Taking Shape

The framing phase is fun.  You have already moved from your imagination to blueprints, but then you see if what you agreed to on paper is what you envisioned ... or worse ... or better.

The weather has been fighting us lately, but the house is taking shape.  Once the second floor was framed and the roof trusses put in place, we saw what it would look like ... and we liked it a lot.

As you can see from this view, there is a "stepped" side that adds some architectural interest.  This was necessary because the lot line on that side runs on a diagonal due to the curve of the lake.  We would have encroached on the neighbor's property without the "steps" or would have had to make the house narrower overall.

As I said, the weather has been typically Michigan for the fall... rain, wind, and changeable.  Check out this video from my iPhone as the crew tries to hoist the shingles on the roof in a 30 mph wind.   You could not have gotten me on that roof.