The Verdict

No problem!! Pretty standard roof structure. Nothing super surprising. We had a engineer that hubby works with check over our proposed new structure and so it should stand up. (1.5 years later I still get nervous during a big windstorm and when we go out of town I'm certain we will come home to find our house laying in a heap on the ground. But we religiously check the corners of the walls and there are no cracks yet!)

We have varied a little bit from the proposed plans. You'll see pictures later on of the walk-in closet we added, we moved the refridgerator, we took the smaller closet out of the living room, and we haven't added the sliding wall yet.


Hopefully the section gives you an idea of what we did in the living room and bedroom. The section through the kitchen and study is a bit more complicated and I'll post pictures later on.

(Now obviously you are all thinking...hum...thats not what I imagined at all!! It is pretty simple...and even if it is tiny, it fits us perfectly!)

And with the swing of a hammer they're off!!

The second we saw this place we were ache-ing to see what the roof structure looked like. Perhaps we could have come up with a way to investigate this before moving in cause if we hadn't been able to alter it we would have been stuck with 6'-8" ceilings (the height of a standard door). But we took our chances and very soon after moving in hubby took a crow bar and hammer to the ceiling and climbed on up.

Carpet Wrestling

Okay - I know that most of you don't care but I want this to be THE ultimate source on our remodel. So here is one more thing about carpet and linoleum. (Trust me, it seems like I'm much more obsessed with flooring than I really am.)

One day, mid-December (2004), We went and helped some friends who were doing a pretty intense remodel. They were just doing finishing touches, including refinishing their floors. So of course we thought...Oh we can do that! (oooh, that attitude gets us in so much trouble.) So we went home and took up the carpet in the bedroom. Instead of a pad we found older carpet underneath (probably a big factor in allergies my hubby had been suffering) and under that, of course, linoleum. It had come up so easily in the living room that we got started immediately on the stuff in the bedroom. We actually thought we would be sanding the floors that weekend!!

So now, a year and a half later, we have about a fifth of the lino scrapped up in the bedroom and have decided to take up all the old wood and put in new wood. Live and learn!

Anyway - here is a picture of Mr. Tough Guy wrestling with the carpet.















And me in my oh so cute breathing mask and my sexy grey sweats. (Go Vandals!)