I got the rare opportunity to spend about 3 hours on the land today by myself. It was a gorgeous sunny day and got up to about 85. I spent about an hour with a pick axe working on a trail down to the water--nothing like digging out rocks and roots to cure what ails you. I just kept walking around the house imagining what things will look like. For a guy that doesn't visualize well in 3D there is nothing like the real thing to get you charged up. I am discovering so many wonderful angles and views and connections. I have to give my wife serious kudos for the design on my new favorite spot in the house.
You have to use your imagination a bit but this is basically the view from our small breakfast nook in the kitchen. This small area is open to the second floor and she has placed an all glass window wall right where the two big trees are facing south and light will come streaming down onto our table.
I absolutely love the way the small pod is angled to the bridge. With the overhangs, bridge cantilever, and the new canopy there is a festival of angles
going on at this end of the house and I can't get enough of it.
I am not liking the house closing in. As the plywood sheathing and the Tyvek house wrap go up the transparency of the framing has evaporated. I knew this was coming but it was startling to see it happen in a single day.
The view of the middle of the giant beech tree from the south is now gone.
A whole lot of building wrap going on today--Tyvek Stucco Wrap on the pods and Tyvek Drain Wrap on the bridge. I have a feeling we are going to be looking at that for a while. I really like the canopies over the entrances. They started them Monday with the steel infrastructure through the walls.
At the end of last week they put the final decking down in the master suite and I was able to walk out on our bedroom floor for the first time.
On the lower right corner of the image above (where the ladder is) there will be a 12' long glass railing that will allow you to look down to the living and dining area below.
Next week I think they will start framing the walls of the double high space in the main pod.
Imagination rules the world.
--Napoleon Bonaparte
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