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Monday


Upstairs music room is where the window is and the closest room is the loft/movie room.


View from the music room above the garage. 





Still waiting on trusses for the room over the left garage. 



I came by on Wednesday and there was a crew of guys I didn't recognize working and apparently with all the difficulty from last week our crew added some guys and they got moving. The soffits and fascia were going up quick. 




They also got started on the porch.



This is our view to the east. As the sun sets in the west the mountains turn pink. The mountain to the left just changed back to it's normal color but the other mountain is beautiful this time of night.


Same view from the garage.


Same view from the music room above the garage.


Porch from the staircase landing. 


Beautiful sunset to the west. View from the dinning room. 


Thursday had us making even more progress on the back side of the house. 


Today they started covering the porch. 



More work on the back of the house. 


The last set of trusses were brought in over the bedroom over the garage. This is the view from the hallway looking into the bedroom. There is a bathroom on the right and the entrance to the loft/music room area is to the left. 


View from the bedroom down the long hallway. 


View from the music room to the loft and other bedroom. 


This little area was a bonus storage area we found in the loft. We'll add a little door and make it a closet. It's about 6"6' tall.


This is where we left it this afternoon.

We met with the builders on Tuesday and did a framing walkthrough. We made sure the walls in the bathrooms were right and had enough room for the pipes. We talked about lowering ceilings in some areas but didn't really do a lot of that. We were told to expect that in about 3-4 weeks we'll be doing an electrical and plumbing walkthrough. Looking forward to it. 

 

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