We've Been Framed!

Ladies and Gentlemen, you are looking at the rough in of the bathroom! In the middle of the framing, you have an the opening (24 inches, in case you wondered) for the door. To the left of the opening, you can see the circle drain in the floor for the fancy square loo we bought. The floating vanity will be opposite the loo, above the air duct. To the right of the door will be the entrance to the shower that measures 36 inches wide and 60 inches long. It is a large shower. Still, the bathroom is about 12 feet long and 6 feet wide and will be contained within the area that is formed from the new dormer. A smaller bathroom than originally planned, but we sacrificed it in order to maximize space in the bedroom.

Also, you can see where they have framed out the air duct in the sitting area of the bedroom for a window seat.


This is the southeast corner of the house and will be a corner in the bedroom. This will be a knee (half) wall, and on the left, we will have a bank of 18 inch-deep drawers. The studs on the right will just be a wall. We have an access panel to the air duct on the area perpendicular to the window seat, the end of which you can see on the edge of the photo to the right.
Here, you are looking to the stairs from the sitting area outside of the bathroom. Eventually the studs to the left of the yellow ladder will be replaced with another half wall, so you will see into the bedroom as you come into the space.

Here is just another shot of the sitting area outside the bathroom. This will be the straight-ahead view from the bed. The door to the bathroom will open into this space. No pocket doors-- you lose too much space in the bathroom in order to make the cavity into the which the door would slide.


This photo looks to the front of the house, westward, or, facing the street. This is the closet area. At the moment, we don't have studs indicting where the closet starts--that will come tomorrow-- but what I wanted you to see is the ceiling. They took out several small studs that formed a low ceiling, and vaulted it. This space will be rather small: much smaller, we think, then what we had originally posted, so the added height will be nice. Still, just like in the original plan, the wall of the closet will be perpendicular with the wall that backs up to the shower.

And, finally, the money shot: the main room with the newly vaulted ceiling. Originally, studs were fixed across the entire space for a ceiling at 7 feet and really weren't there for support of the roof. With them removed, we have a ceiling height of at least 10 feet at the ridge line. You can look back and see the studs here, after we had the old walls, etc. removed. You are looking directly east, to the back yard. The bathroom (or the wall that is the back of the shower) is to the immediate right; the bed will be to the left, just past the yellow ladder; and the closet is immediately behind you.

These guys are moving right along. By the end of the week, we should have it all plumbed, wired, and framed.