Roof framing in the works

This week a fair amount of the roof framing went on the house. It was cold and rainy for several of the days, so I'm a bit surprised some of it was completed. They have constructed all sorts of crazy catwalk / scaffolds throughout to aid in the roof framing. The highest ones are beckoning Ryan. Shocker. They terrify me, but the higher the better for that child!

Here is how it looks this week....

The dormers are not on the upper level, and not on the 2nd floor gable yet. No roofing over the keeping room/ kitchen area yet, but they do have a center beam running the length of that gable.... I have no idea how they got that in place, nor can I imagine how they got the upper beam / joist (whatever it is called) into place at the top of the house.

The window in the upper bonus room which was going to have such a beautiful view out to the horse pastures doesn't look as good now because the window is awfully high.... darn, but not worth changing since this will be an unfinished space anyway. If you are near the window, it is fine, but when you walk into the room that pretty view isn't obvious. Oh well....

Nick and I met with the cabinet guy this week. We have made lots of tweaks to our cabinet plans which should save us some money in the budget. I am a bit sad to give up the banquette drawers for a fixed banquette, but the cost saving allows me to get an entire laundry room of cabinetry. That will be nice. We are going to delete a "hutch" type of cabinet in the kitchen to save money, knowing that we will be able to find a neat antique to put there instead. We are going to make the linen closets in our master bath framed and drywalled, vs. cabinetry which will save enough to allow us to put in a basement bar, and a few other little tweaks like that. They seem to be worthwhile, and I don't think we will really miss that cabinetry too much....

Our master bath shower is causing me trouble. It is framed with some weird angled walls (per the plans). The tile lady said, "you are not an angled wall kind of person." This is true and she convinced me that we should just have squared off walls in this shower. I have asked Lloyd to change it. He accepted the changes (actually all 16 of my questions), and let me know that they'll get to these things a bit later (like on a rainy day). The only change that they questioned was related to this shower because the angled walls were a bit complicated, and now we want them torn out. That made us take another look at it today and now we are thinking we should keep the angled walls as is, but then we have no soap / shampoo shelf unless we have some sort of bench.... anyway, we have gone around and around about how to set up this shower.... and it is just a shower! Stay tuned.... (I know it is hard to stand the suspense)!

That is about it for the week. Hope to see it entirely under roof soon. That will be nice. It was freezing today, so we want a roof, insulation and windows asap!