not too high. Not too low. Just right. 

Because the framing is a little off inside the wall and the track crossed the opening at the top of the doorway, I had to drill an extra hole in the metal track. But I'm good at drilling through metal after my experience with the stair railing.

With both sliding door mounted the next order of business was installing the handles.

Handle on outside of sliding door

Handle on inside of sliding door.

The final accoutrement to the sliding doors is the door guide at the bottom to keep the door from swinging in and out.

Sliding door roller guide

Final task for the day was installing the toilet paper holders.  I bought these on Etsy a few weeks ago.

Basement bathroom

Main floor toilet room

Bunk bath toilet room

Master bathroom

As we were packing up last night to come home, Mackenley came running in, crying with blood on his tongue. He learned the hard lesson that a cold metal railing is NOT a good place to lick off the frost.

Tongues and metal railing don't mix.
(Note the "shiny" patch on the railing seasoned with tongue skin.)