Repairs
The house continues. When we drive up, it's not as obvious anymore that work is happening, since the exterior has remained essentially the same for more than a week now. This was expected, of course, but still makes it less exciting to park the car and see the same house. Brick will be awesome, when it arrives.
We have two doors now, a nice one in the back and this lovely fake door in the front.
The problem studs in the guest bathroom have been reinforced sufficiently.
And the rafter that will hold the weight of half the brick on the back of the house has also been reinforced so that it meets code.
They're scheduled to do insulation and sheetrock this week, so things will start to change rapidly on the inside. After wandering around the house so many times in the framing stage, I expect it to look a lot smaller once there are solid walls that we can't see through. Then again, walls means we're one step closer to me being able to relax after work and sip margaritas on our awesome patio. :)
awesome that they fixed everything so far! what's the plan for the roof.
also i left a comment on flickr about drapes on those baack windows. what are you thinking? i have a husband with the time and inclination to sew and I can't figure out how to drape my set of three windows and looks like you have the same thing
I haven't thought about curtains yet. My off-the-top-of-my-head idea would be to run a curtain rod across the top of all 3 windows and have 4 floor-length curtains that hang on both sides of and between each window.
Oh, and they haven't done anything to fix the roof yet. It's a big concern for us, but didn't need attention ASAP like the studs did, since the roof won't be covered up by sheetrock (obviously). They know our issues with the roof and we'll make sure they get addressed before the second inspection.
Hey, your fake front door looks just like our fake front door did!