Today, the siding came off the front and underneath was National Gypsum board that was basically sheetrock like you put on the inside of your house. So, that had to come off. Now, it is just wide open. It is shocking to look at.
Tomorrow, the back of the house comes off and they may start moving dirt around for the footings for the back addition which will start to change the way things look a bit. That’s a good thing!
They have actually almost finished reframing the entire upstairs minus the additions. We got to walk through the kids’ rooms, the bathrooms and closets. The new linen closet is there and the new upstairs laundry closet is framed. I am excited to have 2 laundry rooms! The new media room will be located over the garage on the left side and that isn’t built yet and a bathroom will be added over the right roof- also not there today. Upstairs, out the back, 2 baths will bump out the back wall so there are many spaces that are yet to come!
Things look small when there is only framing to look at and you just see right through the “wall”. I keep going back to the plans and remeasuring. I started to panic walking through the new framing hoping everything would be right in the end. I just don’t want to screw it up and working with an existing space, you have to find a way to make it work and options are not unlimited. That’s both a blessing and a curse.
My latest dilemma is trying to make Hudson’s “bunk beds” to work. They don’t even exist yet but I had that in my head that it is what we were doing in his room and I love the picture that I have. The problem is, it doesn’t work in the room that was supposed to be his room. So, I can flip-flop he and Addi’s room but that means the wall for her twin beds would be smaller if I switched them. Her beds are super cute and she has the flower chandeliers from PB Kids that go over her beds and I love them so it’s just comes does to how bad do I really want to have that bunk bed for Hud. Decisions, decisions.
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