All Framed Up

 At noon today, this is what the house looked like.  The framers had put up a lot of the trusses and finished all of the walls in the house.  I couldn't believe that they were not using any sort of machine to lift the trusses into place, but were doing it all by hand.  It was very intersesting watching them do this and I wished I didn't have to go back to work and could have watched them longer

 The back of the house still needed to have the trusses put up but the ceiling for the covered back porch was in place.  I asked the builder to install a switch and stub out for the in-ground pool that will go in next spring.  I want to be able to control the pool lights from the inside.  It pays to think ahead!

The master bedroom now looks much larger than I thought it would be.  There will be a 9 foot ceiling in the bedrooms but the master has a large tray the goes up one more foot and will have crown molding halfway up with rope light behind it shining up into the tray.  I can't wait to see it finished!

In 3 short days, we went from having nothing but a concrete slab on our lot to this.  As of about 5:00 this evening, the house is almost completely framed.  The framers were putting the last couple of trusses in place while we were there.  Julie's sister, Jenny met us out there and I got to show her around the house and point out what all the different rooms are.  The guys framing the house are very nice and do not seem to mind us dropping by occasionally to observe their work.  Any apprehensions I had about the size are certainly gone now.  It really does put things into perspective the that gets added to the home.  This was the first time that Julie got to walk around inside of it since it has been framed too.  I know that she is very excited now as well.

The builder told me today that the framers plan on working on Saturday too in order to finish it all up before next week.  He has the plumbing schedule for Thursday and I'm sure many other things that I don't know about yet.   I have been told that once the frame is up, your house is about a third of the way done so I am careful not to get too eager to be complete.  I know there is a lot more ahead of us but that's the exciting part!