We've been working non-stop on getting our house buttoned up and working through every decision/issue/problem/god.damn.thing in the past 2 weeks. We have also had good steady progress, which is always good. The reason we are working so much now is to enable a few key items for our comfort/happiness and also because Lance is getting knee surgery on Oct 30. He decided to delay this surgery about 6 weeks so we could finish the siding where the new fence connects to our house to keep dogs in backyard. Hallelujah!
I'm so tired, that I will just let the pictures speak (mostly) for themselves.
Here is where we were:
This was the beginning of making the bonus room.
Thank goodness the weather was good! It was COLD, but no rain while the roof was off and new structure being built. Sara for scale. ;)
New framing is happening!
And like we didn't have enough going on - we built this new propane gas firepit area with flagstone and we ordered a Costco gazebo (which came in 42,000 parts).
And the roof came in ~4" sections and had plastic that needed to be removed from both sides! Thank goodness Sara was such a proficient expert in removing plastic wrap!
Starting to look really real. Behind the scenes we had to adjust the plans a bit. For the bonus room framing on the inside, which was a vaulted ceiling (oh the irony), we had to adjust how the dormer came out. We were supposed to have a little bump out there, but instead we have a flat wall. So, maybe about 2 sq feet more of living space! Yeah us! It's actually a very stressful situation when you get asked to make an on the spot decision.
Lance is one tired guy!
demo and framing up of our new mudroom
Just in time.
They cut a new door to reach the bonus room and the view from this room is going to be amazing!
These are the windows on the "north" side of the house. Which is really NE, so it gets confusing sometimes.
Here is the new door right next to Alex's room at the end of the hallway. We "borrowed" the laundry room old door as a temporary barrier. Alex's room is definitely the cold one at night with this new insulated space right next to him
more rain. yeah... this story keeps getting better and better!
My new kitchen window gets framed and ready for window installation.
New windows in the front/living room.
Better and better (precision to how much actual rain and how long we would get it for).
They framed up the new tiny roof over my kitchen window, but we have a problem.... it sticks out too far. So, we are going to shorten it up and hope we don't have to raise it. We want that view to be unobstructed.
This beam is going to cost us to move....
As is this one....
More photos from upstairs new bonus room.
And what I've been foreshadowing for this whole entire post now.....
Leaking
Me and my siding tool - I'm such a freakin' dork. And yes, this is how I look on a Sunday afternoon... I realized after I saw this picture that I need to remove that Lacrosse player thing.... so annoying and nowhere to put it right now...
And Sara got to do some siding with her Daddy using the nail-gun
Lance in our new storage rafter place above our new 3rd car garage. This is going to be SO awesome!!!!! All of our decorations, camping gear, storage that only comes out 1/year... the list goes on and on what we will put up here. It's a nice big storage space and I'M SO GLAD I pushed to have those windows added up there!
