Week End

Today we are heading out to Lowes and Ikea so that we can start brain-storming.  Henry says that one of the biggest construction hold-ups are indecisive homeowners.  We need to be ready to make a lot of decisions, very quickly.  Anyone who's been grocery shopping with me knows that I could easily spend 15 minutes picking out mustard... so we figure the sooner we start, the better. Today, we'll focus on possible kitchen layouts/designs and check out flooring. I will let you know how it goes but, for now, I leave you with a picture re-cap of the week...

After we tackled the kitchen floor at the beginning of the week (previous post), it was time to address the living area.  The plan was to sister the existing joists until we realized that they were water damaged and had signs of extensive termite damage.  All of it had to come out, leaving this beauty of a hole.

The reason that it looks so deep is because there is a "basement" in this section of the house.  A new floor was built the same way that the kitchen/dining room was and now it looks just as good.

You can all guess where this story is going... ALL of the floors had to come out.  At the point we have come to, this information was neither shocking nor surprising. However, the view from the first floor is!

The only other decision we made this week was to put an opening in the ceiling near the side entrance.  This will create a balcony on the second floor looking down onto the first floor. Here it is framed out:

Henry and Sam came up with the idea while trying to solve a problem involving ceiling height. We thought this would make a nice, unique feature.  Nice work, guys.