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Dormers built, building sheeted, roof 90% on. Waiting on windows and siding.

Dormers in. Misty Mountain today!

If that becomes an issue I'll simply extend the apartment 4 more feet and absorb the stairwell.

How the weather in Houston? Chilly here right now. Unfortunately.

Eventually. I'm a bit ******* right now.

Not much of a worry here.

No kids. All grown and out. Thus the massive master bedroom (most of upstairs). An "occasional" guest room in the attic is planned or a "bunk house" by the garden (aka shack). I/we are retired. We're downsizing from a high-tax 4 bedroom 3,100 sq. ft. house with 36x60 shop on 1.5 acres on...

A great question! I chose to put the stairs in the shop. You go out the man door on the 1st floor and walk up the stairs. I did this for several reasons: 1) Stairs are a terrible waste of living space 2) Stairs in the shop can be "rough framed". Stairs in living space have to be a work of art...

I go back and forth on this. Your point is well taken. I am considering a pocket door between bath and closet. The problem I have is two doors into the walk in closet means lots of lost space, and making it so you have to go through the bath to get to the closet makes the closet inaccessible if...

Big day. In addition to the roof sheeting we got septic in and an RV dump station 125' away trenched in. Moving along I'd say!

Roof sheeted. Dormers going in tomorrow. You can see how large the attic will be in one of the shots. Very pleased.

Wanted the main area for family / friend gatherings downstairs. Seems awkward to walk path the master bedroom upstairs to the family room. Also, what you do not see on the plans is a large wrap around patio that will go out the east side and wrap around to the front on the north. It will be...

Thought about that. We had a previous house setup like that.

:beer: We have a final floor plan for the living quarters. See attached! Note that North is down. I must have been wishing I was in Australia when I drew these. :bounce:

All walls up, trusses set. Second floor in. Monday we sheet it. We've already begun moving.

Yeah. We did.

All the walls are framed. This morning we're setting trusses. The second story of the apartment floor joists have to span 21' without any support.We chose Boise Cascade BCIs for the apartment second story floor joists on 12" centers. Should make for a nice stiff floor.

Tons of progress framing today! woot! Check out Jason's Free walking at 17 feet !!!!

More progress this morning.

Thank goodness we're finally out of the dirt. Walls are going up! Today I also ordered the tankless water heater and finalized the design for the dormers over the shop in the attic. Garage doors and flush mount openers were also ordered today.