And the Framing Details Continue.

One of the coolest impromptu experiences of the build happened on the Saturday that we randomly drove over and discovered a whole crew at work installing windows and exterior doors! Not pictured: we didn't get our normal snow this winter, but we definitely have gotten a bunch of rain, so it's basically a mud slick out that door. One of the guys bringing the door in totally slipped in it and fell flat on his back in the muck. He wasn't hurt at all except for perhaps his ego, so we all had a laugh. 

This door was originally designed as a sliding door-- and yes, that would have been practical-- but the romantics in us went for french doors anyway. I just keep imagining them propped open in the sunshine, especially after we get our deck built out there. The space that leads to the doors is going to serve as a dining nook for a few years at least. 

We wanted open living in our house, so we added a nook so that we could have a little separation instead of placing our table directly between the kitchen (that dark hole to the left) and the great room. The planned dining room is going to be a TV/ play room instead, and we added an angled peninsula to our kitchen that utilizes some of the gap space in here.

I had never before and will likely never again be so amazed by the installation of pipes and electrical boxes into a space!

We have an upstairs! This was taken from inside the master bedroom and through the framing you can see the top of our stairs, the laundry room (right next to our bedroom on the left in this picture), our daughter's room (to the right of our stairs), and if you squint hard enough I can see my cute soon-to-be middle child who is standing in our planned open loft space and another bedroom right behind him.

And the view from our upstairs balcony into the great room! My absolute favorite thing about this space besides the two-story windows themselves is the way that we angled our house altogether so that they all look directly into the woods. I can't think of a better view to watch the seasons change throughout the year!

This is the flat-on back view of our house. Now imagine it with a desk in the space the right that wraps around the right side of the house, and a low patio across the rest of the back. Also some grass and landscaping. 

The garage side and the top of one of the egress windows in our basement. It's funny how much Tyvek, windows and shingles make a structure start to look like a real house! Maybe we don't need siding after all...