A Very Productive Week

We had a great week here with the addition. Windows and a back door went in and several walls came out. We've also lost access to our bathroom, so we're down to one tub...upstairs.

Here's the exterior early in the week:

On the inside, the exterior kitchen and master bathroom walls came out, and support beams went in to hold up the house. A last-minute change led to the bathroom beam being nested in the ceiling instead of hanging down. Our awesome architect brought over a structural engineer to confirm our change wouldn't affect the structural integrity adversely. 20 minutes later, we had a new plan! Nesting the beam in the ceiling will really open up the new shower in the bathroom.

Here's the exterior kitchen wall with the outer layer already removed. You can see the spray foam here we added when we renovated the kitchen in 2012. Too bad we had to lose all that nice insulation.

 Here's how the same space looks now - no wall!

And from inside the house, this is the view. Needless to say, tonight's thunderstorm was loud!

From a frame to a structure with a roof!

There's been great progress here on our addition over the last week.

The roof was framed early in the week and the shingles were on by Thursday. There will be four arched windows on this wall but the openings are still covered up. We should get to see windows go in within the week!

The outer wood walls were removed on Friday, exposing the insulation in the kitchen and bathtub in the bathroom.

Also on the schedule for this week is removing this wall, which has the kitchen on the other side of it. Since our laundry room is right below the kitchen, we're trying to figure out a way to fit in a laundry shoot!

From foundation to floor and framing!

Over the past week and a half, the foundation was finished, the floor joists were installed, along with the subfloor, and the framing for the outer walls started to go in. Here's a few shots of the work through today.

This will be the new walk-in shower:

This is the shower from the other angle. The boarded up window is our current bathroom's former window.

This is the view standing in the new nook looking down into the mud room. The opening will be the new back door.

This is what it all looks like from the yard. There will be four arched windows to the left of the door, eventually.

This is all exciting progress. A roof should be on before too long too!