Roofing ordered – check!  We wrestled a bit with the best roofing to go with.  We knew we wanted standing seam metal roofing, but, of course, there are many brands and models of such.  We decided we wanted the standing seams to be as short as possible, so that limited our options.  We ended up going with ASC Building Products’s Skyline Roofing.  It has one-inch standing seams, a dark gray color option, and a manufacturing plant right here in Sacramento.  I would have liked the metal between the standing seams to be fully flat, but nothing is ever perfect (seriously, why am I not a magician able to conjure up all things to my design).  We’re hoping the 16-inches between seams looks good since the 12-inch option wasn’t available here in Sacramento.  Fingers crossed it all looks as good as we hope!  We were happy to see it matched the color of the exterior cladding of our windows pretty darn well (again, if not perfectly).

After trying to tackle the bay window roof in our Sketchup 3-D model, I was feeling something close to dread for attempting the bay window roof in reality.  But, turns out, the bay window roof was much easier to build in real space than on computer space.  I still haven’t figured out how to get it right in the model (after more hours than I will admit making attempts and curses), but Eli had that roof planned, measured, chopped, and built in half a day.  Sometimes that guy amazes me.

Then, it was on to more detail work: painting!  I love painting (to which my family can attest – I happily painted the entire exterior of our beach cottage with the help of my cousin; one of the best few months of my life!).  Because we’ll have the tiniest little eaves (like an inch or so from the walls; we didn’t want to waste a lot of the width of the house with eaves instead of interior space – remember the house can only be 8’6″ wide at it’s widest point!), we had to paint the bird block and exposed rafters before attaching the fascia boards.  We’re planning on going with a natural wood color for our siding with dark gray accents (hence the dark gray window cladding and roofing).

And now, the exterior shell is complete, but not yet waterproofed with the metal roofing or wood siding.  We’re fully sheltered, but not yet weatherproof!  Which means with us moving into the start of the winter rainy season here and another month-long period when we won’t be able to work on the house, the Hygge Hale had to don his not-so-tiny poncho yet again.