On May 2, the completed portions of the roof had
roofing felt installed, work on the two dormers progressed and there was backfilling around the front of the house in anticipation of brickwork.
View of the house from the tree at the northeast corner. You can see where the portions of the roof that are completed have their felt paper on, the dormer work that occured on the bedroom, and the remaining pile of dirt after backfilling most of the front of the house.
View of the house from the road.
View of the house from the Southwest. You can see where the felt on the roof is up and most of the southside dormer, while the gable on the great room is not yet completed. [While it's a
gabled roof, the wall between sloping edges of the roof is called a
gable.]
View of the great room dormer from the inside. It's not a real big window (there's enough of those in the great room) and won't give a very good view, but it will help bring light into the room.
Detail view of the dormer and the felt paper on the south side of the great room. Those orange circles are pieces of plastic that the nails are sitting. Basically that spreads out the surface area of the head and reduces the chance for ripping when winds come along (like this next week's storms) before the shingles go on.
View of the great room from an upstairs bedroom closet. While this probably gives you the best perspective of both the great room and it's dormer, it will be closed off soon, so it's likely the last time you'll see this view.
Detail view of the bedroom dormer from the inside. At least for the space on the right, we're going to case it in for a little extra storage.
Detail view of the bedroom dormer on the East side. There still the roofing to be completed and the plywood siding, but the shape is clear.
Backfilling along the front of the house near the garage. The ledges are where the bricks will be layed.
Backfilling against the front entrance. A little more dirt is going to be needed along the front still. You can also still make out where the french drain running along the base of the foundation in the vbottome right of the picture (seen as white stones with mesh with the perforated pipe covered.).
Since I don't think I've posted a picture of it in the past, here's the septic line coming out underneath the foundation wall on the West side of the house.
View of the entrance to the house. Bottom left is the dining room and the right (installed!) twin window is in the great room. The gaping hole is the entrance. We were still deciding on what we wanted to do for a door after our quest for an openable (hinged) sidelight fell through.
Here you can see where the dormer framing was finished off. The two smaller windows are bathroom windows. The bottom one was not on the original plan, but umm... I'm under no illusions that my sh*t doesn't stink.
Inside the great room looking from near the main entrance. Lots of windows. The plan originally only called for singles on the back wall (which Preethi is facing). We changed that to doubles. Additionally, there was not going to be any windows on the right side, which we thought was a bad idea in general and a travesty given the back yard. So we added the matching French doors flanked by singles. (Only had so much space coming back on that wall as there will be a fireplace sans chimney and needed some place for a TV)
Preethi and the dogs check out the sliding window in the kitchen.
One of the smaller windows for light in the great room. Eventually there will be 3 such windows (originally 2, but there was also originally a chimney).
One of the shower/ bath units dropped into place.
Another change to the plan, originally the space over the entrance was just closed off. But we noticed that there was more than enough overhead clearance to add a door to then use the space as a walk in closet. The original, adjoining walk-in closet may now be used for a kid's desk or maybe just more storage. Options are good and it's easier to build them in now than later.
A detail of the underside of the roofing transition from master bedroom roof to bumpout roof. No windows there yet, however...
Looking down into the greatroom from above (this will be closed off). Sorta like how Mike Tyson would flash before punching you in PunchOut, cyborg dogs' eyes will glow right before they pounce. Or maybe it's just red eye.
View of some of the supports for the roof. One of the many differences between a stick-built roof (do what you want with the shape) and a trellis roof (mostly prefab).
The "dining room" windows are quite large, 6'2, and they're triples (as opposed to singles or twins). Here's Preethi standing next to them and the hole where they'll be put in tomorrow. I say "dining room" because the room may or may not actually be used for dining. Right now we're thinking more along the lines of a formal living room, but we'll see. 
