Bits and Pieces

Here's a few more pix from the final bits of framing done this week.

Here is the roughed-in balcony off the master bedroom. The temporary stairs will be there for quite a while as the new stairwell (transitioning between old and new construction) won't be cut in for another month or maybe two. The balcony will eventually be closed on all three sides.

Below the balcony will be a small patio area, available by French doors from the office area.
Mystery room - there was a teeny, tiny closet space about 3x4 feet at the SW corner of the 2nd floor. It appears to have been a bathroom, as there's a filled-in hole in the floor and unpainted area on wall where tank must have been - check out the bottom of that door (grin). Also, it is directly above the first floor bathroom. Since there would be nothing but dead space between the old exterior wall and new construction, we are going to build it out and have a much larger closet space there. It would be well-suited as a broom and linen closet for the two existing bedrooms upstairs, which are getting only cosmetic fixes during the remodel.
The aggregate to go beneath the Garage floor was compacted in preparation for the concrete pour which occurred Thursday of this week.
Finally, this is a shear wall, the only interior wall that the framers "filled in". This is between the Garage/Laundry Nook and the office in back of first floor.
Concrete garage floor has been poured but is now covered in paper to minimize damage from future work.

I should post again today to show progress since midweek. As I write this, the garage door is being installed!