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Progress!

 


Well, we have made some progress!


On Monday and Tuesday they had finished the floor and laid the tops and bottoms of all the rooms out. The floor boards were glued and nailed down and they are tongue in groove type of boards, which I thought was cool. 


The next day they had half the bottom floor framed. They still haven't done the garage walls for some reason. 



The next day, Thursday, they had the entire first floor done except where the staircase is.
This view is the south half of the east facing side of the house (looking at the front - the ramp off the the very far right of the picture is the front entrance.)


This is north side of the house. If you look close you can see the ramp into where the front porch will be. 


This is the northwest corner of the house. The two little boxes are the concrete posts where the back patio will be.


Here is the back of the house. 


This is a panoramic picture of the front of the house so it looks a bit "fish-bowly" if that's a word, but you get the idea.


I saved the best for last. This is the view from the master bedroom window. We will have similar views from the kitchen/dinning room windows as well. I tried to get a picture of those views/windows but somehow it got messed up. I'll try to remember to get one next time. 







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