After the foundation was poured, remember how I was freaking out that it was too small? I recruited my mom and dad to come measure it with me just in case. I was shocked to see they had already started framing. I quickly gave up on measuring and just assumed everything was right. (It was hot and pretty much a done deal at that point anyway.)
5 days later our bottom rooms were pretty much framed out. I still was a little leery about the room sizes, but they definitely didn’t feel as tiny now (also my stomach is huge).
The top story was framed in about 2 days. There were still some framing details going on over the next couple of days, but I felt like it went up so quick. While the framers were still onsite, I made a list of things that needed to be changed or that I had questions about, so I could go to my builder immediately.
In the office, I noticed our floor outlet was missing. This was a big bummer to Nick who has plans to center his desk in the room. Luckily we can still have an outlet there without cutting into the cement and running new electrical since we are putting wood floors in there. The outlet can just be run under the flooring. (Collective sigh of relief.)
Our hallways had an eyebrow arch instead of a fully rounded arch. There’s nothing wrong with eyebrow arches, but we wanted a full arch. Not a difficult change, but so glad we caught it.
Admittedly this is difficult to see, but this was dead space where the AC return vent was supposed to go. I asked if we could put that somewhere else and use this space. We could! I had them take one side off to make it into a bookshelf off the kitchen (across from the pantry). This also means I don’t have to put a bookshelf in the island. Yea for more drawer space!
There was more dead space between the walk in shower and master closet. I asked that it be removed, so I could mount a full length mirror or something in there. It did cut down a little on the shelving ,and we had to move the switches (oops). However I think I will like the slight layout change better in the end.
The windows in the master were supposed to be a little longer. This was a change we made in our window meeting. It wasn’t conveyed to the framers. No biggie deal though. It’s a simple fix that would have been discovered when the windows came in anyway.
The biggest punch in the gut came with the master ceiling. I swear I took a million pictures of this that are no where to be found, so sorry you’ll have to imagine a little with me since it’s “fixed” in this picture. Originally the plans showed the ceiling as trayed even though we asked for vaulted ceilings twice during the design phase. Somehow they never got changed.
Well the problem with the trayed ceiling is they started about 4 feet into the room (see arrow). We debated on whether we should just keep the irregular tray ceiling and just enjoy the height it brought to the room. Once we looked at how the electrical was going to have to be done, we immediately decided it was best to just frame the master for 10 foot ceilings. It was a sad day, but there was absolutely nothing that could be done about it. (Tip: Reading house plans is so difficult. Have your builder/architect explain every freaking line to you because it ALL means something!)
The plywood started going on once all the inside was framed out.
About a week later our house on the hill looked like this once you rounded the corner of the subdivision. The framing took a little less than 3 weeks to complete. We have a full VIDEO (!!!!!) walk through for you tomorrow.
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