Day 11 & 12 - 9/18-9/19/2010

On Saturday, things started looking up... literally.

The crew showed up nice and early, especially for a Saturday.  They continued to work on the framing.  One of the first items was to frame just enough the the stairs to make platform for the crew to get up and down to the second level.  To get upstairs we have to climb the frame of the lower steps and then climb a ladder and through the "wall" into the new storage room.

The beginning of the stairway

They put down floor of the upper level over the floor joists that were installed on Friday and started framing the walls of the second story.  We can actually see the dimensions of the various rooms.  That is so exciting.

The beginning of the second story

At the end of the day, Andy climbed up into the second story and tooks some pics.  As you can see, the blue tarp is up for the rest of the weekend and the pics have a blue tint.

Looking through the wall of the storage room down into the foyer and into the kitchen

Looking into the east side of the office with lots of supports to keep the walls up for now

The west side of the office.  There will be pocket doors here.  There are two small closets on this end in each corner.

We are extremely excited about this new office.  The will be two sets of double windows overlooking the pool where we think we will have our desks.

One of the office double windows

One thing is always in need is storage. Upstairs, Ryan designed in a nice-sized storage room. In addition, there will be a door from the nook into the attic where there is a good amount of room for storage.

The storage room.  Monica has claimed this for all of her scrapbooking paraphernalia.

This is the nook which will likely be the exercise room.  The door to the attic will be to the left and the stairs will be on the right.  The air conditioning vents have not fared very well.

There was some progress on Andy's personal master bath project.  On Saturday he drove out to Keller to Absolute Stone to pick out some granite for the vanity counters.  Mike Mendoza is a really nice guy.  He helped Andy narrow it down to two stones.  He alone is responsible for final choice.

This is the slab from which the two vanities will be cut.  It is real bold patter.

Andy also ordered accent tiles for the tub surround and even possibly some on the floor.

Style one of the bathroom accent tiles

Style two of the bathroom accent styles

Andy is thinking about using very light beige tumbled stone tiles of various sizes accented with these two types of accent tiles for the tub surround.

Next week, the roof should go on and they will start working on the plumbing and electricity.  Unfortunately, the blog posts could get a bit boring... nothing real exciting about wires and pipes.