More framing

I spoke to the nice lady who lives next door to the Avery Street house today about a piano related issue, and she asked me, "Have you seen your house lately?" Well, DUH! Here are today's pictures. I just got back from there and Matt and I were walking through the rooms downstairs. I don't know if he really recognized the place, but he traipsed right up the steps (after I took a picture of him on them) like he knew where he was going. The area where the house is going up is so completely different from what he knew that I'm sure he didn't realize that that's where he grew up.

Anyway, today was more framing on the downstairs, starting on the wall underlayment (don't know if that's a word), and installation of the columns. There are 16 of those. The ceilings downstairs will be 10 feet, and I love how high they look. the builder talked us out of putting a transom window above each of the regular windows, but I wish now I had insisted. He said it would be unnessary and a big added expense so I gave in, but I would have loved that extra light and the way it would have looked. Oh well...













The east wall. The kitchen door is the last opening. Two windows open into the dining room.






The west porch columns going up.



One window. Ceilings are 10'.




This magnolia tree is growing over the treehouse area. The blooms always make me feel really southern and they always remind me of the Lansing family in Raleigh.







These ferns are "garden escapes" from a pot of fern I had growing near the old fountain. this is looking down from the house site to the bottom of the stairs, and the ferns are covering that hill. The stobs you can just barely see are from the azalea "trees" that I cut back just a few weeks ago.