Days 45-60

Apologies for the past couple of weeks, but it has been crazy around here. I have been taking pictures of everything at the house, so you won't miss anything, I just need to get the pictures up here and explain what you are seeing. The next few are a lot of shots of framing and walls that are kind of hard to make out, but I will do my best to detail all of the work that has happened over the past couple of weeks.

This first photo is looking back through where the kitchen will be. You can see the red wall of the old dining room in the back. The wall going across there is the divider between the foyer and the kitchen. The back left corner will be the powder room.


Taken from about the same spot as the last photo, but turned to the right. This is the dividing wall between the living room and the dining room (former living room). The big metal post is the structural piece that is holding up the steel beam in the ceiling. The post is sitting on a shorter post that goes down to a cement pier that they put where the basement wall used to be.


This is the dividing wall between the living room and the bonus/breakfast/play room (we have a lot of names for it). The plywood is covering the window and door openings for the back wall (on the left).


This is a shot of where they cut the old back wall of the house. You can see the structure of the old house. It was a mix of cinder blocks and brick and was about 12" thick.


This is the window over the sink in the kitchen that we are going to enlarge. Sorry for the bad photo, the lighting in the house is a bit of a mess with the plywood over the windows to keep the weather (and neighborhood kids) out.


The next few shots are of the "tray ceiling" in the master bedroom. The builder actually suggested this to blend the necessary angled coffer on the east wall of the bedroom. Essentially, there is a short angled section at the top of the east wall that allows for the ceiling to be 9' in the new section and tie into the existing roof in a way that looks OK.


Another view of the tray ceiling framing. There will be a gentle slope up to a square 9' high center - like an upside down tray. Hence the name. Or maybe some guy named Trey invented the style. Either way, it will look really nice.


Hyo roughed in the light fixtures in the house (more on that later). This shot shows one of the four that will be in each corner of the "tray".


Another corner of the framing.

A lot has happened there in the past few weeks. HVAC, plumbing and electrical rough in. I have a lot of catching up to do on the blog!