Windows, Doors and Interior Framing

It is funny how the addition project has gone into overdrive so quickly. After months of standing at a spot in the yard and telling friends "We'll this will sort of be the corner..." we can now open the kitchen door and walk out into a enclosed space.

Right now most of what is happening is pretty straight forward. While the changes are reasonably dramatic, well, there is only so much to be said about a wall or door. So, in this post we are going to go a bit Children's Television Workshop on the topic and play a game we call Inside/Outside.



Inside - Patio door

Outside  - Patio

This is the new patio door. Looking out from the inside, only the far left panel moves. This lets a huge amount of light in. The plan is to make a patio on the outside once Spring rolls around. (mmmmm spring rolls...)

Inside - Utility room wall

Outside - back of addition

The door for the utility room will be the "mud entrance" for the house. Luck for us, we have plenty of mud right now. The door itself is pretty neat in that it has built in blinds so theoretically, they will stay clean and in perfect working order forever. I know this to be a fact and I will not even begin to entertain the possibility that anything will ever go wrong with them.

Inside - Long view

Outside - Short side of addition

If you could look through the windows on the short side of the house (which, well you can, but I'd yell at you to get off my lawn), you'd get the long view across the three room. Nearest is the den, then the utility room then the kitchen/dining room area.

The middle wall has the plumbing for washing machine and dryer as well as the water supply for an outside faucet running along it. The plan for the next week is to get drywall up on the inside part of that wall so that the washer and dryer can move out there and work on the doorway and 3/4 bath can take place.

One more picture. Because we went with the slab being flush with the house; we need a lot of fill dirt to grade the yard away from the addition. Lucky for us, we just happened to know someone who had just dug a ginormous hole and needed someplace to put the dirt.