While we were in Canada enjoying cool weather and mountains, work got started on framing walls. Essentially all the walls are framed with only door entries to be adjusted to actual door sizes. All the patio doors and window openings are framed out.
Tuesday this week they are making a few adjustments we identified (some their mistakes and some changes just identified as we saw walls). They also will have a steel fabricator onsite to build the supporting structure for the main beam in the living/dining/kitchen space. Roof framing will also start this week and likely go one through end of next week. it’s great to see progress and much easier to picture things when you can walk through the spaces. We’ve got some pictures but in photos it’s a bit hard to identify things through the sea of framing studs.
In the mean-time, we’re working again on trying to find tile and light fixtures. We both seem to be over-saturated with potential ideas.
This is a view of the Living/Dining/Kitchen space - from kitchen corner facing towards the windows & patio door to what’s left of our backyard. The pipes sticking up out of the floor are where the kitchen island will be.
This picture is from one backyard patio facing the larger backyard patio. The front half of the space across the wet pit is patio and the workshop is behind it with a large opening for a glass garage door and then a standard exterior door on the right.
This is primary bedroom from the door. The large opening across the room is a patio door going out to patio in photo above. In the back you can see the closet that runs along the back of the room.
This is the primary bathroom taken from inside the linen closet. You can see the toilet plumbing in the water closet on the left. The pool of water next to that is where the shower will be (it’s recessed as the shower will be curbless. The pipe sticking up in the upper middle is where a freestanding tub will go (in front of the window). There will be vanities all along the wall on the right.
This is a photo of the gym. The door into the room is on the left (with the door to primary bedroom just beyond that). The closet for the room is just to the right of the door with the linen closet for primary bath just beyond. The primary bath is in the background.
This is a picture of the utility room from the hallway door. The powder room door is on the left and the opening beyond that is for a fridge. The right wall will be all cabinets, washer/dryer, and “lockers” with a bench for putting on shoes. The First head directly in the middle is the old exit to patio and that will go away along with the supporting posts on the left of it. The door on the far end goes out to the smaller patio. Just in front of that on the left is a door to the garage that isn’t visible right now due to the old framing. The floor in here is a hodgepodge and will be leveled (and some of it chipped up) prior to tiling.