Another Layout Change

One of the things that stood out to us about our General Contractors as we were interviewing different companies was that they had done enough remodels to know that things don't always go exactly as planned. Well, we've hit that stage. Now that some of the upstairs has been framed in we can see that the layout that we had decided on is not going to work. It actually had changed from the layout a few posts ago and now it needs to be revamped again. With the steep pitch in the ceiling it just didn't leave enough room to walk through the bathroom as it was. So in this new plan we will move the hallway over to the other side of the room, which is great because then we can utilize our full ceiling height in the bathroom. To use that side for the hallway though means adding another big shed dormer, which means more expense and we lose some outside asthetics. Usable space is king though when it comes to a seldom-seen back portion of our house, and if we can afford it I think this is the route to go as we will also gain enough space to put in an office nook.

Are We Building a Church?

After a few weeks of little progress our framers are back. Today they got the back wall of the house framed. The plan is that tomorrow they will set the center beam of the roof and then frame out the whole north wall and dormer. And yes, of course I climbed up the ladder to check out the view.

Beau Turns Dos

I'm sure that you all have already figured this out, but time goes by so fast. Beau turned two last week and was very excited about his chocolate Mickey cake that Marta made for him. You can see that he also likes building things and in particual knocking the things down. He spent an hour with two of his cousins, Caleb and Jensen, building towers and then knocking them down. He is all boy.