Studs Everywhere

This is a view from the Master Bedroom down the hallway to the kitchen, and doorway onto the sun porch in the distance.  What, you say it just looks like a bunch of two by fours?  Yes, but the future walls are becoming more clear.  So let me try to walk you through the maze.

At the bottom of the picture you can see the the old oak hardwood floor.  On the right side of the floor near the bottom of the photo is the walk-in closet (with pocket door).  Running across the top above the edge of the old flooring you can see a new laminated beam that carries the weight of the edge of the existing roof. Then the hall turns to the right, past the new half-bath, and continues out to the kitchen.  But if you turn left at the end of the hardwood floor, you would enter the Master Bath. Does that make sense? 

 Looking from the living room, the new kitchen space is visible in the cut out area in the floor.  The kitchen will project about three feet into the former Dining Room/Living room rectangle.  For some unclear reason, the existing beam, visible at the top, did not extend all the way to the outside wall, requiring the supports visible on the left.  This coming week we expect a new, longer laminated beam to be installed.

Here is one end of the laminated beam in the Sun Porch.  It is very big and long!  I wonder how they will get it up into place?  Also visible is the framing for the new windows on the porch.  These are the windows with the view of the Chesapeake Bay, so they are as large as possible. 

We go out tomorrow for a doctor appointment.  We have lots of laundry to get done, and more rubble to throw down into the ravine.