The framers have been making tons of progress on the addition. All the walls and roof have sheathing on them now, so all the cross bracing is gone and you can really get a feel for the new space. In the picture above you can see our new bedroom. They framed the kitchen wall closest to the driveway yesterday, and it is going to look great with the huge window in it, as you can see from the picture below.
The great room is going to be awesome. In the picture below you can really see the kitchen and family room areas well defined. The wall where the girls are standing is going to come out two feet to hide the edge of the refrigerator, and make the rooms even more defined. The family room is just the right size -- big enough for a comfortable couch and some friends, small enough to feel comfortable.
The picture below is of the load bearing kitchen wall that we need to move. We want to put the beam supporting the ceiling joists up into the ceiling, so that is doesn't hang down. The big problem with that is that we need to move the main roof drain, which is the black pipe you can see up in the roof in the picture. We need to move it anyway, because the pipe comes out right over the big window in the kitchen. The solution is to just route the pipe the other way, but I don't want the framers to work on the wall until we move the drain, since there is still no guarantee that it won't rain and I don't want all the water from the roof to pour down into the basement on the water heater and furnace. Adrian the plumber should be coming by next week to move the drain so that the framers can move the wall for us.
Hopefully by the end of next week the current hole in the roof between the family room and kitchen will be gone, the wall will be moved and the front porch will be framed. They may also get the windows in then too!
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