No Pain No Stain

This past weekend did not include a trip to the ranch, but instead a full day of work in Austin preparing the interior paneling for the container cabin. We are using plywood to cover the walls and ceiling, but are trying to paint and pattern it to be more modern and less woodsy.

First we ripped down about twenty-five 4' x 8' sheets of plywood into 1' x 8' strips to use as individual panels for the cabin walls. Then we set to staining all of them, and we even had some help this time from a few of the locals.

We chose four different semi-transparent wood stain colors in muted colors -- charcoal, light greenish-gray, and blue for the walls, and a grayish-white for the ceiling.

After the panels dried, we loaded them all back onto the trailer. Next weekend we will take all the panels to the ranch and start installing them in a pattern on the walls. We are still figuring out what the pattern will be, so stay tuned to see how that turns out.