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Yesterday I had to make a quick trip out to the house to decide where to put the closet in the upstairs bedroom. We moved the storage closet that was on the exterior wall to the center of the upstairs so it would be accessible from the landing and not my son's bedroom. Despite the temperature hovering in the 20s, the framers were hard at work.

We now have stairs!

 

Here's the room where we changed the layout. I decided the closet would go to the left of the window (there was going to be a small wall there to support the beam above the window--now the wall will have the purpose of framing in the closet). 

Lots and lots of 2x4s! I'm standing in the bedroom, looking out at the storage closet on the left and further through the doorway to the landing. The landing will be the boys' play area upstairs.

Looking into the other bedroom. All of the rafters are site-built. Because of this, there appears to be very little wasted space!

View from below--kitchen on the ground level; landing on the upper level. I love the detail of the peaked roof and bump out for the upstairs landing. I imagine this space to be an airy place for the boys to play. We'll see how it turns out!

View from the back. If you recall from my previous post, we were trying to decide what to do about the back porch. The roof ultimately made our decision--we'll have a deck and a screened-in porch. It's going to be perfect (and as our contractor pointed out to me--the rear elevation will look nice since we're not trying to cover the middle porch). 

View from the other side--upstairs is the bedroom where we had the closet issue. You can also see where the chimney will go (the ladder-looking structure). We chose to brick in the chimney, even though we will be using a wood-burning stove in place of a traditional fireplace.

Other than the changes we made to the plans, the framing has been pretty straight-forward and should be done soon.