wall sheathing in progress
second floor joists
our week's work done
lunch spot at our lake
lunch, mmmmm...
Although it ended with clouds overhead we enjoyed another week of unusually sunny skies to work under and were able to accomplish a great deal. We started the week sheathing the exterior of the first floor with plywood. We then used a router to open up the windows and doors. Then it was time to move inside where we began the framing of the interior walls, first the load bearing walls, tying them into corresponding wall top plates. Next we framed up our non-load bearing walls, really a lot of fun as it began to give shape to the layout of the first floor - it’s very spacious! We tried something fun with the transition between the mudroom and the living room; both of us have a love of books and we framed out a 2 x 12 dividing wall between the two rooms. On the larger half of the living room side, there will be bookshelves built into this extra deep wall, and on the shorter side of the mudroom, we’ll frame in drawers to contain hats, gloves, scarves and that sort of “mudroom stuff.” It should work out well and give the house an extra deep entrance between the spaces.
Today, to round out the week, we began installing the joists for the second floor. We expect to make good progress with this tomorrow as the layout is now largely done and that is always the most time consuming part.
Last exciting news of the week is that the garden, newly planted last week in traumatized soil, has begun to sprout! This is always a joyous occasion and it's sprouting so fast. More next week!
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