Wow! Spring sports have begun, we went on vacation and the builders have made a lot of progress on our remodel. The problem is that I'm finding little time to blog with my busy schedule. Before Easter, cement cutters cut three openings through our basement: a walk-out basement door, a door to the new exercise room, and a door to the cold storage. We left for southern Utah and Las Vegas a few days before Easter. It was snowy and cold, so I was pleased to return home to a porch and flooring for the study. Since then, the exercise room and study have been framed, windows and doors ordered, and the walk-out patio area completed. Only glitch was that the builder had planned to stick frame the vaulted ceiling in the study, but the engineers plan showed it with manufactured tresses. To appease building inspectors, we waited for two days to get a revision letter from the engineers. My hopes are that this week, the roof will be completed over the study. Only negative to that is that the builder's will soon have to break through existing walls on the main floor of my house. A little more inconvenient for me, but nice to be moving along. Here are several pictures to show the progress.
The thing that makes me the happiest is that I can now open my front door without falling to my death. The back still has "death drops" but I'm not longer worried for the neighbors and their pets safety.
Front view of the new porch and the roof begun. In the next few days they will begin to build the new roof for the porch.
View of the addition from the back and side yard.
Interior view of the study. The corner window will be recycled into the north wall of the study.
The 3 squares at the top of the south wall will be a bookshelf wall with three high square to windows.
This view is looking west where there will eventually be french doors to the front yard.
