Stairs - kitchen, basement

Ended up saving a lot of room in the kitchen. Here's a view in the kitchen looking up into the living room toward the front of the house:

Looking down in the above pic you're in the basement. Here's the stairs up from the basement into the kitchen. On the right will be the bathroom. On the left will be the laundry and HVAC:

Exterior shot

The siding is 90% done now. Take a look:

Siding, stairs

The siding's almost finished. The back is completely done, and it looks real good. The upper part of the front is all that's left - should be done by tomorrow.

The stairs from the living from the kitchen, and from the kitchen into the lower level, are going in today. We've pushed the stairs back a little. This will give more room in the kitchen for a table and chairs, while still leaving 18 feet of length (rather than 20) in the living room.

Where we're at

These are some of the main things that still need to be done:
1. build stairs from living room down to kitchen, and from kitchen down to basement
2. electrical
3. run the plumbing lines into the kitchen and up to the top floor bathroom
4. run the water lines
5. duct work
6. main staircase from living room to bedrooms
7. drywall
8. finish the siding
Those are just the big items. Never ending .

Back wall, kitchen

They demolished the entire wall and reframed it:

Closed it up, then inserted the patio door and transom window. It lets in a lot more light than before.

Front porch, rebuilt

In one day.

Front porch, demolished

To be rebuilt:

Framing

Things are moving along. The framers knocked out the whole back wall (the kitchen) and reframed it. With the patio doors and transom window it will let in a good amount of light. They also raised the kitchen floor to make it more of a split level. (I took pictures. Will post later.) The down side is that the back is an addition, so it is smaller, and with it framed out it will only be about ten feet wide.

Unfortunately the front bumped out area, which is also an addition, is in bad shape, as per the roofer. So we're going to tear it all out and reframe it as well. I'm past the point of obsessing over every little complication. As long as it's all fine once it's finished.