After stripping all the spray foam out from between the logs, I washed the logs with Simple Green, put on a new coat of low-gloss but smooth and cleanly reflective darker stain to cover any streaks and discoloration, and painted the inside if the chinking brown, along with any foam residue. Also ripped out the too-small loft to open up the space.
The COVID-19 pandemic has us at home together, and shopping for materials would be frivolous right now, but eventually the next steps will be fashion some shelves along the edge of the old loft, frame in windows, fill in the gutter-like cavity between walls and floor with smooth, brown-or-adobe-stained concrete, and coat the floors with high-gloss marine polyurethane.
Then, I'll add enough electricity for lights and internet (no appliances), and a small propane heater for the wintertime.
Now, it's clean and set for off-line work projects like authoring group emails, working on PowerPoints, or analyzing data during what could be an otherwise long, lonely springtime. The good news is that it's anything but bleak in Coldholler, and we have each other!
