Monday, May 14, 2012

Second floor walls...

So, the previous post of today was a bit late in coming... sorry about that everyone!

Now this post is with today's progress!

The second floor walls are beginning to be framed up now. You can see the progress here...



In the next photo the room in the front up there is Rachel's bedroom. You can see the large opening in the middle, that's the window. Both girls' bedrooms have one good sized window each, as well as a small window seat in front of the window. That's why the section of stud wall bumps out a bit so that the window seat can be fit in there.


This next photo shows a similar view of Lyndsey's room wall framing.

 
In this next one you can see the "overlook" from the loft area upstairs down over the living room. The short angled piece of subflooring over on the left side of this photo is the overlook. The rest of that subflooring in this shot will be the edge of Lyndsey's bedroom.


Here's some shots of the front of the house. Now that alot of the first floor plywood sheathing is in place it's really beginning to look like our house from the street.

master bedroom and main entryway (left side of photo)

main entry (middle), den, and Rachel's room (left side)

Rachel's room, den, and garage

In anticipation of the open house this weekend, the girls and I thought it would be a good idea to add some color in place of last year's dead annuals in the front of the house.




More to come soon!

Paul

Second floor framing

The last few days have seen the second floor framing go up!

Once they got all the first floor stud walls framed up they were then able to begin installing the second floor joists and plywood subfloor. You can see the second floor framing sitting above the window and sticking out past the first floor wall a bit.





 It now looks alot different from the inside since the top is no longer all completely open to the sky above due to the second floor flooring.

...the stair stringers seeing their beginnings...
The floor framing for Rachel's bedroom.   

The girls decided to take a break from all their hard exploring and smile for the camera....


The stairs should be going up soon... then we'll be able to get up on the second floor and nose around up there.

In news of our current house, we're having the first open house of "House for Sale, Part Deux" this Sunday... with any luck we'll find that real buyer soon.

Paul