Internal Framing - the "Grand Staircase"

HI!

The work on the outside of the house moves along. The outer skin is going on, and some of the internal framing is starting to go up. The internal stuff goes pretty slowly, since it's all detail work. The most interesting and intricate might be the curved staircase that goes up from the entry level to the main floor.

Here's a look at the back side of the staircase as seen from the main entry (on the left side of the picture). This wall had to be framed in pretty quickly since the staircase is pre-manufactured offsite and brought to the home for fitting into the space. Where the support post is will be the front wall of the staircase, curving up to ceiling level, with the bottle wall in the hallway. Deb's collecting colorful and exotic bottles for the wall - give her a call!

Behind the wall is the mechanical room - furnace, water heater, etc.

Right now, we're working on the landscaping plan, getting together a door schedule (which doors go where, which have transoms, how high, how wide, etc.), specifying the sauna, looking for a manufacturer for a teak shower and sauna floor, and moving from there to the electrical diagrams.

The main floor of the house is going up. We talked with Juan the Foreman today and he wanted to start putting in the ceiling joists, so we had to recalculate the position of the beams that visitors will see from the main floor, so that the clerestory windows (high windows, above eye sight line that allows light to enter) actually, 12" x 12" glass blocks we placed correctly between them.