The Master Bedroom

 Here is how the master bedroom is looking as of May 20:

The sliding glass door still looks huge 

The ceiling is high in this room, too

It looked a little different on April 27:

Insulation in the interior walls 

And, more insulation in the interior and exterior walls 

And, here is how it looked on April 9:

We could still see into the great room 

It's nice to know where the wiring is 

More wires 

The Laundry Room

The laundry room in both our rental and the Westminster house was essentially a closet.  While it was nice to close the door and forget the messy laundry, it was very cramped for space and not very efficient. I'm so looking forward to having an actual laundry room like we had in the Longmont house. 

The laundry room is currently looking like this:

This is how the laundry room looked on April 27:

And a few views of how the laundry room looked on April 9:

Just a few wires 

The light fixture housing 

The Great Room

The temporary front door has a lock on it.  When Geff unlocked it and opened the door on Saturday, May 20th, this was the view that greated us:

Great room from the front door

All I can say is:  Wow.  It looks so different with the drywall up and a coat of paint.  It feels a whole lot more real.  In the photo above, a set of cabinets will be below the window on the right.

We walked through the master suite first, and then returned to the great room.  This next photo was taken from the kitchen end of the great room, looking west.  The framed, but not drywalled, section is where the gas fireplace will go.  The ceilings are so high that it makes the whole room feel huge.  

Great room from the door back toward the second and third bedrooms

After taking the photo of the fireplace area, I took a picture toward the front of the house.  Again, the high ceiling really makes the room feel huge.

From the northeast corner of the great room looking toward the front of the house

This photo is from just inside the temporary door looking straight east into the dining room.

The dining room part of the great room

And, lastly, the kitchen area of the great room.  The stove will go under the vent that is visible near the door and the refrigerator will go about where the rightmost outlet is.  The kitchen sink will be in the island above the pipes that are coming out of the floor on the left side of the picture.

The kitchen area

Compare these photos to the next set, which were taking on April 27:

The northwest window of the great room

The fireplace is on the left of the picture

Another view of the fireplace

Looking toward the front door

And, then compare that to how the room looked on April 9:

The rafters

From the front door looking to the north

The wiring on the kitchen side of the room

More wiring on the kitchen side of the room

And, yet more wiring on the kitchen side of the room

The wiring under the north window.

The wiring for the stove

The wiring and plumbing for the kitchen island

Yet more wiring on the kitchen wall

The west wall of the great room looking into the master bedroom.

The wiring between the great room and the master bedroom

One of the lights

The wiring next to the fireplace

The wiring next to the west window

The wiring directly to the right of the back siding door

The view of the front of the room

The great room is definitely coming along well.

So Much Progress--So Few Updates

I've taken pictures of the house over the past month,  but for some reason, I didn't get around to update this blog. I'm going to do this a little differently. The next few posts will show the various updates room by room (or area).

The outside of the house has had fewer changes over the past month. 

The view from the driveway 

The front porch is long 

I love the ceiling 

And, a real door will replace the plywood.