Independence

This morning we were alerted that there was a crane “flying trusses” to deliver the pre-assembled roof framing to our new home, so we headed over to watch. After lunch we returned, and the final structure of our new home was complete already!

 

With permission from the workers (who were getting their own lunch), we climbed their ladders and had our first view of upstairs – including finally a look out of what will be our master bedroom window, looking to the beautiful wetlands view behind:

 

Once this construction has been inspected and signed off, attention will focus on the interior with plumbing, electrics, heating/cooling; and then eventually the interior framing will become actual walls, while the exterior gets weather protected …

While we still can’t check out the upstairs of our new home, since there’s no stairs built yet, we can see that the walls are close to complete – and there’s lots more framing details downstairs too!

Here’s tonights view of our new home; you can get a better idea of it’s final size now, and see the sloped lower roof above the garage, and at the back, some framing for the upstairs balcony:

 

Inside, the triple arch framing between formal “living” and “dining” rooms, and framing for the kitchen:

We still need the roof framing, interior walls upstairs, and the staircase!

We returned to Independence today to see how much more work had been done since Friday, and there’s some upstairs walls constructed now – but quite a few more days work before there’s a roofed structure!