We've Been FRAMED!

The picture below was taken on Friday evening, this is looking out the side of the addition where the deck will be.  The hole on the left will be an awning style window that will open outward.

The rear wall, the solid portion will be where out new gas fireplace will be.  It will be surrounded by windows, and appear to 'float' in space.

Here's the brick wall that will be removed. Inside the door opening you can see plywood, the Commonwealth guys built a temporary wall behind the brick wall so that when it's removed there will be a minimum of dust entering our house.  I was really impressed by this.

So, this is inside the house looking at the temporary wall.  That's the old dining room with that charming foyer fixture we never got around to removing.  Sometimes I can't believe that its taken us 8 years to make these changes, but then I remember that it's taken this long to figure out exactly what we wanted.

This is looking towards the new powder room, the temp wall covers the whole opening to the outside.

M and I had a fantastic weekend, we played in the dirt all day on Saturday and Sunday, and we both got an enormous amount completed.    I was able to finish some stuff I'd been working on in the veggie garden, and M was able to finish things he'd been putting off for a while.  Monday we had a fantastic Memorial Day, we cleaned / paid bills in the morning, then went to a community picnic on Lake Barcroft.  It was a barge party, with 4 party barges lashed together that meandered the Lake for about 2 hours.  Afterward, we went to see "Star Trek" which we heartily recommend if you're into Sci-Fi.

Below, is what greeted us on Tuesday night.  Steve was able, with the help of a very able bodied laborer, to remove the brick wall, it's all in the dumpster now, except for that small portion on the left.

It rained much of the day on Tuesday, but I told Steve that it may have kept the dust down.  He concurred.  Here's the view out the back...it will be very relaxing to sit on the sofa and look out at this.

Below is detail of the roof and the temp wall

This nook will be a nice place to read or do crosswords.

There you have it, so far.  We're now starting our 6th week, so we're roughly at the halfway point.  We saw Alan this morning and he said that once it's all sealed up, they can call in  the subs to do electrical, plumbing and HVAC stuff.

We're doing ok!

S'all for now,

CC