Tuesday, June 10, 2008

They're Heeeerrrrreeeee........

Did all New Englanders hear a great big audible 'hooray' this morning around 6:50 am?! Normally, I'm not that excitable, it's a tad early, but here's what I saw out my window:
Yes, construction has started. Our Masonary was out last week and completed the foundation for our garage.
Normally, a six inch perimeter is laid to build on, but we're adding transom windows atop our garage doors
(like this)
and needed an extra two feet - so essentially our first floor walls will be ten feet tall vs eight. The second floor will be traditionally eight.

We left the portion of the original garage that was not effected by the collapse up (the two story garage with loft). Our plan is to take down the walls of the loft and attach it via breezeway to the new garage. We'll transform the front portion into a screened in area and the back room into a work room (yes, you must have 'vision' to get the idea).

It's supposed to be sunny all week and our contractor is estimating a week to completion. I'll be back with updates :)

1 comment:

Valerie said...

A big collective "YEEHAW!!!!" has gone up from Oklahoma on your behalf. Did ya' hear it? ;)

I do know your excitement -- we finally have guys coming in the next two weeks to picket fence in our front yard. But I am jealous of your screen porch and breezeway -- two things I would love to have! And yes, you'd better post pictures of the finished product.