Views from the top

Everybody had to go their seperate ways today, so there was no work done on the house.  I thought it would be neat to show you guys what the views are like from the top.  I realize these are a little pre-mature (no OSB to cover the gaps yet) but I think you'll get the picture ;)

This one is looking out of the bonus room above the master bedroom suite.  The views from the master bedroom and master bath are pretty much the same.

This one is from the window on the loft right as you come up the stairs.  You can pretty much see the entire driveway from here.

This one is looking through the window right next to the one above.  This one is also partially over the loft, and overlooks the driveway as well, but from the right angle you can see the pond pretty well.

I'm sure they'll be more "views to come" in the future!  Stay tuned :)

End Wall Framing

Lunchtime progress:  End Wall Framing to help support the rafters.  Waiting on Basnight to deliver more lumber so the ceiling joists can go in next!

Rafters are going in!

Today at lunch, I was unable to get any pictures due to a dead battery in my camera, however as we were driving up I saw Jeffrey wrestling with the first two rafters trying to get the right measurements and make sure they were in place.  During my visit there, it seemed like a whole lot of up and down up and down, measure, re-measure and the such.  So when I came back out this afternoon, I wasn't exactly sure what I'd see. I was tickled to see this! 

The section you see installed above is the 14' section over the bonus room (garage end of house).  The rafters are Douglas Fir and are beautiful!  They are really going to be pretty on the exposed underside of the overhang off the front of the house.

Upstairs (Today was the back wall)

Upstairs is taking shape!

Lunchtime Progress:  The 100+ degree heatwave we've had for the last week was supposed to be cooled off today by a cold front pushing through the area, however, when 90+ is considered "cooled off" it's still too darn hot!  This past Saturday, we came out to finish nailing down the subfloor for the upper story.  The heat was so bad at 9:00am I literally felt like I was going to pass out after an hour of working!  The heat and humidity today wasn't far from feeling like we were breathing hot water, but the guys were pushing on trying to get the upstairs walls built.  In the pictures below you can start to see the half windows for the 2nd story taking shape, and in the one below that, you can see the 17' 2x10 front wall going in!

OSB and 2nd Story Subfloor

The boys have been busy here lately!  Yesterday they finished up the first round of OSB sheathing on the sides of the house.  Today, they got the last GLU-lam and 2nd story subfloor in, and on top of that they laid off upstairs and put down all the base plates, cut the top plates and cut the some of the studs for the walls.  Next week we should see those last few walls go up, and maybe even see the roof start to take shape!

Framing Update (just pictures)