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Yesterday the two 58′ Lid Park modules were moved to another location in our shop to receive finishing touches and make room for our next Method Cabin, which framing for began yesterday. More on that project, appropriately named Spencer Lake to come. For now here are some updated pics of Lid Park. Lid Park is scheduled to leave our shop sometime in June depending on when the site work will be completed. In these pics you can see the modules for the first time from a distance and begin to visualize how they will lay out on site. The side of the modules that is visible in these shots is what will be the southern elevation of the home, overlooking the park across the street. The park across the street is essentially directly above the first I-90 tunnel as you head east out of the city of Seattle. The module with the covered cedar deck is the upper master bedroom module, complete with two decks, one being the large rooftop deck visible in these images. You should be able to see the city from this upper level. Either way the southern exposed, territorial view from this lot will be great. The upper master bedroom module features a large custom bath with walk-in tile shower and custom concrete trough with double wall faucet. It also features a large walk-in closet and main sleeping/bedroom area with additional Juliet balcony. The module below will have an additional two decks, one off of the kitchen/dining area and the other another matching Juliet balcony off of the living. The kitchen features custom Black Walnut cabinetry and high end appliances. The home has a strand woven Mocha from Bamboo Hardwoods throughout. Finishing touches on-site will include custom steel railings and metal siding. Stay tuned for a another post identifying the set date. Enjoy the pics.

Check out the floor to ceiling windows and dark bamboo. Trim almost complete with cabinets and finishes shortly.

Lid Park will start getting finishes on Monday. Starting with bamboo hardwood (Bamboo Hardwoods in Seattle) and then trim. Because the trim (formaldehyde free MDF) will be painted the same color (white) as the walls, we are going to install the trim before final paint. In these pictures you can see the drywall is complete. We used a higher recycled content sheetrock on this job than you would typically see on standard construction. We are also installing tile (recycled content tile from Statements Tile in Seattle) on Monday in the master bath shower. We already have the majority of the cabinetry in our shop waiting installation. The cabinets are FSC certified maple boxes with FSC certified black walnut faces. The cabinets were built by Smith Vallee Woodworks, some good friends of ours. I can’t wait to see it all come together. The space is really taking shape.

Tomorrow we start insulation. Here are some pics of Lid Park as it was this evening when I left work.

A few pics of Lid Park…

Today we finished the floor sheathing on Lid Park. Not too impressive to look at but thought I’d post some pics none the less. Notice the floors are now 3′ in the air so that our insulation company can spray in the 3″ of polyurethane foam around the rims of the floor. It will ensure the floors are airtight and add to the insulation R values between floors. Having them up in the air will also be nice for our plumbers on Monday for rough in floor plumbing! There’s also some close up shots of the floor where the roof top deck is going. The joists are smaller and cut at a slope for drainage. This will get sheeted with CDX plywood which is different than the other sub floor. The deck will then get a TPO roofing membrane with a built up cedar deck on top.

We had our first framing inspection today for the Seattle prefab infill project:: Lid Park. Tomorrow morning we start in on floor sheeting. Tomorrow afternoon we will be jacking up the floors for sprayed-in foam to be applied, so once complete we can lower the floors back to the ground for completing the framing. On this home we have been able to use conventional 2×10 doug fir floor joists. Projects past we have used engineered joists.

This green built home is going to be set on an infill lot in Seattle, that is only 20′ wide. The home itself will only be 12′ wide at it’s widest point, but the design incorporates outdoor living spaces such as a roof top deck, which will make the home feel much larger than it actually is. This home is being built on spec by a developer out of Seattle, who is excited to be building prefab. The site is located on the end of a city block, with three neighboring streets surrounding it. Across the street is Lid Park, which will no doubt add a ton of value for whomever shall occupy the home. The house looks south over the busy park, so the design incorporates just enough privacy not only from the public, but also the southern exposure.