Basic Walls

Today's progress seems to be bigger than it really is, but we have the beginnings of the walls for the new bathroom and the coat closet.  One can now see how the layout really will work and just how wide doorways and powder rooms are going to be. 

In the case of the powder room, not very wide at all.  It is the smallest that is allowed by code, basically about 3 feet wide. 

Here is another view. The door to the loo will be to the left and those windows are being blocked up. The toilet will run parallel to the windows.





















Opposite the bathroom is now the coat closet that will actually fit a hanger!  In this photo, technically, the blue ladder is *in* the closet.  If this was completely finished already, one would see french doors instead of the ladder.

Also, one can see the new opening (just off the to the right edge of the photo) into the dining room.

 

At the back of the house, we have a partial new header in, allowing one of the temporary support walls to be removed.  

Until the two radiator pipes (the black pipes) are moved, the other temporary wall has to stay.  Once those pipes have been moved, the other part of the header will be added and then the temporary support wall can be taken down.  (This photo is taken standing in Will's office, looking into the kitchen.)

Hopefully the photo below will give you a sense of the new layout for the cooking area.  You can see the stud that makes the corner of the new bathroom on the left hand side of the picture.  In front of that corner will be a cabinet.  Backing up to the bathroom is the dishwasher and then the sink--where the solid wall is now but a new window will be.  Where the copper pipe is now, the trash cabinet will be located and that single window is also blocked up.  Then comes the stove, the center of it located in the former doorway of the old bathroom.  Does any of that make sense?

Tomorrow, fingers crossed that the plumber can come and remove all the pipes.  Then, they can address the removal of the brick pillar/insertion of a new steel beam, as well as finish opening up that area in the back.