Huge progress in the last few days as the small pod is nearly completely framed and they have started to frame the walls of the bridge. The full height of the house is now apparent. Check out more framing photos on the sidebar.
The vertical scale is clear for the first time at the double high space at the North end of the guest pod.
The guest pod sleeping loft is turning out to be one of the sweetest spots in the house with views on 3 sides. 
Here it is a few days ago before the rest of the wall framing was up. There is a stair up to this level and then a small landing and then two more risers to get up to the level of the main gallery and the bathroom associated with this space. There will be a knee wall along the north side where you can look down below to the studio space. There are three clerstory windows facing 
east (one operable), gigantic windows to the north with a view to the creek and a very sizable window just at the stair landing facing west that allows views of the main house and the stream below as well as the entire bridge exterior. The loft is quite cozy and we are wrestling right now with how to get some decent storage in there and still have some clearance around the bed.
You can get a sense of the views at the NE corner both from ground floor and up in the loft:
Ellen repeatedly warns me that a psychological hard rain is gonna fall when the house gets actual walls and roofs and I won't be able to see everything from everywhere. Now it is just a wide open vista.
It is counterintuitive to welcome insecurity as a sign that something good is beginning. I have never greeted it as a friend. But I know that that is where the work is done, and premature comfort is a pretty good sign that nothing much is happening.
--Sean Kernan
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