A View From The Inside - First Floor

Right now the interior of the house resembles a Hollywood set from the outside... lots of framing, but no real substance.  It's still a bit hard to envision a kitchen or living room or how the bed will look in the bedroom.  But it is more real than blueprints.

The downstairs seems small because 1/4 of the overall footprint is a garage.  Still it really isn't that small.

This looks back from the dining area through the kitchen area to the pantry and powder rooms on the right and the hallway with a small closet on the left.  The kitchen is about 11 feet wide and 16 feet long on the exterior wall.  That's a lot of cabinets to hang.


The living room area on the left [facing the lake] has the dining area [an 8' wall with the window overlooking Ben's yard] and a wall where the white maple bookshelves will fill.

The lakeside has plenty of window area [those are 9' ceilings so the windows cover about a 10' wide by 7' high area].  We will have to trim some of the lower branches on the maple so we can see the lake, but the neat thing is that we can see right over the fence to the lower right.  The area is spanned by trusses so that the rooms are all open.

The right side [facing the lake] will have two narrower windows and the gas fireplace.  The opening is much larger in this picture than it will be when the unit is installed.  The fireplace will have blower and can be the heating source for most of the house on cool... not cold... days.

Pine building specified Jeld-Wen windows ... low-e and argon filled.  We hope they work well with that much area.  The walls are 2" x 6" construction to allow R-19 insulation plus whole-house wrapping.  The roof will have R-49 insulation.  Doors will be insulated fiberglass... including the large, lifting garage door.