Stairway to Heaven

There’s a feeling I get
In the pod for the guest
After the week of the leaving
In my thoughts I have seen
Risers, Treads through the trees
And the echoes of previous ladders
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

If there’s a bustle in your job site
Don’t be alarmed now,
It’s just the ringing of the nail gun
Yes there are two paths you can go by
To level two now
There’s still time to change the floor you’re on.
And it makes me wonder

Your head is humming and it won’t go
In case you don’t know
The 2-bys are calling you to join them.
Dear lady, can you hear the steps though
And did you know
Your stairway goes to the sleeping loft.

And we’re buuuuying a stairway to heaven.

With apologies to Mssrs. Page and Plant we are very excited that we finally have a stair to the second floor.  We were out of town and much was

accomplished in our absence. I think I will go away more often--much more fun to see huge changes. The guest pod stair and landing, sleeping loft knee wall, and closet framing all took form.  No more climbing ladders to get upstairs.

This is the artist's studio space with the sleeping loft above.  We can't wait for our first visitor!

The lower part of the upper roof was also framed and it is an unbelievable set of complex angles.  Kudos to Dwayne, Steve, and Myron for figuring this out!

This is the view down the gallery and you can see where the drop down roof forms a soffit for the library.  To the right we will have this amazing hall to the master suite with clerestory on both sides and a glass rail overlooking the living room below.  There is a built in bench at this spot at the top of the stairs (the ones that aren't there yet)

In other news they put the septic field in.  I was really pissed off at the amount of tree damage caused

and vented some to Leon and Myron.  It is difficult to stay mad too long in this place. The house seems to get more complicated and intricate every day yet it seems so settled here and feels very much like home.