A Few Sticks Are All It Takes?

The header beam for our cathedral ceiling is up!

From the road, it looks like half the roof line is in place. We were really excited to see how it was coming along.

And boy it is high up there! The header is being held by what only looks like a couple of twigs!

Second Floor - Part 4 of an endless number of posts

We really have to come up with a new post title! The second floor isn't exactly complete here (and a week later, still isn't 100%. Building a house is a lot of work!) but as new things start to take shape I'll find new titles. 

We have a fully covered porch and a partial wall above it. This will give us a ton of height in the great room once they add the roof lines on top of that. We have a couple of fixed pane windows that will go in these openings.

Second Floor Part 3 of 4

It has been too long! We had a week of no progress on the house. It was either too rainy or our lead contractor was on vacation, or something. The good news was during this time Liz got a wisdom tooth removed and has recovered wonderfully without missing too much.

They've started on the covered porch and it feels great. Can't wait to have some coffee on a couple of rocking chairs out here. Or sweet tea - since you know - we are in the South now. 

Second Floor Part 2 of at least 4

We had some beautiful 70 degree days this week so Wednesday the crew got SO MUCH done! 

We come right about 4:15 and they were just cleaning up for the day. And look at that - we have the start of our roof line!

Looking down the unfinished space that will be above the garage. Mike is already researching best practices when building a theater room.

Second Floor Part 1 of ???

We have spent every evening at the house. So much has gotten done this week, we are splitting it up into multiple posts - for what was done each day.

This is the photo we keep taking as we pull up to the house every time. I am excited to put these all together at the end and make a time-lapse.

They started on the framing upstairs Tuesday. This is the view from the living room. And, a peak at that staircase *swoon*