Harmony Barn Renovation |
 Week 5 Today's work at the barn is dedicated to my late father, Don Chapel. When he wasn't supporting our family being a Minneapolis firefighter, he was a cement man. As firefighters worked every other day for 24-hour shifts, he did cement jobs on the side, often with my brothers. He poured slabs, steps, driveways and also built foundations. I remember him being proud of the manual labor he did - even if it did eventually wreck his body. Today, at literally the crack of dawn, four cement trucks rolled up to the Harmony Barn to start pouring the concrete slab floor. Mark was like a five year-old waiting for Santa, if Santa were to arrive in a cement truck. So this week it will be mostly his photos of The Pour and the work they did to get ready for it by installing the plumbing and radiant heat system. Now the slab will sit and cure for two weeks until it's time to start framing the interior spaces and staining the concrete a couple of weeks after that.
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Jody Chapel & Mark Stevens
In January 2020, my husband and I bought a barn on 10 acres adjacent to our home property near Mancos, Colorado, and asked ourselves, "What do we do with it now? Since then we have renovated the top floor into a vacation rental and are in the process of renovating the bottom/main part of the barn into a gathering space. Join us on our journey! 
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