April 28, 2009: Roofing begins

We came out in the evening on Tuesday and some of the roofing had begun with the initial skeleton beginning to fill in as well as some additional work on the second level.

View of the house from the road. You can see where some of the key support elements of the roof are up as well as the front gable over the bedroom over the dining room.

View of the house from the tree at the northeast corner of the lot. While the roof structure is going up, there's still some framing work to be done on the second floor.

View of the house from the brush pile (from the West). From this, you can see that the great room is going to have a rather high vaulted ceiling.

View of the backside of the house. The bumpout is built up now, though a differently sloped roof will be over this side of the house.

Looking at some of the initial roofing sections in the great room as well as some of the scaffolding used to work on the roof.

Looking at the roof over the great room, looking back into the house. There's actually going to be a roof at one height over the great room and a roof at a different height over (most of) the rest of the house.

Some of the strings used to help guide the positioning of roof members in the great room.