At the Headwaters

The interior wood work is complete – all but a couple pieces I left open for access to the wiring.  As I’ve written in other posts, I used scrap birch from my friend Peter’s cabinet-making work, and fitted the parts together, making a puzzle piece effect.  It’s not what most folks would do to restore the cabin of a boat, but it is in the spirit of reusing materials, and overall I like how it turned out.  Not to mention I saved a bunch of money. 

For the trim, I used standard quarter inch pine trim from the local big-box hardware store.  Since there are a lot of angles – straight and curved – the trim didn’t go on perfectly or fit like it would have in a normal house, but overall, it really finished it up nicely. 

I used two coats of exterior oil based varnish, figuring that moisture and other elements would be prevalent enough in the cabin that interior varnish wasn’t good enough.  The varnish went on very easily; the only real consideration was making sure we were going with the grain on all the different pieces.