I Am WAY Behind

I hope you've been enjoying the Twitter aggregation, considering that's all I've had to offer. We just returned from NYC and Lancaster and a whirlwind work/family/social tour. There's much to blog about I suppose, but I feel like I should try to clear a backlog of photos first.

I've had these house photos from the end of demo and the start of framing for a few days now. We actually went by the house today and it is much further along, but we should look at these anyway. (Still don't have a staircase solution BTW, so if you have a spare, or a guy...)

Pics.

Here's the overview shot with the snazzy sweep-panorama feature on the camera...

You can really see it starting to open up. They have the new paralam beams in and the structural parts of the posts installed. You're looking head on at the prior staircase landing, that had yet to be demo'd out.

Here's the living room from the kitchen door...


and then from the front door...


That plywood is over floor joists we replaced. You can also see again how they took out the whole wall between the kitchen and the living room even though we wanted to keep that one. In the end I think it worked out better for them anyway as they had to redo a bunch of mechanicals that were in that wall and having the access likely made it easier.

Here's the dining room from the front of the house (from in the old bedroom and through what was the old first floor bath)...


Another hole for replacing floor joists. The ones that were under the tub were basically gone. Here's the reverse view, looking toward the front...


Not sure if you'll see it, but there's some belly in this beam that replaced the old partition wall. The first time I asked about it, they said they'd just fir it out flat. The second time I asked they replaced the beam with one almost twice as wide. Guess being a noodge pays occasionally. You can also start to see the new front closet and powder room. Here's a better look...


We decided to turn the existing powder room 90 degrees so the door wouldn't really open directly onto the dining room. That project also gave us a place for a closet as the old one was part of the stair system we've removed.

You can see here the start on boxing out the new structural elements...


Not sure about the beefiness, but it's growing on me. The columns get the same treatment and then everything gets drywall.

And then hopefully a beautiful open stringer staircase.

Things are moving apace in the kitchen as well. Here's one mid-demo...


and here's one with demo complete and some of the new electrical installed...


We're fairly sure we're going to have a really bright kitchen, and that that is a good thing.

Next up? Drywall, cabinets; busy busy busy.