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Interior Tour of Modular Home

Bob begins the final an interior tour of the modular home project in the Berkshire Hills. The interior doors are Woodport MDF panel doors with M-tech hardware. M-tech specializes in antique reproduction hardware. Bob points out that many of the home�s features, like the Merillat cabinets and the staircase were installed in the factory and are complete. However many of the finishing touches, such as the spindles on the stairway banister, the appliances and the paint that would have been added on site are sitting warehouse style, in the living spaces.
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Interior Tour of Modular Home

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" Although the exterior of our house is very very complete and tight to the weather. The inside is two months behind schedule some of the things are going in as we speak we've got a beautiful. Woodport doors that are being installed some of the Middle East and these are MDF doors with a nice paneled look and I'm very excited about the M tech. Door knobs this is a company that's recreating some of these. High quality hardware of the early twentieth century in America I love the glass -- other features are in I mean our staircase was built in place at simplex industries a modular home company but the detailing like the spindles on the Bannister have been applied. Here on the job. And in the main room here though you get a better idea of how far behind things are. Some of the rough hasn't been completed never mind the finish there's a great deal of us. Bob warehouse use to the space in that much of which you see here just is waiting to be installed and the dining area is again just become. A warehouse area the kitchen is incomplete. In fact we've got all the materials here here's some of that category five wire most of the house that it pre installed at simplex. It's amazing how many components of the house were put together at simplex including all the Merillat cabinets in the kitchen back here in the island. And of course we got all the other materials here including my paints but nothing's been installed are."

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