Day 121 - Baby It's Cold Outside

125,000 BTU/hr of Tropical Delight

Cold as in -16 F as I type this!!!  Yeah, just a bit chilly.  However, thanks to Mr. Heater, Tom, Travis & Al were able to stay toasty warm & keep working today (OK, toasty may be a bit of an exaggeration).  The 2nd floor is completely framed in.  It looks like a jungle of 2x4's upstairs. 

Welcome to the Jungle

The kid's bedrooms are going to look really cool with their sloped ceilings & shelves above the closets.  We're also going to have an extra shelf by the vault in the master bedroom.  I'm not exactly sure what we'll put up there, but that's what nick knacks are for, right?  Just don't ask me to dust!  :-)

Kid's Bedroom Closet & Vault

The Master closest will have a 2nd doorway in it that leads to another storage space.  Normally this would be all unfinished attic space, but due to the SIPs, we can use it as heated storage.  Pretty cool.

It's a closet within a closet!

The mudroom staircase leading above the garage has also been framed in.  They had to move the door to the top of the stairs & build a platform at the bottom to make things fit correctly (Another necessary tweak due to the SIPs).

Don't they look inviting?

There will be a set of lockers up against the side of the stairs to unload all of our junk as we come into the house.  With the stairs in place, Emily is a bit concerned that the Mudroom will feel cramped with 5 people trying to put away winter clothes at the same time.  Personally, I think it will be great.  However, if Emily ends up giving me that "I told you so look" when everything is finished, it won't be the first or last time!

In other news, Extreme Panel shot me an email this past week asking for some pictures.  They want to use a picture of our house in their new brochures.  Pretty cool, eh?

Have a great weekend & stay warm!